Report: Democrats Are Panicking About Kamala Harris
Matt Margolis | 12:39 PM on October 07, 2024
The final weeks before Election Day are simultaneously invigorating and terrifying. As smaller margins increasingly dictate elections, the final weeks could be pivotal in determining the outcome. Kamala Harris has largely played things safe since becoming the nominee, and while that may have helped her in the beginning, Democrats are starting to worry this strategy has become a problem.
Nearly two dozen Democrats told Politico that they’re worried that Harris’s overly cautious, risk-averse strategy might hurt her campaign as it heads into the final 30 days. They believe her reluctance to hold more substantive interviews and her light campaigning schedule could prove to be a significant liability in the closing stretch of the race.
“There’s a time at which you just have to barnstorm these battlegrounds,” former Obama advisor David Axelrod told the outlet. “These races are decathlons, and there are a lot of events, and you have to do all of them because people want to test you.”
“It’s the most difficult oral exam on the planet for the most difficult job, and part of that is just that spontaneous — town halls, all kinds of interviews, and not just friendly interviews. OTRs where you interact in a substantive way with people, all of those things are valuable,” Axelrod continued. “And I would be doing them if I were her.”
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