Kamala Harris Eyes a Different Map

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Kamala Harris Eyes a Different Map

July 23, 2024 at 6:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 209 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/07/23/kamala-harris-eyes-a-different-map/

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Politico: “Harris’s emerging brain trust is also starting to rethink how the fundamentals of the race against Donald Trump have changed. They believe Harris’ relative strength with young, Black and Brown voters will put more states in play than a weakened Biden could credibly contest.”

Said one Democratic veteran: “The Midwest is not where the opportunity is for her. The opportunity with her… is going to be Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania. And however those four states go, the rest of the country will follow.”

Use the interactive electoral map to test various scenarios.

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[honest.abe]

1. She needs the upper midwest, MN, WI, and MI or we lose.

[spooky3]

5. I agree. I don't know why they're writing off the Midwest.

And they need to pay attention to Virginia. Polls haven’t looked good for Dems, but VA is winnable with attention.

[honest.abe]

6. Big mistake to not put full effort into those states.

Yes VA too. Hopefully she gets better advice from other strategists.

[yardwork]

17. It's Politico, they don't have a clue. This is amateur speculation.

[DFab420]

2. Please don't run the Hillary playbook. FFS

[ColinC]

4. Is this what she did?

I mean she’s already visited these states a helluva lot more than Hillary did FWIW

[DFab420]

8. Hillary ignored the midwest and it gave us Trump

Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are on the road to the White House for any and every candidate

[ColinC]

13. Indeed. I'm just wondering if they are actually planning on ignoring the Midwest, or just not make other states a priori

[Cosmocat]

16. No she didn't

“In Michigan, where polls showed us ahead but not by as much as we’d like, we had nearly 140 more staff on the ground than (President) Obama did in 2012, and spent 166 percent more on television,” Clinton writes. “I visited seven times during the general election."

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/14/happened-hillary-clinton-michigan-campaign/105619778/

This is one of the the things that is so mind numbing, blaming the victim in this case, but generally with Ds. They let themselves flake out over R BS, as they did with Joe here, Dean with the "scream,' etc.

She lost because this country is stupid as $hit, primarily, but if you have to put it on one thing, the fricken Comey letter.

"Clinton’s standing in the polls fell sharply. She’d led Trump by 5.9 percentage points in FiveThirtyEight’s popular vote projection at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 28. A week later — after polls had time to fully reflect the letter — her lead had declined to 2.9 percentage points."

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/#:~:text=Clinton's%20standing%20in%20the%20polls,declined%20to%202.9%20percentage%20points.

[yardwork]

3. Politico running to get to the front of the parade...

Pfft.

[Dlpger61]

7. Bad Advice

Kamala must nit allow these so-called pundits to change her coarse. Going to Milwaukee today was awesome.

[kansasobama]

9. Bad strategy

I hope it is a Politico article. She cannot lose Michigan.

[surfered]

10. I was hoping the abortion rights ballot initiatives would more states in play.

[ViewObsessed]

11. North Carolina too!

[Sky Jewels]

14. Great minds!

I was writing the same thing as you posted.

[Sky Jewels]

12. North Carolina should be a target as well.

It's the most evenly split state, and there is a large African American population there. The population of people with higher education is substantial as well due to Research Triangle.

[W_HAMILTON]

15. Let's put first things first.

I remember where trying to expand the map before we locked down what we knew we needed got us in 2016...

When they are 100% sure they will win the Blue Wall back, then I'd feel more comfortable investing resources in states like AZ or GA.