Despite facing a uniquely flawed opponent, Kamala Harris is still running neck and neck with Donald Trump. To shore up support among key constituencies, she needs to champion popular pro-worker policies — and stop underwriting Israel’s genocide.

Even after a stretch of positive media coverage, a widely praised Democratic National Convention, and a debate performance in which she dominated former president Donald Trump, Harris has continued to cast her campaign as a long shot.

Why the hand-wringing, when Harris is polling far better than President Joe Biden was before he dropped out of the race?

Some pundits have stacked it up to a savvy get-out-the-vote strategy. But the race really is that close: especially in decisive swing states, the Harris campaign is, in many ways, the underdog. And considering the far larger size of Biden’s 2020 lead — and how narrow his win turned out to be — Democrats have every reason to worry.

  • @TropicalDingdong
    11•2 months ago

    Maybe stop campaigning with neocons? Go back to what worked for the month of September: progressive, populist proposals.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
      4•2 months ago

      She is a neocon. Why would she stop campaigning with them?

      She’s a neolib. I was still waking up when I replied

      • @Psychodelic
        1•2 months ago

        Isn’t she more of a neo-liberal? What makes her con vs lib to you/y’all

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
          1•2 months ago

          Oops, my bad! I posted that while still waking up and drinking my morning coffee. She’s a neolib. While she does advocate for a strong national defense, I don’t think she really aligns with any other Neocon ideals.

          • @TropicalDingdong
            2•2 months ago

            I mean she aligns enough with Neocons to have made them the focus of her campaign for almost a month. Which is utterly baffling. But it happened.

    • @Psychodelic
      2•2 months ago

      Right… but she’s not gonna do that.

      We have to force her and well we’re probably not gonna do that either, but that’s def more likely to work

  • sunzu2
    2•2 months ago

    DNC komissars ain’t got a strategy beyond shaming people into voting for her lol

    Grifters got too comfortable. They don’t respect democratic voter and they sure as fuck won’t resonate with anyone else.

    Fuck 'em