Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on Sunday is launching “Republicans for Harris” as she looks to win over Republican voters put off by Donald Trump’s candidacy.
The program will be a “campaign within a campaign,” according to Harris’ team, using well-known Republicans to activate their networks, with a particular emphasis on primary voters who backed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. The program will kick off with events this week in Arizona, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Republicans backing Harris will also appear at rallies with the vice president and her soon-to-be-named running mate this coming week, the campaign said.
The Harris campaign shared the details of the program first with The Associated Press before the official announcement.
Please no, don’t pander to the right. Pick up the people farther to the left and invigorate younger voters. We’ve had enough centrists and doing this unravels where your momentum is actually coming from. But I guess you have to appease the doners…
The strategy that will pick up those stray Republican votes isn’t going to moving to the right, it’s going to be focusing on the things that shouldn’t be partisan at all. Despite cosplaying as patriotic Americans, the MAGA crowd routinely positions itself in direct opposition to the core values and principles that America is supposed to stand for: liberty, equality, democracy, truth, justice, and the rule of law.
She doesn’t have to run to the right, she just has to run as someone that’s normal and point out how far from normal Trump and pals really are.
I’m not saying that the examples for your point don’t exist, but it feels like every time they do this it bites them in the ass super hard. These moves alienate people and are a great way to kill energy on the left. Unless we’re just saying that left-most voters don’t matter again.
Nothing I suggested should be a problem for the left. I specifically said that she wouldn’t win by moving to the right, but rather by running on things that shouldn’t be partisan, core principles which appeal across the political divide, but which aren’t shared by Trump or those around him.
Unless we’re just saying that left-most voters don’t matter again.
Oh don’t worry, we (they) are saying that.
It wasn’t always this way for Harris, who, in 2020, faced off against Biden and more than a dozen other Democrats as the party lurched to the left.
“Running in a Democratic primary at the height of the racial reckoning in 2020, her background as a former prosecutor, I think, hurt her,” said Conway. “In 2024, the country is in the mood for a candidate that has her background and can go on offense against Donald Trump.”
First, Harris has to reintroduce herself and, in the process, reassure moderates, Republicans looking to her said. While Conway, Whitman and Shays all plan to vote for Harris, others may need more to come on board.
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Whitman is clear-eyed about the challenge of putting at ease voters who may have reservations about Harris’s liberal record and stances. “It’s going to be tough,” Whitman said. “A lot’s going to depend on who she picks as vice president. Even though she’s not way-left, that’s how they’re going to paint her, and that’s how she’s going to be perceived.”
Ffs!
I’m 41 and if I live to a hundred, the DNC will still think every election takes place in 1992 where there was tens of millions of votes in convincing moderate Republicans 🤦
“Almost but not quite in a fascist cult” is not a big or realistically persuadable demographic! 🤦
There are people who are blissfully ignorant about politics without being the rabid cults that you see in the media. Maybe this can reach some of them?
Nah, with how over saturated all news is with the latest scandals and political nonevents nowadays, the only ones blissfully ignorant purposefully avoid politics entirely
People so averse aren’t likely to vote, especially not if they live in one of the areas rife with voter suppression hurdles.
Okay, this is going to sound really esoteric especially because I can’t find the study that was referenced but bear with me.
I once watched an astrophysicist lecture on the Fermi Paradox, saying that it was missing a component because not all the population will be aware of any specific meme, meme in the scientific sense of a single unit of information.
There was a study (I think in the 80s?) that showed that no matter what the information there will always be a percentage of the population who is isolated from it, whether that be by choice, or not. He retooled the Drake equation to include this number.
Point being, there is always benefit in trying different ways to reach more people because there’s always going to be certain people who won’t be reached.
I’d be OK with Romney for Kamala’s VP.
He reformed health in Michigan Massachusetts when he was there.
Didn’t romney also march during covid in support of the CDC and quarantine? He’s got a lot of shit policies and ideas but he ain’t all bad I guess.
They always do this shit, appeal to the right while shitting on their own. In the meantime they shift the entire party to the right
Maybe they think appealing to those already committed to voting for you while rejecting those on the fence is a shitty strategy.
The problem is that the Democrats get so obsessed with chasing, “moderate,” Republicans that they lose their own base to low enthusiasm and low turnout. Remember what Chuck Schumer said:
“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.”
He said that in 2016, and predicted that not only would Hillary Clinton win, but that the Democrats would retake the Senate. Turns out that was a spectacularly bad prediction. The candidate swap has generated a lot of enthusiasm for Kamala among the Democratic base. They shouldn’t squander it trying to appeal to conservatives.
Damn. For like two weeks there I was excited about this election. Thought the DNC was finally listening to the left. Turns out the VP to the “Nothing will fundamentally change” president is just as bad.
But, there’s still time for me to be proven wrong. If I had any faith in the DNC, maybe I’d think this campaign will be about showing non-fascist conservatives how much they actually have in common with progressives; like how much we’re all being exploited by the owner class and how much money the government could stop wasting by just giving everyone free healthcare already.
