“I’m amazed that we even got close,” said one Democratic official close to the [Kamala Harris] campaign. “The campaign has been broken since the beginning.”

“If you believe that campaigns matter — and if you look at Tammy Baldwin, Jacky Rosen, Ruben Gallego and even Bob Casey in many ways — if you believe that campaigns matter and that’s why the results are a little different, then you have to say that she lost because of her campaign,” said an operative close to the campaign.

“The other way to do it is, maybe campaigns don’t matter at all,” they said. “Then why are we even campaigning at all on anything?”