Former President Bill Clinton’s one-time pollster Doug Schoen raised alarm Wednesday on Fox News about Vice President Kamala Harris’s ability to maintain Democratic strongholds in the upcoming elections.
During an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” Schoen highlighted significant vulnerabilities in what is traditionally considered the Democratic “blue wall” — Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Laura Ingraham opened the discussion by asking Schoen for his perspective on Harris, pointing out that the internal divisions within the party so close to election day were a troubling sign for the vice president.
“It’s, in fact, Laura, you’re absolutely right, a very bad sign. I’m picking up from my Democratic friends and sources precisely what you’re reporting. The so-called blue wall of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania is eroding for the Democrats,” Schoen told Ingraham. “There is a level of disorganization on the ground and incoherence vis-à-vis the messaging that is clear.”
He also criticized Harris’s performance in an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, suggesting it reflected broader campaign issues. “The Harris campaign really doesn’t have a closing message or strategy, as we, I think, saw in Brett Baier’s interview with Kamala Harris today,” Schoen said.
Ingraham pressed the issue of Harris’s plans, particularly when it came to the economy, pointing out that the vice president still struggled to offer a concrete answer beyond directing voters to her website.
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“There is not a clear sense as to what she’s going to do different than Joe Biden, which, as you point out, close to 60% of America has made them feel worse off. She hasn’t articulated a coherent plan,” Schoen explained. “And it’s, frankly, perfectly logical that she would say different times, different circumstances, different plan, here’s what I’m doing, here’s what Trump’s doing, vote for me. She hasn’t done it. And I don’t have a sense, Laura. She’s going to do it.”
“I don’t think it helped at all. I think she felt she’d reach some swing voters. But to me, the absence of clear answers, the real sense of, you know, confusion to perfectly logical questions that Bret asked, to me suggests that it underscored all of the issues and concerns that few undecided swing voters have. Don’t think it helped a bit,” Schoen said when Ingraham asked him whether the Fox interview could have helped Harris.
Schoen mentioned last week that Donald Trump’s rising popularity among minority voters could fracture the Democrats’ grip on key battleground states. Schoen stressed that if Pennsylvania shifts toward Trump, it could be the tipping point that ends the race decisively.
A poll from Michigan News Source and MIRS shows Trump leading in Michigan, pushing his chances of winning the Electoral College to 58.8% against Harris. This represents a notable shift from the previously close contests in this key battleground, as reported by The New York Times and Siena College in September.
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