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As we head into the home stretch for the 2024 Presidential Election, that means the inevitable media blitz will snowball, if it hasn’t already. For Kamala Harris, who shut out the naysayers’ calls to do interviews for most of the campaign, Tuesday saw her appear on The View, the Howard Stern Show and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. But is cracking open a beer on late night TV suddenly going to be enough to boost her ratings or attract new voters in a race that is a near dead-heat? ABC News Contributor Sarah Isgur doesn’t think so. Appearing on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning program, Isgur says the Harris blitz may be a day late and a dollar short.
“I think she probably should have done it in August,” Isgur told Berman and Riedel. “It’s October now, but I think it is overall good for her to get out there. The Democrats have a real problem. They thought they would have this race done, and they kept waiting for the tide to turn and it never did, and so here we are, less than a month out from Election Day and the tide still hasn’t turned. In fact, there’s other interesting [things] that are happening, as well. Republicans are outpacing Democrats on registration in some of these key states. More Americans are registered [as Republicans] than Democrats for really the first time I can remember in my lifetime.”
But that fact, Isgur opined, may also be misleading to Republicans who assume it’s a sure sign that Trump is pulling away at the polls. “There’s questions about whether that’s a lagging indicator. Republicans also have one other problem, which is, they’re so used to having that Electoral College advantage. The problem is that, as our states become more partisan, like the redder states get redder and the bluer states get bluer, Donald Trump may be outperforming what he did in 2020 and still lose, because as long as those new demographics or groups are in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, like, states he’s already winning, he’s actually losing his Electoral College advantage.”
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