Democrats start to hit the panic button

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Democrats start to hit the panic button
by Amie Parnes - 10/09/24 6:00 AM ET
Mark Schiefelbein, Associated Press

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.

Some of this perhaps can just be chalked up to normal Democratic nerves ahead of what looks like it could be among the closest presidential elections in history. Either way, it’s nerve-wracking for Democrats.

“Everything is deadlocked and the composition of the electorate is unknowable, and there are so many things that are unprecedented,” said Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons, who served as Harris’s communications director until last year.

“We can’t look back with any level of security because we haven’t had an African American woman on the ticket. We haven’t had a former president running again. We haven’t had a campaign with two assassination attempts. We haven’t switched out a candidate two months before Election Day before.”
 
“So it’s just hard to know,” Simmons explained. “If you’re not nervous, you’re not paying attention.”

Democratic strategist Anthony Coley, who served in the Biden administration, acknowledged the trepidation, pointing to the stagnant poll numbers in the weeks following the Democratic National Convention, when Democrats were making comparisons between Harris’s campaign and former President Obama’s run in 2008.

“Now that the sugar high is gone people have realized what Kamala Harris has said from the start, which is that she is the underdog,” Coley said. “This is going to be a fight. … These numbers are just so stubborn.”
 
The Democrats coronated Harris. She wasn't battle tested in a primary. She has never won a single primary voter. The sugar high is wearing off now and the Dems are discovering they coronated a moron. JD Vance destroyed Walz in the debate and Walz's lies have also damaged him so the Democrate ticket is in big trouble.
 
She wouldn't change a thing :laugh: High inflation, high crime, high illegal immigration, terrible foreign policy. It's all just fine with her.
But hasn't she been running on how she's going to Turn the page? She's really
an idiot...
 
She's an idiot?

She embarrassed Trump in their debate. It was completely one-sided. If she's an idiot - what does that make him?
We're talking about her tour yesterday... And
How it reflects on her... You do realize that she appeared for all those "interviews" so that people could get a better idea of who she "is"... How did that work out? When she couldn't hack it on Oprah , that should have send a clear message to the campaign... Don't make this kind of mistake again... So they Quadrupled down... Good lord...
 
We're talking about her tour yesterday... And
How it reflects on her... You do realize that she appeared for all those "interviews" so that people could get a better idea of who she "is"... How did that work out? When she couldn't hack it on Oprah , that should have send a clear message to the campaign... Don't make this kind of mistake again... So they Quadrupled down... Good lord...

That didn't answer my question.

You called her an idiot - which we see a lot. Conservatives belittling Harris' intelligence.

But if she isn't smart - how did she beat Trump in debate so handily? She baited him again & again, and he kept falling for it.
 
That didn't answer my question.

You called her an idiot - which we see a lot. Conservatives belittling Harris' intelligence.

But if she isn't smart - how did she beat Trump in debate so handily? She baited him again & again, and he kept falling for it.
She is an idiot... Tell me what her policies are and what her platform is... And then compare that to everything she said yesterday...
 
She is an idiot... Tell me what her policies are and what her platform is... And then compare that to everything she said yesterday...
Indeed.

FOX just showed the answer by Harris to the question about relations with Netanyahu.

Then the edited version was shown without the word salad. They edited it to clean up the mess with her first answer.

What else did they leave on the editing floor?
 
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