Harris on the attack

 PJ Media:

You’ve probably noticed that Kamala Harris has abandoned her original campaign strategy of “joy” and “vibes” and replaced it with fear, anger, and attacks on Trump. She’s been attacking Trump forever, but there’s something markedly different about her tone in the past few days. 

Obviously, a big part of the reason is that her efforts to sell her agenda to the public aren’t working. But it goes deeper than that. At the core of this strategy shift is the undeniable reality that Trump is more popular today than he ever has been before, and she’s trying to do something about that.

As CNN’s Harry Enten pointed out Friday morning, “If you believe that Donald Trump has somehow become less popular over time, let me change your mind about that.” He explains that Trump “is more popular at this point in the campaign than he was at this point in the 2020 campaign or the 2016 campaign.”

That’s a concerning reality for Kamala and her team. Despite Trump being underwater with a negative nine-point favorability rating, Enten reminds us, “That is higher than he was in 2020 at minus 12 points when he nearly won.” 

That’s an understatement. The election hinged on less than 50,000 votes across three battleground states. Had it not been for the Democrats’ mail-in vote strategy, Trump likely would have won. Democrats can’t rely on the mail-in vote so much this year because there is no pandemic.

Even more alarming for Harris is the fact that in 2016, Trump was at a dismal minus-27 points — yet he managed to secure the presidency. This explains the shift in tone from the Harris-Walz campaign. According to Enten, “I think there’s this real question in Kamala Harris’s mind, in the campaign’s mind: Why is Trump more popular now than he was at this point in 2020 and 2016?”

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Trump is more popular because his policies were more effective at controlling inflation and making the world more peaceful.  The US was more prosperous under Trump's policies.  I think another reason why people are supporting Trump is the Democrats defective strategy of demonizing Trump rather than focusing on the issues people care about.

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