When Kamala Harris took the stage at a rally in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, she shared the stage with a crowd of quishy Republicans. The defections included former Reps. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Barbara Comstock and Denver Riggleman of Virginia, Chris Shays of Connecticut, Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania and Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma. Also present were former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan and “more than 100 Republicans.”
According to Pennsylvania Democrats, Kamala should take a victory lap first and try to round up the Republican vote using people who are irrelevant to the Republican Party Focus on winning state.
Leading Democrats in Pennsylvania fear Vice President Kamala Harris’ operation is being mismanaged in the country’s biggest battleground state.
They say some Harris aides lack relationships with key party figures, particularly in Philadelphia and its suburbs. They complain that they have been excluded from events and that surrogates have not been used effectively. And they have urged Harris aides in private meetings to do more to attract voters of color.
Some even point the finger at Harris’ Pennsylvania campaign manager Nikki Lu, who they say has no in-depth knowledge of Philadelphia, where the vice president needs to raise turnout to win.
“I have concerns about Nikki Lu,” said Ryan Boyer, who is one of the most powerful union leaders in the state as the first Black chairman of the city’s influential Construction Trades Council. “I don’t think she understands Philadelphia.”
There are many warning signs in this article. Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker is not being used effectively as a deputy. There is an admission that Harris is losing black men. Local Democratic representatives complain that they are being barred from campaign events in their own turf. State Democrats claim that not only are voting-rich minority communities being ignored and marginalized, but that the Trump campaign is doing a much better job of doing it articulate why they should win.
The fact that Harris’ Pennsylvania campaign manager, Nikki Lu, is seen as the cause of the problems is the strongest evidence of the extent of the problems Democrats see in Pennsylvania. see “Running Out of Time”: Shades of 2019 at Kamala Harris’ Pennsylvania headquarters as panic sets in.
Democratic lawmakers, advocacy groups and activists in Pennsylvania are sounding the alarm Harris-Walz campaign Operation in the Commonwealth – as polls show enthusiasm for the party’s candidacy has dropped significantly compared to four years ago.
There are less than three weeks left until Election Day, according to sources at the Post and other media outlets “broadcast” by the Republicans. as the two parties battle for the Keystone State’s 19 crucial electoral votes.
An aide said Wednesday that the vice president and her allies are failing to reach nonwhite voters who helped outperform President Biden in his birth state in 2020.
If, as I suspect, Trump wins Arizona, North Carolina and Georgia, he will win Pennsylvania takes him to the White House. In this scenario, Harris must top the standings of remaining states to win. Harris is ahead in current polls 0.5 percentage points. On October 17, 2020, Biden led Trump by 6.8 points; he continued win by 1.2 pointsthe latest polls show that he is up 5 points. At the same point in the 2016 campaign, polls showed that Hillary! increased by 6.5 pointsand she lost 0.5 points. The latest polls in Pennsylvania showed her beating Trump by 2.8 points. This suggests that Trump is underperforming in the polls by between 5 and 7 points, and the way the Democrats are operating suggests they are aware of this.
Kamala’s last two rallies in Pennsylvania – Erie and Washington Crossing – only make sense if the state is locked down by voting in Philadelphia, the mystery vote ends at 2 a.m. and you’re trying to raise the popular vote. Given how they are perceived by Democrats in Pennsylvania, these rallies can only be explained in the context of a candidate served by a staff afraid of giving her bad news.
