Kamala Harris thought that everything was going her way.
She suddenly found herself facing a much different race than she anticipated.
And Kamala Harris and her media allies made one fatal mistake that could destroy her campaign.
Kamala Harris peaked too soon
Vice President Kamala Harris surged during the honeymoon period for her campaign after she replaced President Joe Biden in July.
She was the beneficiary of an unprecedented media propaganda campaign that showered her with billions of dollars in free media with their positive coverage and created Kamala-mania.
That vaulted her into a lead in the polls in August that Democrats thought would be insurmountable.
Kamala was supposed to get a bounce for the Democratic National Convention at the end of August.
The media also declared her the winner of the September 10 Presidential debate on ABC.
But polls show that the initial sugar high of Kamala’s campaign in August has stalled out.
She had a five-point lead over former President Donald Trump in an NBC News poll taken after the debate.
The same NBC News poll found that Trump and Kamala were tied at 48% a month later.
Democrats are admitting she’s running out of steam and that her campaign may have peaked too soon.
Former Arizona State Representative Cesar Chavez (D) warned that the energy around Kamala’s campaign had dropped.
“The momentum around Vice President Harris was so loud very early on, I felt the energy could die down closer to when early ballots dropped,” Chavez said. “At least here, in Arizona, our early ballots dropped yesterday, and I think the campaign needs to find a way to bring this thing home.”
Kamala’s campaign signals it’s worried
Kamala’s handlers kept her away from the press as much as possible but there was a sudden shift from the campaign.
She went on a friendly media blitz that included 60 Minutes, Late Night with Stephen Colbert, Howard Stern, The View, and others.
If her previous campaign strategy of avoiding the press was working, she would have stuck with it.
Kamala made the fatal mistake of saying that she couldn’t think of one thing differently she would have done than Biden on The View.
“Before this week, Harris had been able to distance herself from all the things that have gone wrong in the Biden administration: chaos in the Middle East, the border, and even all this recent misinformation going around about FEMA and the hurricane recovery funding,” an anonymous Democrat operative told the Washington Examiner.
Biden is deeply unpopular and more than 60% of voters think that the country is on the wrong track.
“Unfortunately, that changed when she was unable to give concrete examples of how a Harris administration would be different in these interviews, and it completely undermines her ‘A New Way Forward’ strategy,” the operative added.
Kamala has been trying to distance herself from Biden but that confession undermined her argument.
Her campaign has raised more than $1 billion, but she’s slipping in swing state polling despite flooding the airwaves and mailboxes with ads.
“I think that many of us had hoped that [Kamala] would get in this race and blow Trump out of the water while campaigning like the underdog to motivate our voters to get to the polls,” a former White House aide stated.
“Now, it’s anyone’s game. The number of states that are in play this cycle, especially as we reach the final stretch, is a major obstacle, and the vice president is actually an underdog against a convicted felon,” the aide continued. “It’s alarming, and anyone that says they aren’t concerned is lying.”
Kamala Harris’ campaign is being undone by what sank her 2020 Presidential campaign and made her the most unpopular Vice President in history.
The more voters get to see her, the less that they like her.
