A brand new report from Breitbart News, Democrats are quaking in their boots over the very real prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris losing the 2024 presidential election — only two weeks away — to former President Donald Trump, believing victory is slipping through her fingers as we speak. So what is giving the radical left nightmares?
Well, the preliminary early voting trends this week are suggesting that GOP candidates are outperforming Democrats in critical battleground states, which means Harris’ campaign is about to hit that big, shiny red panic button and really start pumping out the fearmongering rhetoric as the days countdown to the election, hoping that this will drive people to the polls. Harris and former President Barack Obama have claimed this week that Trump is some sort of unhinged maniac “with no guardrails,” in an attempt to scare the snot out of less discerning individuals so they will cast a ballot for Harris.
“Everyone keeps saying, ‘It’s close.’ Yes, it’s close, but are things trending our way? No. And no one wants to openly admit that,” a Democrat strategist said in a conversation with the Hill’s Amie Parnes. “Could we still win? Maybe. Should anyone be even slightly optimistic right now? No.”
Some Democrats, however, are ringing the alarm bells after early voting data in Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania looked to benefit Republicans. “In Wilmington, they are frantically trying to figure that out,” Democrat and cohost of The Morning Meeting Dan Turrentinesaid Tuesday about early vote trends. “If you look at, not just in Nevada, but so far, Democrats are underperforming in Philadelphia and Atlanta, and now we’re seeing Las Vegas.”
“The Harris campaign appears to be struggling with Latinos, black men, and young voters,” Turrentine commented. “It appears that those problems have not been solved … Things like this, you know, give you a little bit of heartburn … Nevada is supposed to be, you know, one of our best states. And so it appears that some of our base voters are not very energized right now.”
Early voting is ongoing and the data is incomplete, but that has not stopped Democrats from noting the absence of momentum. “If this is a vibe election, the current vibes ain’t great,” another strategist told the Hill. A former aide in the Obama administration believes that Harris might still win, but a loss would not be surprising.
“It feels like two things are true at the same time,” an aide said to the Hill. “It’s either … of course she was always a flawed candidate, nobody likes her, she’s tainted by Biden, and all of the macrofactors have slid away from Team Blue — it’s becoming a border, economy, foreign affairs election.”
“Or, of course — he was a terrible candidate, ran a horrible, crazy campaign, had no real ground game or fundraising and then acted like an insane person,” the aide added. “It’s sort of the opposite of 2016, which was, ‘How could this happen?’ This feels more like, ‘Of course this happened.’ … We just don’t know which yet.”
Breitbart then noted that the Harris campaign doesn’t seem to believe that if it wins, it will do so by a large margin. The Trump campaign is on the exact opposite side of the spectrum, feeling more than a little optimistic about their chances of winning and doing so decisively.
“Democrats wish Donald Trump wouldn’t get more than 46% of the vote,” Harris campaign senior adviser David Plouffe said in an interview with CNN. “That’s not reality. He’s going to get up to 48% in all of these states. And so we just have to make sure we’re hitting our win number, which depending on the state, could be 50, could be 49.5.”
“Historically, it would be unusual to have seven states come down to a point or less,” he concluded. “But I think at this point, you have to assume that’s a distinct possibility.”