If liberals across the country were hoping that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ first public interview since becoming the de facto nominee after President Joe Biden was pushed out of his position would rally the troops and send her approval rating skyrocketing into the stratosphere, they’re all going to be sorely disappointed. As it turns out, many are now even more discouraged about the chances Harris has of defeating former President Donald Trump in the November election after the CNN interview with Dana Bash.
Even political betting markets have turned on the vice president after the disastrous discussion with Bash was aired on Thursday evening.
There were a lot of things that caused Harris, who was flanked by her vice presidential pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, during the whole conversation, to crash and burn. One of those was her inability to explain flip-flopping on some rather critical policy positions. She actually had to fall back on Walz, who cut in numerous times during the interview, in order to bail her out of trouble.
Breitbart put out a report concerning the always in-flux odds which have Harris losing to Trump as of this writing:
The vice president went from being the favorite to win with odds of 10/11 (52.4 percent) on Thursday to tied with Donald Trump on 19/20 (51.3 percent) each on Friday morning, according to the Star Sports betting company. Over the same period, Trump’s odds of victory in November improved from 21/20 (48.8 percent) before the interview to 20/21 (51.2 percent), according to U.K. based bookmaker Betfair.
Here’s more from the folks at Trending Politics News:
Thursday’s interview was the national media’s first chance to see Harris in an unscripted format taking basic questions about her campaign and qualifications to succeed President Joe Biden. Reporters have tangled with her spokesman about why she’s dodged the press after more than a month on the campaign trail, and Thursday’s interview was the culmination of weeks of promises that she would finally do so. Horse traders, it seems, were not impressed.
“Vice President Harris is now tied at 19/20 with Republican candidate Donald Trump, drifting slightly from 10/11 yesterday. The Californian had been 5/6 in recent weeks but she has failed to surge ahead of Trump in the market,” Star Sports betting analyst William Kedjanyi said in a conversation with left-leaning publication Newsweek. “GOP supporters will hope Trump can now go on to tip the balance in his favor, before November’s presidential election.”
He then added, “Before Kamala Harris’ sit-down interview with CNN overnight, the Betfair Exchange market had more or less been neck and neck. While the lead in the betting has flip flopped throughout August, momentum is now with Trump and he has become the odds-on favorite again after being backed into 21/20.”
Those who support Trump have consistently pointed out how inept the media is when it comes to estimating the level of support for the former president among the electorate, noting that they were convinced twice-failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would stomp a mudhole in Trump. That didn’t happen. Many of his supporters have pointed out how these pollsters are still having a hard time identifying folks who might be MAGA supporters.
“The path to 270 electoral votes relies on a number of swing states that Trump narrowly lost in 2020 including Georgia and Pennsylvania, but won four years earlier. In those instances, even some Democrats like Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) have predicted that Trump will carry their state,” the report said.
“I think if you match up Trump with Harris, and I think that’s what this is really about, and I do believe he’s going to win Pennsylvania. And I do believe it’s going to be close, but whether it’s Biden, whether it was Clinton, or whether it was with Vice President Harris I think it’s going to be very close,” the Pennsylvania Democrat went on to say in a recent interview.
Another pollster, Republican Frank Luntz, who is most definitely not a card-carrying member of the Donald Trump fan club, thinks the former president is pulling in a large “silent majority” of support from blue-collar union workers who have broken away from liberal leadership more in this day and age than any other time in history.
“I assure you that Donald Trump is doing better among the average union member – not teachers unions and not the unions for government, but everybody else – trades, people working with their hands. He’s doing better among them than any Republican has done in decades,” Luntz said in a conversation with CNN earlier this month. “This is not gonna be a problem for him. The union leadership is more divided from their membership, and the louder it is the greater the divides are gonna come. And in my focus groups, and this is remarkable to me, the union membership says ‘They don’t speak for me.’”
Seems like Kamala Harris doesn’t have nearly the level of support the propaganda makers in the mainstream media want you to believe she has. Liberals are probably shaking in their boots.
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