Harris campaign is as inauthentic as she is
By
Zachary Faria
October 14, 2024 2:58 pm
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Political campaigns typically take on the character of the candidate, so it is no surprise that Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is as inauthentic as she is.
Harris’s honeymoon period is over, and her polling is coming back down to earth as voters start to see her as the same political mediocrity that Democratic presidential primary voters saw in 2020. Harris is now trailing former President Donald Trump in the RealClearPolitics polling average in every swing state except Wisconsin, which liberal pundits are now warning is because of Harris’s lack of enthusiastic support from minority men, to which Democrats are accustomed.
Harris’s team has launched an overt campaign to win those men back, and it is as inauthentic as she is. It includes Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), her running mate, pretending he is a masculine macho hunter while seemingly forgetting how to use a shotgun. In the middle of this effort, Harris took to a media blitz full of interviews that don’t appeal to men with outlets that are already in her pocket, including a sit-down with whiny liberal Howard Stern, an appearance on a women’s sex podcast, and a discussion with left-wing activist “comedian” Stephen Colbert.
All the while, Harris is clumsily trying to portray herself as a centrist while walking back every radical left-wing position she held during her 2020 campaign. Harris has consistently avoided media that would offer mild pushback, even ducking liberal Time magazine. (Harris has only now finally agreed to a sit-down with Fox News on Wednesday.) Harris has also tried to shoehorn herself into hurricane preparations in Florida, staging phone calls with friendly Democratic leaders to make it look as if she is presidential.
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