United States: Democrats, who had previously expressed optimism regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, are now very uneasy with the party’s choice to pressure President Joe Biden to resign.
Before her coronation, Harris received exactly zero Democratic primary votes, and she had one of the lowest approval ratings of any vice president in American history.
It wasn’t until the mainstream media started publishing favorable articles about Harris that her popularity with voters increased.
“Everything is deadlocked, and the composition of the electorate is unknowable, and there are so many things that are unprecedented,” said Jamal Simmons, a Democrat strategist who served as Harris’s communications director until last year. “So it’s just hard to know,” Simmons told the Hill. “If you’re not nervous, you’re not paying attention.”
After Biden endorsed Harris, Democratic strategist Anthony Coley—who worked in the Biden-Harris administration—admitted that the party was highly nervous.
“Now that the sugar high is gone, people have realized what Kamala Harris has said from the start, which is that she is the underdog,” Coley said about Harris’s lagging polling numbers in swing states. “This is going to be a fight. … These numbers are just so stubborn.”
When Harris informed The View on Tuesday that she would not change the disastrous policies of the previous four years, it completely upended her campaign.
Although Harris had put a lot of effort into projecting herself as the candidate of change, she undermined her well-crafted talking points in a single interview with Democratic allies.
During the administration, there was a general 20% increase in costs, an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, attacks on Israel by Hamas and Iran, an influx of illegal migrants along the southern border, and the nation experienced the fatal retreat of the Afghans.
The whiplash intensified when Steve Colbert questioned Harris on CBS’s “Late Show” about how she would differ from Biden.
Harris responded, “Obviously, I’m not Joe Biden.” Breitbart News noted that Harris did not provide a precise explanation for her decision not to rule like Biden.
Hill was informed by a Democratic strategist that her interviews had not gone well.
“We all knew this would be hard,” a Democrat consultant explained. “It’s going to come down to the wire. No one knows how this will end. That’s almost the scariest part.”
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