Democrats, Media Get Panicky As Kamala Harris’ ‘Momentum’ Stalls
Despite proof over the last several weeks that Kamala Harris’ media/polling honeymoon is over, everywhere you look, there have been Democrats and media types proclaiming that she has all the momentum down the homestretch while her opponent, Donald Trump, is allegedly struggling to keep up.
But the facts are what they are, and even some in the media and on the left seem to have come to terms with this as the opportunity window narrows closer to Election Day.
Exhibit A, via The Hill:
Democrats’ nerves are at an all-time high.
Two months ago — even a month ago — they were feeling bullish about Vice President Harris’s prospects of defeating former President Trump.
But now, with less than a month to go until Election Day, they’re increasingly worried about a number of issues plaguing the Democratic nominee’s campaign.On Tuesday, there was grumbling from some Democrats about the vice president’s interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”There’s also concern on everything from the static poll numbers in the race to the vice president’s messaging and even her standing with men — not just white men but Black and Hispanic men, too.
The New York Times echoed the Dem panic in a piece they published Saturday about new Siena/NYT polling that shows Harris has failed to close the gap with black voters:
Nearly eight out of 10 Black voters nationwide said they would vote for Ms. Harris, the poll found, a marked increase from the 74 percent of Black voters who said they would support Mr. Biden before he dropped out of the race in July. But Mr. Biden won 90 percent of Black voters to capture the White House by narrow margins in 2020, and the drop-off for Ms. Harris, if it holds, is large enough to imperil her chances of winning key battleground states.[…]Ms. Harris is no doubt on track to win an overwhelming majority of Black voters, but Mr. Trump appears to be chipping away broadly at a longstanding Democratic advantage. His campaign has relied on targeted advertising and sporadic outreach events to court African American voters — especially Black men — and has seen an uptick in support. About 15 percent of Black likely voters said they planned to vote for the former president, according to the new poll, a six-point increase from four years ago.
Here are some other examples of the panic:
Dem strategist Simon Rosenberg is saying don’t believe polling narratives, that there is a right-wing polling conspiracy to “flood the zone“:
The Democrat panic is so pronounced that CNN numbers guru Harry Enten made mention of it during a Friday segment where he referred to the “bedwetting” underway in Dem circles:
BERMAN: When you compare this to four years ago, what does it look like?ENTEN: Yes. So, let’s take a look, and we’re going to look at an average across these three states, right? Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, an average on October 11th. What do you see? Well, if you look eight years ago, Hillary Clinton was way out in front in an average of these three. She was up by eight. You go four years ago, Joe Biden was up by an average of seven points across these three Great Lake battleground states. You come today, it’s just a one-point advantage for Kamala Harris across these three Great Lake battleground states. So, Kamala Harris, at least in the polling, is doing considerably worse than Biden or Clinton. And of course, Clinton lost in all three of these states, and Joe Biden barely won in all three of these states. So, when you see Harris up by just a point across these three, I think that this is really the type of thing that gets Democrats really to worry, John, because the simple fact is Kamala Harris, is doing considerably worse than either Biden or Clinton was.
Watch:
The “media blitz” isn’t helping. The aggressive pushes for the male vote aren’t helping. The hurricane photo ops aren’t helping. Kamala Harris has really got to be praying for an October Surprise at this point.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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