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The campaign that could do no wrong just two weeks ago suddenly can’t get out of its own way, as Donald Trump is under fire for a comment that he made on Wednesday, saying that Kamala Harris “became a black person” when she began running for political office. Meanwhile, the Kamala Harris honeymoon has been a complete reverse image; the liberal Vice-President candidate that everybody wanted to go away two weeks ago is now the media darling with a moderate stance heading into the Democratic convention later this month.
Former Nassau County Executive Laura Curran appeared on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel program to dissect the candidates and their campaigns, starting with Trump’s bid for re-election, which she feels now is starting to resemble the campaign that cost Joe Biden his shot at re-election.
“He’s got a really good campaign team, he’s got really professional people who are experienced, and it looked like it was running a really great campaign- until it wasn’t,” Curran told Riedel and Larry Mendte, sitting in for Berman. “You’ve got to think they’re watching, like with Biden, in the before times. When Biden would speak, I’d almost imagine his advisors, like, white-knuckling it, wondering what is he going to say, is this going to be embarrassing. And now it’s the same thing with Donald Trump. It’s a dead heat; if he can control himself a little bit, he really could win.”
Curran feels Harris has leveled the odds more in her favor, at least until people start focusing more closely on the candidates after Labor Day. “Now, the honeymoon period ends; it always does. Something will happen, and we’re all going to talk about it. That’s just what it is. I don’t know how long it’s going to take; however, everything that’s coming out of her mouth and from her campaign has been really good pitch, really good tone, really good message, tacking to the center, which is what you have to do to win… [because] if you attach yourself to far-left, super-progressive positions, you’re going to lose. It’s not popular.”
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