As we reported, that honeymoon for Kamala Harris is looking like it might be over as the American people take a better look at her and her running mate, Tim Walz.
I wrote on Wednesday about Nate Silver’s latest forecast, now Silver’s numbers just got better for Trump and worse for Harris, from what I wrote on then.
As Silver noted, part of that is not very positive state news for Harris, citing the local Michigan poll and sees Pennsylvania as an issue, too. That’s a must have for Democrats.
Don’t be bullish on her because she has Biden-ese. She just can’t unburden herself from it and her patchwork, slapdash campaign.
There was a surge of enthusiasm for Harris post-Biden dropout, but that might have happened no matter what. Thought convention speech was good, but bypassing Shapiro beginning to look bad and they haven’t really found a 2nd gear after Hot Brat Summer
Translation: They may have made a big boo-boo in not picking Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, the state they have to have. Plus Republicans have the enthusiasm advantage. In the meantime, picking Tim Walz didn’t even help them in Minnesota — then they had to deal with all his scandals, stolen valor questions, and lies.
What was funny on top of Silver’s opinion about them possibly blowing it with not picking Shapiro was this report from journalist Josh Kraushaar.
“Hearing lost of rumbling today that Harris camp regretting not picking Shapiro,” he said.
Whoops. We could have told you that was probably a bad political choice, when you need Pennsylvania and he might have helped deliver it.
They seemed to have picked Walz off of “vibes” because they liked him attacking JD Vance. They don’t seem to have done a very good job of vetting him.