Harris' campaign rolls out sprint tactics to win narrowly

With just two weeks to go until Election Day, Kamala Harris' top advisers are focusing on more nuanced tactics to persuade American voters.

Chiến dịch của bà Harris tung các chiến thuật nước rút để giành chiến thắng sít sao — *US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in Washington, DC, July 22, 2024. Photo: THX/TTXVN*

Specifically, Vice President Harris' campaign has led Americans to view Trump's second term as taking the country further off course and to see her as an agent of change that could determine the next president, multiple top aides to Harris told CNN. Harris' campaign chairwoman Jen O'Malley Dillon told top donors in Philadelphia last week that they may not believe the race could be tied overall, but that it could be in the battleground states where the presidency will be decided. Meanwhile, former President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign manager and now senior adviser to Harris, David Plouffe, and other advisers do not believe Trump's door-knocking and other outreach efforts can match what the national Democratic Party and the Harris campaign have been preparing for over the past year. “The Democrats would prefer that Donald Trump doesn’t get more than 46% of the vote,” Plouffe said, referring to the percentage of the national popular vote the former president won in his previous campaigns. But in the battleground states, “that’s not realistic. He’s going to get 48% in all of these states. And so we just have to make sure we get to a winning number that, depending on the state, could be 50, could be 49.5%.” Plouffe and other Harris aides believe the vice president still has room to run. And to that end, the campaign is putting together major events that will draw even more attention to Harris.

More targeted messaging While Harris’s aides are still aggressively “hunting” for apathetic voters, much of that outreach will take the form of new campaign tactics, some of them relying on new technology. Campaign aides believe they can make a difference through the surrogates they’ve put in place, whether it’s celebrities who appear on social media to target groups, or community members who send direct messages like those who attended a Doug Emhoff event in Southfield, Michigan, where Jewish voters were asked to send messages encouraging people to host a “Kamala Shabbat” dinner. While some senior Democrats said they were worried Harris could lose traditional TV ad battles to Republicans’ aggressive and broad attacks on transgender issues, Harris’s aides disagree. They argue that most of the competing voters won’t notice those ads if they’re watching TV. And Ms. Harris’s campaign has an advantage over Mr. Trump’s, thanks to months of precinct-by-precinct organizing and planning, constantly tweaking based on early voting and online data. During the “summer of children” and the revival-like atmosphere of the Democratic convention, Ms. Harris’s aides said, what they are planning is a steady race won by a narrow margin and requiring few big swings that opponents might view as desperate moves. After months of careful polling of prominent non- politicians , including entertainers and athletes, the campaign will roll out more endorsements, interviews and appearances aimed at breaking through to voters who have been indifferent. Reproductive rights remain a central issue, but outreach will also continue to focus on Harris’s biography and economic plan, with the belief that her campaign has room to expand with non-college white women, a group that Trump has pushed back. The Harris campaign also hopes to build on its efforts with seniors and maximize enthusiasm for her among black women, while also boosting support among black and Latino men. At least one closing event is expected to bring Harris and running mate Tim Walz together, with the Minnesota governor expected to appear in rural areas, taking shots at his opponent in a style the campaign has been hard-pressed to replicate in ads.

Part of the outreach, Ms. Harris’s advisers said, is to reach nervous Democrats who never really thought Mr. Trump could win at this point in 2016, then assumed he would lose in 2020 and are now facing the real prospect that the former president could win again.

Not counting on 'silent voters' Despite talk that this year could see a reversal of the 2016 and 2020 polling trends that understated Trump's support, Harris' top aides aren't counting on "silent voters" among women and Republicans in heavily Republican areas. But some of Harris's voters and even some field staff and volunteers are. They tell stories of women in suburban neighborhoods telling door-knockers they'll vote for Harris, even though none of their friends or neighbors have that option. "The independents I've met are considering voting for Harris, which is a good sign," Nancy Quarles, chairwoman of the Oakland County Democratic Party in Michigan, told CNN. Jennifer Norris, a health care analyst from rural Wahoo, Nebraska, and a former Saunders County Democratic Party chairwoman told CNN that she had had her car vandalized by Trump supporters before. But at this point, “I know too many Republicans won’t say it, but they’re ‘blue dots,’” she said, referring to Republicans who lean Democratic in the Omaha, Nebraska, area.

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