The tactic that could cause Ms. Harris to stumble on the path to the White House
Báo Dân trí•27/10/2024
(Dan Tri) - Pollsters say presidential candidate Kamala Harris' momentum is stalling as she turns to attack her opponent Donald Trump.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris campaigns in Georgia, USA (Photo: Reuters).
Republican pollster Frank Luntz said Vice President Kamala Harris continues to face challenges connecting with the small number of undecided voters she could persuade to vote for her. Luntz said the Democratic presidential candidate's communications strategy has failed to resonate with this group of undecided voters. According to Luntz, Harris may not achieve her goal of winning the election in November. He said the Democratic presidential candidate's momentum has "frozen" since she shifted her focus to attacking Republican rival Donald Trump, rather than focusing on delivering policy messages. Luntz said Harris' best efforts were when she made the case for why she should be elected president. However, that progress has stalled as she has focused more on attacking Trump in recent weeks. "What's interesting is that when Harris focuses on why she should be elected president, that's when her poll numbers go up," the pollster said. "She had the best 60 days of any presidential candidate in modern history, but then she turns to Trump, focuses on him and says, 'Don't vote for me, vote against him' ... that's when everything freezes," Luntz said. Luntz pointed to Harris' recent CNN appearance, when the vice president turned the focus to her opponent, rather than directly answering a question about immigration and the border wall. "They asked her specifically, 'What's your stance on the border wall?' And what did she do? She turned to Donald Trump," Luntz said. Luntz noted that Harris has repeatedly failed to give voters clear, specific plans. “She hasn’t told the public, step by step, what she’s going to do,” he said. Luntz said that if Harris wants to win, she needs to lay out a clear vision of what she’ll do if she becomes president. “She should say, ‘I want to tell you what I’m going to do in the first hour, the first day, and the first week of being president.’ But she hasn’t,” he said. With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, Harris’ campaign is trying to build on the momentum that carried her through the Democratic convention and the debates with Donald Trump. But Luntz believes the vice president’s struggles to connect with key groups of voters could leave her struggling in key battleground states. He pointed out that the outcome of the election could depend on how well Ms. Harris performs with key constituencies in specific areas: blacks in North Carolina and Georgia, union members in the Rust Belt and Latinos in Arizona and Nevada.
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