A sense of panic is beginning to set in with the media as Democrat nominee Kamala Harris struggles to break through with key demographics outside of the “childless cat lady” liberal females who she owns, and it must be due to sexism.
During a panel discussion on Sunday’s edition of NBC flagship “Meet the Press” moderated by host Kristen Welker, veteran commentator Andrea Mitchell bemoaned that the vice president was at a disadvantage to GOP nominee Donald J. Trump with four weeks until the election.
With it looking as though the Democrats’ use of the basement strategy that worked wonders with Joe Biden in 2020 isn’t working, the lack of serious interviews is now coming back to bite Harris big time.
NBC’s Andrea @MitchellReports blames diverse multi-racial misogyny. Harris has “such a big problem with men. I think there’s an undercount of the Trump vote. I think that there’s misogynation in all of this — black and white men. Big problem.” #MTP pic.twitter.com/waZj3mUQvI
— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) October 6, 2024
“I think they’ve got to double down on doing more interviews and serious interviews because what I’m hearing from Democratic and Republican businesspeople and a lot of men – and she’s got such a big problem with men,” she said.
“I think there’s an under-count of the Trump vote,” Mitchell continued. “I think there’s misogynation in – in all of this, black and white men, big problem. But also, the business world, they don’t think she is serious. They don’t think she’s a heavyweight and a lot of this is gender, but she’s got to be more specific about her economic plans.”
It was a stunning admission that the plan of avoiding interviews has blown up.
Welker then asked panelist Amna Nawaz on PBS News for her take on men being turned off by Kamala, a candidate who could even be more unlikable than Hillary Clinton.
“You know, Amna, to Andrea’s point, the gender divide is just so significant. You see the extent to which Harris is winning with women and that Trump is winning with men,” the host said.
“It’s huge. It’s the largest we’ve had in modern history, seems to be getting bigger with time. Look, for people who know who they’re going to bake for. We know, like, 80% of registered voters are kind of baked in, right?” Nawaz responded. “It’s the – the latest PBS News poll now shows some 20 percent of folks say they’re swayable in some way. 15 percent say, “I think I know who I’m voting for, but I might change my mind.” 5% say, “I don’t know who I’m – I’m voting for.”
“But I think with the things they’re looking for at this stage of the game, there’s no one big event, right, that’s going to change people’s minds one way or the other. It comes down to the issues. It comes down to the economy, which is the number one issue, immigration and defense of democracy, which means different things depending on who you talk to,” she said.
“Yeah, especially since there’s no second debate scheduled,” Welker responded, lamenting that Trump wisely chose not to walk into an ambush by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.
Kamala did finally decide to do some interviews of the non-challenging variety including one with neurotic shock jock Howard Stern and the other with the raunchy “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
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