Kamala Harris has a big problem. Since launching in the race in July, the former 2020 presidential candidate has been challenging almost all of her previous positions on issues ranging from” Medicare for All” to” climate change.” She’s been forced to do this because America, for the most part, hates militancy in officials.
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She claims that after talking to voters for three years and realizing her mistakes, she changed her mind about issues like her plan to ban fracking and expand Medicare insurance to anyone who wants it.
It’s the least convincing argument for flip-flopping always.
Harris has left behind her left flank in her attempt to run to the middle, and the radical left is n’t happy about that at all.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders stated in an interview on Thursday that” the truth of the matter is that there are hell of a lot more working-class people who may vote for Kamala Harris than there are traditional Republicans.”
Smith has been one of Harris’s most active caregivers, appearing several times on her behalf this month, mainly in rural areas where the nationalist information resonates the most.
” She has to start talking more to the demands of working-class people”, Sanders said. I wish this had occurred two months ago. It is what it is”.
She relies heavily on the standard Democratic base, which includes young people who are increasingly leaning left and African Americans. Harris ‘ staff is aware that some liberals are offended by her rhetoric, particularly given her aid for Israel’s fight against Hamas. But the battle sees a significant opportunity to expand her alliance by winning over disgruntled Democrats, particularly college-educated voters in the world’s suburbs, who are uncomfortable about Trump.
From the Harris party’s perspective, the rely on moderate Republicans at this moment is simply a matter of arithmetic.
The Democrat’s campaign analyses that 10 % of swing-state voters are still undecided or ibid, according to an staffer who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss inside plan. Of that 10 %, some 7 % are considered” Cheney Republicans” who are receptive to messages attacking Trump, the aide said.
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Those “persuadables” are n’t going to be persuaded by” Harris, the moderate”, claims Sanders and other radical left activists. Trump’s advertising campaign, which portrays Harris as a dramatic communist, has begun to resonate with her, so the applicant is running far from her prior statements on a wide range of subjects.
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The event strategy, which almost exclusively concentrates on Liz Cheney kumbaya optics, which depress the base right as voting begins and do n’t demonstrably win more swing voters than bread-and-butter issues, has an odd disconnect, according to Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
Trump is likely to win 85-90 % of Republicans no matter how hard Harris tries to separate the” NeverTrumpers” from the rest of the party. In this impression, Green is right. There are more seats available from pale, working-class voters than disgruntled Republicans.  ,
But is the way to attract them to navigate a far-left program?
Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of the democratic party Our Revolution, suggested that as many as 10 % of liberals may not vote for Harris because of their emotions. Some does not cast a vote at all, he said, while some may also help Trump. The former leader has called Cheney, a supporter of the U. S. invasion of Iraq, a” terrible war bird” as he tries to win over Muslim Americans in Michigan unhappy about the more than 42, 000 Palestinians killed in Israel’s Gaza offensive.
” We only want to raise a red symbol,” the statement read. Do n’t take the progressive movement for granted”, Geevarghese said. In the end, there must be an economical explanation. That’s the No. 1 thing that matters to electors”.
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In the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, socialists and communists shared the identical views on the white working class. The “economic argument” made by radical leftists does n’t resonate with many working-class folks. It did n’t back in the radical left’s heyday during the Great Depression, and it’s not resonating now.
We can only hope that Harris properly interprets and takes Bernie Sanders ‘ advice.