How Kamala Harris is doing everything possible to lose pivotal Pennsylvania

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have a Pennsylvania problem.Harris, her team and national Democrats finally know it.But does their knowledge come too late? And can they fix it?With his disastrous debate performance in June, President Biden showed the nation he’s old, floundering and not up to the job.

Polls confirmed it.National Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, along with Team Harris, sprang into action.Something had to be done.

The “Democratic Politburo” decided — on behalf of 75 million Democratic voters — what the party’s best option was.Out with “Uncle Joe,” and in with the new and improved product: Kamala Harris.What Harris and national Democrats didn’t realize was while this may have been a necessary national strategy, it was a horrible Pennsylvania strategy.

In 2024, if you want to win the presidency, you need Pennsylvania — especially if you’re a Democrat.The first big blunder for Harris and her team was taking the Keystone State for granted.“Uncle Joe” is from Scranton and loves to tell stories about his family’s days there.

That has helped secure thousands of blue Democratic votes in an increasingly red northeastern Pennsylvania.Take away Biden, and San Francisco Harris has little chance of keeping those voters.Add to it that for three decades, voters in Philadelphia and its suburbs saw Biden as our “third senator.” He showed up at the Navy Yard, at ballgames, at ribbon cuttings — you name it.

In 2020, when the GOP told voters Biden had become a captive of the “far left,” that was a hard sell in southeastern Pennsylvania.It’s a much easier one in 2024 with Harris at the top of the ticket.Next, after weeks of courting Gov.

Josh Shapiro as her running mate, Harris rejected him for Gov.Tim Walz of Minnesota — the state that gave us Gov.

Jesse “The Body” Ventura and “Saturday Night Live”’s Al Franken as senator.Another misstep for Harris.While Shapiro isn’t Biden, he is well known ...