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Harris’s Campaign: A Source of Democratic Doubt! 

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Credit | BBC

United States: Democrats are feeling really anxious right now! Just a couple of months ago, they were excited about Vice President Harris running against former President Trump in the upcoming election. 

But now, with less than a month until Election Day, they’re starting to worry about some problems in her campaign. Recently, some Democrats even complained about how she did in an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes. 

As reported by The Hill, there is also the worry what about the continuing to be stale poll numbers in the race or the VP’s communication and even among men – but not only white ones, but Black and Hispanics as well. 

Some of this perhaps can just be chalked up to normal Democratic nerves in anticipation of what looks like it could be one of the closest presidential campaigns in US history. Both times it is nerve-wracking for Democrats. 

“Topics remain stalemated and the shape of the electorate cannot be determined and there are a dozen things at least, that no one has seen before?, 

 Any chance of left-wing changes in this administration is doomed until at least 2023,” said Jamal Simmons, Harris’s former director of communications until early last year. 

“We can’t look back with any level of security because we haven’t had an African American woman on the ticket. We haven’t had a former president who is vying again. We have not had a campaign with two attempted assassinations. I think the fact that we haven’t swapped out a candidate two months before Election Day before shows that people are paying attention. 

“So it is just difficult to know,” added Simmons. Well, this one is rather simple, ‘If you are not nervous you are not trying’.  

Democratic strategist Anthony Coley, who worked in the Biden administration, agreed and said that the nervousness was clear when Democrats gave poll numbers that remained flat in the days following the Democratic National Convention where they compared Harris to candidate Barack Obama in 2008.  

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Credit | AFP
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Credit | AFP

“Now that the sugar high is gone, people have wished of what Kamala Harris has said from the start which is she is the underdog,” Coley said. This now tells me that, this is going to be a fight.” These numbers are so recalcitrant.”  

Of course, Democrats have had some positive events in recent days on several fronts.  

First of all, Harris won on the economic side after the publication of rather inspiring jobs numbers last week. Another factor which has Democrats concerned with – inflation has also eased. 

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