Despite Jill’s confidence, senior campaign adviser David Plouffe later admitted on the Pod Save America podcast in late November 2024 that internal polling never showed Harris in the lead — a gap between public polls and the campaign’s private data.
The duo’s uneasy history dates to a 2019 debate confrontation over busing, and Jill has spoken bitterly about how Harris treated her husband. In her 2025 memoir "107 Days," Harris says she felt unsupported by the Biden inner circle and calls the decision to keep Joe Biden in the race, which she ties to Jill’s backing, “recklessness” in retrospect.