Staff Reports
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign appears to have gone off the rails and into full damage control mode. Recently, some unnamed officials within her camp decided they needed to spin the narrative about her chances in the presidential race, leaking a rather rosy internal assessment to the New York Times. Considering it follows several weeks of headlines suggesting her campaign is more deflated than a popped balloon, one has to wonder if optimism is a sign of madness or desperation.
In a stark departure from what her campaign had been peddling earlier, these officials now claim that Harris’s chances are bright in the race against former President Donald Trump. Before this epiphany, the narrative had been one of an underdog trying to make a miraculous comeback. Now, suddenly, they are declaring that the landscape is shifting in Harris’s favor, particularly in key battleground states. This newfound enthusiasm seems less about concrete facts and more about grasping at straws amidst lousy news—like a lifeguard shrugging off a tidal wave.
Anonymous Harris Aides Try to Reframe Campaign with Fresh Assessment https://t.co/M4rfoAMS6K via @BreitbartNews
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Polling data, however, does not seem to align with the Harris campaign’s fluttering hopes. While official numbers suggest a neck-and-neck race between Trump and Harris, a glance at early voter data—long considered the gold standard for assessing campaign strength—indicates Trump may be in a commanding position. Of course, this data is as bittersweet for the Harris team as a slice of cake with no frosting. The claim that a crusade to smear Trump as a “fascist” will rally voters feels like a rebranded attempt to paint the former president as a modern-day Hitler.
Unsurprisingly, the internal strategies being discussed include vague projections of strength in traditional Democratic strongholds like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The reasoning? Supposedly, slight leads in polling might as well be measured with a ruler next to a measuring tape—half a percentage point may sound like findings, but that’s barely enough to call it a lead. Meanwhile, states like Arizona and North Carolina are regarded with trepidation, as if they were sudden drops on an amusement park roller coaster. It’s hard to be optimistic about two states when the other two are undoubtedly giving her vision nightmares.
The Times did sprinkle in a dose of skepticism about the optimistic data emerging from the Harris campaign, rightly pointing out the tendency of the current administration to misjudge the electorate. If history is a guide, the only sure thing this election season is the risk of overconfidence leading to electoral catastrophe. One can almost hear the cringing echoes of 2020’s predictions ringing on again as the Harris team operates under the misguided notion that their early polling will save them. In all likelihood, it will just add more fodder for late-night talk shows and political pundits alike.
