Harris focuses on winning over disaffected Republicans as the election draws near
Harris focuses on winning over disaffected Republicans as the election draws near
The Harris campaign believes Trump-skeptical Republicans are the secret pro-Harris voters who will win them the election. Team Trump thinks it’s a mirage.
Two months of courting Republicans did basically nothing for Harris's polling. That they think Mike Pence or Liz Cheney are influential Republicans kind of makes their hypothesis that there are secret defectors that don't get counted in polls extra suspect.
Yeah, it's a terrible strategy for a number of reasons. The big one isn't even that they can't be courted - they CAN. It's just that the thing that courts them isn't "we can be really Republican, too!" - it's actually progressive policy.
It turns out that being stridently pro-worker, pro-healthcare, pro-education, pro-small business, and pro-social safety are all incredibly popular stances with broad support. Time and time again, openly supporting these things draws Republican support. The noise that emerges online and in the outrage merchant pundit class is just that - noise, made up to try and steer the conversation.
Which is the big risk to doing any of this pro-worker stuff - it's mostly about Fox News or the talk show host nutjobs branding it as evil and starting a propaganda war about it, and the rest of the media world just following along like insipid stenographers.
It's a branding war, basically, the Overton window doesn't need to shift further right at all.
There was a video by "More Perfect Union" where they went around a Trump rally asking what they wanted from a president. Surprisingly, they wanted more taxes for the rich and expanded worker's rights.
So yeah, I bet that appealing to conservative talking points doesn't work at all. No wonder that Tim Walz is pretty popular in his state on both sides, considering that he is pretty pro union and progressive.
Harris has lost 1.2% of the vote since Oct 1, so whatever she is doing isnt working.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/?ex_cid=abcpromo
It's fun watching the people who screamed that they weren't going to vote for any Dem scream louder when the Dems try to pick up votes from people who were going to vote for Trump.
They aren't going to pick up any votes from people who were going to vote for Trump... If they didn't get it by now, they aren't magically going to get it this week... Meanwhile she's alienating millions of young/progressive people who she could have gotten to vote for her by... (Checks notes) Not supporting genocide
“Unilaterally halt 70 years of treaties, force a foreign country to obey your will, seize unlawful control of our military, and do it all in a few weeks while campaigning, all as VP” is quite the tall order to all of anyone just in exchange for votes that, let’s be honest, you weren’t going to give anyway.
If you’re going to threaten to stand aside and allow someone way worse to take over, and those are your criteria, then this is just online noise you’re making and not genuine at all.
If you’re looking for something less, such as statements - she’s made them. They’re pretty clear about being about stopping the genocide. So even in that direction, if it isn’t enough, then again this is just online noise you’re making, and not genuine at all.
You just don’t care.
Democrats keep fucking it all up. You don't go after republicans. You go after your own god damn base for the first time in modern history. The left isn't voting because nobody represents them.
Represent them, they'll vote, and then you'll win, because those are your people sitting elections out constantly.
Arnold just endorsed her FFS. Just give it up, you were wrong. Trump's a con man and a loser. Don't be a loser.
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