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With the Democrats opening their convention tonight in Chicago, many pundits are commenting on the revitalized fortunes of their party as they get ready to officially pass the torch from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris. It’s a far cry from this time last month, when Democrats were bracing themselves for the worst as Election Day creeped closer. Democratic strategist Melissa DeRosa is among those who see momentum clearly in Harris’s corner; she appeared on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning program to say that Republicans have themselves partly to blame for why their outlook is now upside-down.
“Georgia, Arizona, Nevada- all of a sudden that’s turned on its head, and you see those states all squarely in play,” DeRosa told Berman and Riedel, “And I think that the polling around that is significant and should really scare Donald Trump and his team, because all of a sudden the map is significantly different. They’ve got to put money and resources in different places, and again, until their candidate starts acting disciplined and taking it to the Democrats where we know it resonates, which is the economy and migrants, and stops talking about crowd size and acting like a lunatic, then, you know, he’s just handing it to her in a walk.”
Harris has offered little to prospective voters aside from small nuggets of her campaign philosophy, such as offering student loan forgiveness and $25,000 to first-time home buyers. DeRosa, however, sees other factors that are drawing Democrats and some undecided voters to back her. “We talked about this, when we were discussing her getting swapped onto the ticket, and I joked and said she can dance, she’s young and attractive, she’s got energy when she moves… and it was what Nikki Haley said when she was campaigning: whichever major party dumps their eighty-year-old white guy is going to win, and the Democrats did and the Republicans didn’t, and all of a sudden you see this dramatic shift. So I think it’s not- I don’t buy into it’s just about that, because Biden had some of the same policy proposals, and it didn’t move them at all. I think they’re energized because they see energy, and they see the future.”
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