Democrats quietly panic over fraying Blue Wall, Harris campaign strategy: They are just not thinking
With two weeks left before the last votes of the 2024 presidential election are cast, some Democrats are beside themselves over Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign strategy, sources tell The Post.The last straw for some came Tuesday morning, when the Harris-Walz team announced that rather than hit up any of seven key swing states — which most polls show moving away from the Democratic ticket — Harris would travel to deep-red Texas to give a speech on abortion rights and stump with the party’s Senate candidate, Rep.Colin Allred (D-Texas).“They are not thinking ‘Blue Wall’ at all.
They are just not thinking,” one Democrat vented to The Post about the Texas trip.“Her press operation is that of a first-time congressional candidate running as a sacrificial lamb,” this person added.The “Blue Wall” refers to the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — all three of which have gone Democrat in every election between 1992 and 2020, with the exception of 2016, when Republican Donald Trump swept the board against Hillary Clinton.“I think her press team actually works for Trump,” the disgruntled Democrat added, noting that in their opinion the 45th president has “made a better case for himself than her.”While Michigan has been one of the best-polling states for Harris, according to public surveys, NBC News reported Tuesday that anxiety is growing inside the Democratic camp that the veep could lose the state’s 15 electoral votes — in part due to backlash over the Israel-Hamas war among one of the largest Arab American populations in the US.Just last month, Rep.
Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), who is locked in a tight race for Senate, was recorded telling donors that Harris, 60, was “underwater” in the Wolverine State.According to the Detroit Free Press, Trump has made 13 visits to Michigan so far this year, while Harris has made just nine since President Biden ended his re-election bid in July.
Most of Harris’ events have taken...