VP Kamala Harris’s campaign is on the defensive because former President Trump is making gains in blue states. This is because Harris failed to get a post-convention bump, which is something that most campaigns today expect to happen.

Before going to swing states this weekend, Harris and her top supporters, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his wife Doug Emhoff, will be going to blue states.

An Emerson College/WHDH poll done before the convention showed that Harris only had a four-point lead in New Hampshire. On Wednesday, she is supposedly going to be there for a campaign event that has not yet been revealed. Walz will be in Minnesota, which is his home state. Two KTSP/SurveyUSA polls show that Trump has decreased Harris’s lead from ten points to five points since Walz joined the campaign. According to reports, Emhoff will cross the Potomac River to raise money in Virginia, which is another state where Trump has done surprisingly well in the 2024 election cycle.

During the standard long campaign season, a short break now and then is not unusual. But these trips are important for a campaign that was put together after President Biden’s fall and needs to make every day count with only two months to go until the election.

There were planned swing state meetings over the weekend, and before that, Harris and Walz went on a multi-day visit through Georgia that made a lot of people scratch their heads.

The strange timing comes after a terrible week in which the campaign insulted 13 Gold Star families, which backfired badly.

Reports say that the campaign will soon send Biden out to campaign, which is another sign that things are going badly.

Sunday, an ABC News/Ipsos poll showed that Harris didn’t get “a general bounce in support” after officially taking her party’s nomination at the DNC.

Author: Steven Sinclaire