The final weeks of the 2024 campaign see Kamala Harris swimming upstream.
Polls in the battleground states, as well as the early voter numbers, show the momentum began shifting to Donald Trump at the beginning of October.
And Bill Clinton’s pollster told Megyn Kelly this fatal flaw will sink Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris lacks an argument
Those words from the summer proved prophetic.
Doug Schoen was Bill Clinton’s pollster and knows what it takes to win at the national level as Schoen helped guide Clinton’s successful strategy of triangulation where Clinton stole Republican issues on crime, school uniforms, and welfare reform to fool voters into thinking he was some kind of moderate.
Schoen told Megyn Kelly that he agreed with her that Kamala Harris’ resume contained no record of achievement and now that the sugar high of her entering the race wore off Americans are starting to view her as an empty vessel.
“Yeah, I don’t think there’s anything, Megyn, about her record that is particularly impressive. I think more generally what I see in the polls is that voters are beginning to understand that there’s really no there, there with Kamala Harris,” Schoen stated.
Successful Presidential candidates boil their message down to a digestible soundbite that allows voters to understand why they want to be President beyond just for the sake of holding the office.
Americans could see Donald Trump is running for President to make America great again.
Schoen told Kelly that Kamala Harris lacked that overarching theory of the case.
“Whether it be her record as a law student, as a lawyer, as a prosecutor, as an attorney general. There doesn’t appear to be any overarching argument she can make other than, ‘I’m the same as Joe Biden and whatever positions I’ve taken that are unpopular I’m only too happy to alter to fit the political climate,’” Schoen stated.
J.D. Vance’s chameleon label sticks
Shortly after Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee for President, J.D. Vance described Kamala as a chameleon who will shift her persona to fit whatever audience she is speaking in front of.
“Look, all he said is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon,” Vance told CNN.
“She is everything to everybody, and she pretends to be somebody different depending on which audience she is in front of. I think it’s totally reasonable for the president to call that out, and that’s all he did,” Vance added.
Schoen agreed with that critique, telling Kelly that Kamala Harris’ attempts to lurch to the center by campaigning with Liz Cheney came off as phony because she can’t decide which of her previous left-wing policies like taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners she will stick by or which she will have her aides anonymously try and walk back in the press.
“So what I see, Megyn, is a problem that goes beyond integrity to inauthenticity, which I think as election day approaches is actually the larger issue that she faces. Because voters are seeing that there’s no record, there’s no agenda for the future and there’s no sense of character about her that gives people real confidence,” Schoen declared.
