In the wake of Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to President-elect Donald Trump, her campaign team has provided a variety of excuses about who and what is to blame for her devastating defeat, with the national media being near the top of the list.

Former Biden White House aide Meghan Hays recently said that the Harris campaign's "blame game" was not focused in the "right direction" regarding pointing fingers at the media, according to The Hill.

Instead, Hays suggested the campaign itself bore some responsibility for media narratives they disliked by refusing to do any interviews for the first month of the VP's brief three-month campaign that began in the summer when Harris replaced President Joe Biden as the nominee.

Harris campaign blames media narratives for loss

Hays, who previously worked in the Biden White House as a director of message planning from 2021 through 2022, appeared on a Fox News panel on Friday and reacted to a podcast interview earlier in the week with a couple of top staffers from the Harris campaign.

During that "Pod Save America" conversation, Harris campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said the narrative that VP Harris was afraid to do media interviews was "completely bulls--t" and further complained that the interviews she did eventually do were "small and processy" and "dumb," as senior advisor Stephanie Cutter chimed in.

"They were not informing a voter who was trying to listen to learn more or to understand. And I’m not here to say that that, you know, the whole system was focused on us incorrectly," O'Malley Dillon added. "I’m just saying, like, again, of the things we need to explore as we move forward as a campaign and as a country, that does a disservice to voters."

The Harris campaign "have to blame somebody, I guess"

In response to what was said, Hays first praised her former Biden White House colleague O'Malley Dillon as "a very smart strategist, but I do think they are missing a little bit of the narrative here."

"She did not do an interview for the first 30-some days, I think that the media latched on to that, and then when they did ask her questions, it was more about why she wasn’t doing the interviews," Hays said. "But that, again, you’re playing into the narrative there, so I do think they missed the mark on this, I do think they could have had more of a local media strategy, they could have had more interviews that they did do."

"So I don't necessarily think that this blame game is set in the right direction either, but I understand that they are in a spot where they have to explain why they lost, so I understand why they have to blame somebody, I guess," she added.

Hays says Harris should have done more local media interviews

During a separate appearance on Fox News' "Special Report" on Thursday, Hays offered up a similar response to the same "Pod Save America" clip of O'Malley Dillon blaming the media in part for VP Harris' loss to President-elect Trump.

Hays said of the campaign, "I don't think they did interviews soon enough, I don't think they did enough local media, and I think that might have hindered their strategy."

"I think they got a lot of grief for not doing big media interviews, or big network interviews, and I don't necessarily think that they needed to," she continued, "because I think they should have done stuff like podcasts, like they were doing, but I think that local media was a huge missing piece of their strategy."

"So I'm not exactly sure what she is referring to in that piece, but some of the questions were more processey questions" -- such as why Harris hadn't done more interviews instead of about her economic plans -- "but I am a firm believer that they should have done more local media" to reach more voters, Hays added.

The problem with that, though, as fellow Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe pointed out in mid-October, is that the more the average American voter saw Harris doing media interviews, the more they realized they simply "don't like her" and, while they may not necessarily vote for Trump, they certainly weren't going to vote for Harris.