Kamala Harris did not receive any post-convention bump in the polls after she was coronated as the Democrat nominee last month. The Planned Parenthood mobile abortion van in the back parking lot at the DNC was more popular than her.
Kamala spent 40 days preparing for her first on-camera interview and that didn’t help her either. Now the campaign is making moves that smack of incredible desperation. It’s so bad that it looks as if the people running her campaign have already given up and are conceding the race to President Donald Trump.
The Harris campaign and the DNC suddenly dumped $25 million into down-ballot races this week. That’s never happened this early in a presidential race before. Presidential campaigns typically try to hang onto all their cash until mid-October before doling out a small amount to down-ballot races.
For example, in 2020, Joe Biden’s campaign and the DNC gave $1 million to Senate Democrats and $5 million to House Democrats. That didn’t happen until mid-October in 2020, according to FEC filings.
No presidential campaign has ever handed out a huge sum of cash like this right after Labor Day. They always hang onto the cash until the last minute in case there are unexpected surprises they need to adjust to.
The Harris team has also radically shifted the campaign schedule for the principals. What they should be doing right now is parking Kamala’s butt in the swing states until election day. Instead, they seem to have bailed on the swing states. They’re campaigning in what should be reliable blue states.
Kamala’s most recent appearance was in New Hampshire. Weirdo Tim Walz is campaigning in his home state of Minnesota. Doug Emhoff the Nanny Impregnator is campaigning in Virginia.
Kamala Harris was leading Trump by 10 points in the polls in Minnesota before she picked Tim Walz as her running mate. Walz is so hated by his own constituents that Kamala’s lead dropped to only 5 points after she selected him.
Democrats have won Minnesota in the last 12 presidential elections. There’s only two months left until the election, so that should be the last state that they’re worried about right now.
Campaigning in Virginia is slightly understandable at least. Gov. Glenn Youngkin has mandated paper ballots only and the votes must be counted on machines that are not hooked to the internet. The last time a Republican won Virginia was George W. Bush in 2004. With a fair election on paper ballots, Trump could reasonably expect to flip that state.
Sending Kamala to New Hampshire, which is a reliably blue state that has only 4 electoral votes, makes no sense at all. Unless…
As we reported last week, liberal pollsters are having to oversample Democrats by as much as 25% just to make it look like Kamala Harris is in a neck-and-neck race with President Trump.
In the months leading up to the coup against Joe Biden, pollsters were sampling only Democrats to figure out who they should replace him with. Kamala always came in dead last in all those polls. Everyone hates her. She was always trailing Trump by 20 or more points in every poll when Democrat voters were asked who they preferred to replace Biden. No one wanted her to run.
But now we’re supposed to believe that she’s 20% more popular because she’s the nominee.
Donald Trump has always outperformed the polls by 3 to 5% on election day. It’s hard to imagine that the Democrats’ internal polling, which the public rarely gets to see, are showing Kamala Harris in the lead or even close to it. Especially with the moves that the campaign is making right now.
The most likely scenario is that the polling is so bad that the Democrats see the writing on the wall. They believe that Kamala is going to lose so badly to Trump that all they can do now is try to staunch the bleeding. That would explain why they just dumped a huge amount of cash into down-ballot races. If they can’t stop Trump from winning, maybe they can slow his agenda down if they save enough House and Senate seats.
It would also explain why they’re campaigning in reliably blue states at this late date. They don’t want the Trump victory that they’re anticipating turning into an absolute shellacking. Can you think of any other reason why the Harris campaign is behaving this way?
