Where Trump and Harris are campaigning in the final stretch and why it shows one is terrified
The most important resource a candidate has is his or her time.Where they go, who they’re with, and what they say defines their sense of the race more than any spin their consultants offer.There’s only one conclusion that can be drawn from where they were last week and where they plan to be this week: Kamala Harris is running scared.With just weeks to go, a confident Democratic candidate would be reaching out to swing voters.
She would know her base is already locked up, allowing her to focus full time on attracting the voters she needs to put the race to bed.Harris instead spent the week courting the Democratic Party’s most historically solid demographic: blacks.African Americans typically back Democrats by massive, 80- to 85-point margins.But with polling averages showing her winning this crucial group by a mere 64 points, Harris hit the road to plead with and cajole blacks into returning to their historic home.She appeared in Erie, Pa., last Monday to appeal to blacks and followed it up with appearances in the heavily black cities of Detroit and Philadelphia. The onslaught continued with appearances in Milwaukee, home to Wisconsin’s black community, three locations in black areas of the Atlanta metro area and more visits to Detroit and Philadelphia.She even made a speech in a black church in Georgia, a staple of Democratic black outreach for decades, and gave interviews to noted black leaders such as Rev.
Al Sharpton and podcast host Charlamagne tha God.Nor is Harris done.She’s scheduled to campaign Thursday with Barack Obama in Georgia and Saturday with Michelle Obama in Michigan.She’s not solely focused on blacks this week, however.
She sprinted across three states Monday with Republican former Rep.Liz Cheney to attack Donald Trump on “democracy” in an appeal to GOP voters.One might have expected more of that if she were confident in her appeal to normally Democratic voters.
The fact she’s using a substantial amount of her time to staunch...