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The Democrat Party descends on Chicago next week, with Kamala Harris ready to step up and officially take the reins on her bid to occupy a bigger office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But what does Harris actually stand for, as she tries to convince voters her values are the ones they want setting the tone for the country for at least the next four years? ABC News contributor Sarah Isgur appeared on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning program with a peek at what she will be looking at as the Democrats blow into the Windy City on Monday.
Isgur told Len and Michael, “One [thing I’m looking for], of course, is the overall messaging of the campaign, because what we’ve heard from the Harris campaign so far is so high level; you know- she’s ‘for freedom.’ Oh, okay. They’re going to have to dig into that a little bit more over the course of four days. Are they pivoting to the middle? Is this going to be a convention focused on their base? And the second important thing is will she get that traditional bump from the convention heading into Labor Day? Right now she is ahead or tied in every swing state except Nevada. Can she hold onto that, build it up a little, because things are about to get a lot tighter, I think, after Labor Day.”
Isgur also feels that Harris must prove after four years as Biden’s VP how she can step out of the long shadow that her association with him casts over her candidacy. “Right now, they’re doubling-down on doing absolutely nothing policy-wise. We have heard that the Harris campaign, at least privately, is trying to look for a way to break with the Biden administration. Of course, Biden’s approval numbers [are] down in the thirties, and yet voters, at this moment at least, do not really seem to tie her to Biden’s policies… but, you know recently at the White House press briefing, the press secretary said that Harris was in lockstep with Biden. There was, quote, ‘no daylight’ between Harris and Biden on their policies. That’s obviously something that Harris, of course, for her campaign, does not want the American public to think. How will she make that distinction, when Biden is in fact headlining the first night of the convention?”
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