Posted on 09/03/2024 7:06:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
The long awaited softball interview that Kamala Harris recently did on CNN with Dana Bash did nothing to help her campaign, according to new polling from Rasmussen.
Even with a friendly outlet like CNN, many people felt that the interview was a dud which failed to convey any solid policy positions or s sense of where Kamala Harris wants to take the country.
Her campaign people are not helping her by hiding her from the public. Her ability to speak and do media spots is diminished.
From the Washington Examiner:
Harris momentum stalls, CNN talk didn’t help
In the first polling of voters after her long-awaited first televised interview, the momentum of newly-minted Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have stalled.
In a post by the pollster for Rasmussen Reports, momentum appears to now favor former President Donald Trump in the 2024 see-saw race.
The outfit’s overnight polling of its likely voter sample, typically with a slightly higher percentage of Democrats, showed that the advantage continued to shift to Trump following the Thursday night CNN interview in which Harris gave few details on her plans.
Rasmussen’s overnight data shows Trump leading the national popular race 49% to 45%.
Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen tweeted this:
Even the liberal outlet Newsweek trashed the interview:
Lousy Interview Bodes Ill For Harris-Walz Campaign
“I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” replied Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in a verbose word salad when CNN’s Dana Bash asked in her Thursday interview why her policy positions have changed since President Joe Biden cleared the path for her to run for president.
Bash looked curiously embarrassed for even asking such germane questions of someone seeking to be the most powerful person in the world. Harris, on the other hand, seemed confident that Bash would make no attempt to press her on any issue, likely knowing that the interview’s main purpose was to offer her campaign cover from accusations of dodging media scrutiny. Accordingly, she did not explain what her “values” are, how they have led her to endorse policies significantly at odds with those she espoused before she became the de facto Democratic nominee five weeks ago, or why Americans should trust her.
If Harris has already peaked, and it looks like she has, her campaign is in serious trouble.
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That the polling is even this close is highly disturbing.
Yeah, except her campaign and Karine Jean-Pierre can tout that Harris is “putting herself out there” blah, blah, blah . . .
You're talking about the state of the country. Unfortunately for Romney, he spoke the truth when he mentioned 47%, and that was in 2012. Any GOP candidate, and that includes Trump, will do better in the Electoral College than in the popular vote.
Statistically insignificant. Look at those sample sizes. Every single article interpreting poll results is invalid because they compare changes as if the margin of error is zero. There is no such thing.
The most that can be concluded is: there was no huge swing toward Kamalalala.
And that’s before considering that every single TV pollster also misstates what the MOE is applied to.
So that is Dana Bash.
Makes sense now.
Democrapic voters will vote for anything with a (D) after it, so poll numbers will stay the same. She cannot convince any fair-minded voter to go her way, so she is gonna be dependant on voter suppression and illegal augmentation of votes. But we are dealing with Dems ...so look out for something very bad.
It’s not really an election. Dems vote for D regardless. They could not care any less about the job description, the defense of the constitution or anything of the sort.
I would venture that their constitution is no Trump, abortion, then D
And then the party is there to fill in the gaps
To her credit, Dana Bash actually did a couple of acts of real journalism................
Yes, and you have to then ask if it's worth saving if it's irreversible.
We have a very wicked generation up and coming.
yes siree bob she’s putting herself out there! and helpful joe is comparing her to a saint when he says “She has the moral compass of a saint”. but wouldn’t that mean Willie Brown is the pointer on her compass? I’ll never look at a compass the same way. “some things you just don’t have to see to not unsee” L.Star
Just like ChiComjoe and his debate fiasco. Did anyone expect any different outcome between two traitorous low-life idiots?
Yeah. Dana Schwarz Bash, ex-wife of Jeremy Bash, Chief of Staff of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America, a country his immigrant alien father came to not so long ago.
What a great country, huh? A guy with virtually no connection at all to the US can end up running its most powerful government agency.
Affirmative Action for “first generation” deep state wannabes.
Polling lately has been grossly oversampling democrats, last few national polls I have looked into the details of have oversampled democrats by up to 30%… no poll has perfect sampling but with polling sampling that far off you can’t correct for it.
Exactly! This is worrisome. I have been worried all along that the majority of stupid people would vote for this insanity to continue in our nation. I guess the idiots like to pay $4 for a dozen eggs $5dollars for bacon etc. etc. and we’re not even including the crime wave by Venezuela gangs taking over apartment complexes across the nation. They just want to keep it close enough to rig the election for the cackling hyena. I’m done praying …I don’t know where God’s gonna take this nation because the majority of stupid atheists Americans don’t want to cure the cancer that’s killing this nation!
Will she try and get out of the ‘debate’ somehow? Black Swan?............
Therefore it is not that Harris interview failed and damaged the campaign because of her weakness in the interview, it is that her inadequacies in the interview are clearly insufficient to halt the ongoing deterioration in her campaign's trajectory that has already peaked.
By the time the debate occurs the need for the Harris campaign to stop the hemorrhaging will be apparent not just to those privy to her internal polling but to the world at large. She will be confronted in the debate with the task of turning around the momentum in the election and she will be under much increased pressure and tension that she is not temperamentally suited to handle.
As the stakes in the debate increase for her, her dilemma of repudiating the Biden candidacy on the one hand or opening herself to charges of flip-flopping on the other hand will grow more apparent to everyone and cause her either to lurch into extremes or submerge herself in banalities in an attempt to hold a middle ground.
She will resort to personal attacks against Trump and references to abortion but these will not be sufficient to halt her downhill slide.
She will not be able to perform in a fashion that requires ad lib., or deft footwork under pressure.
On the other hand, if she does not participate in the debate she will inevitably see her chances diminish despite the Herculean efforts of the media to make her more than what she is, an empty pants suit.
These two maroons are place-holders imo. A last minute candidate will appear.
I have been worried all along that the majority of stupid people would vote for this insanity to continue in our nation. I guess the idiots like to pay $4 for a dozen eggs $5dollars for bacon etc. etc
They blame the companies for raising prices, they think Commie-La will impose price controls.
I didn’t drill down on that-her husband is Chief of Staff of the Central Intelligence Agency?
That is criminal.
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