I’ve been saying for some time that Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and JD Vance must plan to fight to the end, fight for every single vote, and campaign as if they were trailing by 20 points in every current poll . Frankly, the Harris/Walz ticket should do the same thing, but Kamala Harris seems to be playing it safe — avoiding live events, open press conferences, town halls, and so on. Why? Some Democratic strategists are I’m a little worried about thisbut they may miss the obvious problem with their candidate.
Even as polls show the presidential race is a back-and-forth affair, Vice President Kamala Harris is running with a degree of risk aversion that some Democratic strategists and activists fear will prevent her from taking full advantage of the excitement surrounding her entry into the race in July could.
Up to this point, Harris has largely avoided revealing interactions with voters, such as town hall-style events or interviews with the media, which could provide a sense of her true self and make people more comfortable with her abrupt emergence at the top of the voter roll, these Democrats say .
And that’s the problem. Kamala Harris’ fault is not that voters lack a sense of their “authentic selves.” It’s the voters Do I have a sense of her “authentic self” and that’s proving a tough sell.
“They’re trying to keep them out,” Steve Shurtleff, a former Democratic speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, said of the Harris campaign. “It’s like watching your favorite Hollywood actor and then being on a talk show and not being able to even speak.”
“The president of the United States must be able to be on guard and answer questions at all times,” he added. “It’s so obvious she avoided the one-on-one interviews, and voters deserve better.”
She avoided the one-on-one interviews because every time she tried, no matter what softball questions were thrown at her so gently, she fell into trivialities and nonsensical word salads. Steve Shurtleff is right; The President of the United States must be alert, informed, informed, able and ready to answer questions at all times. Kamala Harris is none of those things. She’s been making phone calls for a living since she became California’s attorney general, and it’s proving too tough for her to break the habit.
See related: Has Kamala Harris ever actually answered even a direct question?
Democrats have had this level of support for nearly 40 years; Kamala just lost it
The polls may show a dead heat between Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, but if there’s one good reason to view the poll with suspicion, this is it. Donald Trump will stand in front of a group of reporters and answer unwritten, unverified questions. Agree or disagree with his answers, but he answers and never shies away from the press. The same goes for his vice president, JD Vance; maybe even more.
But Kamala Harris and Tim Walz? Her public appearances, even the carefully planned ones, are like watching a train full of dynamite burn into a dumpster. The apparatchiks Whoever is running the campaign knows this, as do most of them I’ve been in this place before.
Harris’ cautious public stance could be a holdover from President Joe Biden’s defunct campaign. Concerned that Biden, 81, might make a gaffe, he carefully controlled his campaign and circumscribed his public appearances. Many of the people who ran Biden’s campaign are working to elect Harris.
They kept Joe Biden out of sight because he was confused and confused. Many of the people who did this keep Kamala Harris out of sight because she is incompetent.
