The 2024 election is the closest race in decades.
Anything could tip the scales one way or the other.
Now one of The View co-hosts slams the panic button over Donald Trump’s secret weapon this election.
The View co-host worries about Trump’s appeal to young voters
A Democrat needs to carry 60 percent of the youth vote to win a Presidential Election.
Hillary Clinton fell short in 2016, winning 59 percent as Donald Trump won the White House.
Joe Biden hit the 60 percent threshold four years ago.
Kamala Harris is nowhere near those numbers.
Donald Trump led Kamala Harris 48 to 47 percent in a New York Times/Siena poll that induced mass freakouts on the Left.
One reason Trump led Kamala Harris was because Kamala Harris was only winning voters aged 18 to 30, 51 to 43 percent.
On The View, co-host Sara Haines argued the secret to Trump’s success with young voters was the fact Trump appeared on podcasts popular with young Americans who aren’t regular voters.
“Donald Trump is doing something that was just brought to my attention this weekend,” Haines began. “He’s on a podcast tour, like with some pretty crazy people, but the reach of these podcasts is massive. They’re getting millions of hits . . . he is hitting them all and they’re talking about what you’d expect from him, nothing. But the important point is here is that those people who are watching are mostly geared toward young people, so they’re not watching CNN, Fox, The View. They’re on podcasts.”
In recent weeks, Trump’s sat for interviews with comedian Theo Von and computer scientist Lex Fridman.
Those appearances garnered 13 million and 4.7 million views respectively.
Haines worried that Trump meeting young voters where they are and discussing their problems – such as Kamala Harris’ inflation causing interest rates on a 30-year mortgage to shoot up to 6.35% compared to 4.13% when Trump was President and thus pushing home buying out of reach – was showing positive results.
“So whether they agree or not, because these aren’t political podcasts, so this isn’t like a conservative group of people, they’re seeing that he cares enough to show up and be there, and I think it’s having an effect somewhat with these young people,” Haines concluded.
The problem with Kamala Harris
The View’s fake conservative co-host Alyssa Farah-Griffin agreed that Trump’s strategy was working and encouraged Kamala Harris to do the same.
“I would encourage the vice president, she’s busy, do more interviews. Voters need to hear more from her, they want to know more. 28% of voters said they feel like they need to learn a little bit more about her and her policies. Come on ‘The View,’ go on CNN, do local press. That matters,” Griffin stated.
Kamala Harris’ handlers won’t allow her to do extended interviews on podcasts like Von’s and Fridman.
That’s because Democrat operatives view Kamala Harris the same as Joe Biden – a candidate they need to shield from voters.
Joe Biden’s handlers kept Biden out of unscripted settings because he was cognitively impaired.
Kamala Harris’ handlers shield her from questions because they don’t trust that she can speak coherently without her teleprompter.
