Democrats appeared to be in full panic mode as Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign crumbles in the final stretch of the 2024 election.
Harris has been told that her feel-good optics are not connecting with her base as President Donald Trump connects with American voters on real issues such as the economy, taxes, and immigration.
According to a new report from the Associated Press (AP), Democrats are warning the presidential nominee she needs to focus on bread-and-butter issues and drop the “Liz Cheney kumbaya optics.”
Democrats fear that Harris has become obsessed with winning over Republicans at the expense of her own party’s supporters.
Leaving those Democrat voters behind puts Harris’s entire campaign outcome at risk.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)is warning that the time has come for a change of course, speed, and direction in event strategy.
Sanders says Harris needs to focus on the needs that dominate around the family kitchen table.
“The truth of the matter is that there are a hell of a lot more working-class people who could vote for Kamala Harris than there are conservative Republicans,” Sanders told the AP in a Thursday interview.
Sanders claimed he’s been doing whatever he’s asked to help Harris win.
The senator has participated in two dozen Harris campaign-related events this month alone.
However, those events have mostly been in rural areas and none have been with Harris herself.
“She has to start talking more to the needs of working-class people,” Sanders said in the AP interview.
“I wish this had taken place two months ago. It is what it is.”
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee co-founder Adam Green praised Harris’s advertising team.
Green said the campaign team has been “smartly” investing hundreds of millions of dollars on ads focusing on grocery prices, taxing billionaires, and Social Security.
These are “things that both win swing voters and pump up the base,” Green said.
However, Green warns that “there’s been an odd disconnect between the campaign’s economic populist ad strategy and the event strategy that focuses almost exclusively on Liz Cheney kumbaya optics that depress the base right as voting begins and don’t provably win more swing voters than bread-and-butter issues.”
Meanwhile, Trump continues to make progress while Harris struggles and the Democrats scramble.
Trump is set to outline his formal closing message Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The 45th president’s message is expected to focus on average Americans’ dissatisfaction with the current direction of the country.
Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller told the AP that Harris, with her focus on Trump, is not talking about how she will make life better for the vast majority of everyday Americans.
“Kamala Harris broke the economy,” Miller said.
“She broke the border.
“President Trump very clearly is going to fix the economy and fix the border.”
Put simply, nobody knows exactly what Kamala Harris stands for.
