Former Obama Adviser Worried Kamala Closing Message Not Landing

Kamala Harris was gifted this nomination by the Democrat Party and Joe Biden.

She loaded her campaign up with former Obama officials and operatives to try to recreate that 2008 magic, but it is not working.

Now, some former Obama advisers are criticizing the campaign, saying that the message being sent out by Harris is not landing down the stretch.

Going the Wrong Way

When Harris was first handed the nomination, it came with a significant lead over Donald Trump nationally as well as in most key swing states.

While I was not panicking, I had no problem saying that I was not comfortable with where Trump stood only three months before the election.

Kamala being Kamala, her mouth has continued to be her own worst enemy, and she has done nothing but backslide since the DNC.

To that point, Former Obama adviser Tommy Vietor believes that Harris is sending the wrong message, more or less reviving Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign strategy.

Her campaign is now hanging its hat on the “bad orange man” narratives, such as Trump being a fascist and a Nazi.

Vietor stated, “I’m a little worried about the balance of the moment and not because of the message testing of ads. It’s just because you have to ask yourself what is breaking through in the closing days, and I do think it is primarily this conversation about Trump and fascism.

“I think it’s valuable to say the top people that worked for him don’t trust him to be president again — I think that’s alarming new information, probably for a lot of people. But it’s gotten mixed in with conversations about praising Hitler’s generals and things that I think just sound partisan and hyperbolic, and a lot of people brush it off.”

Someone then challenged Vietor, saying the media is also asking this question, but that mattered little to the former Obama operative.

He responded, “I’m not blaming anyone, I’m talking about the closing conversation that people are hearing, and I think it’s overly tilted away from an economic message right now in ways that worry me.

“Because every focus group and piece of polling we see shows you that voters primarily care about those issues, and they’re also, there’s a pretty easy, ready-made answer for Trump, which is we saw him for four years, people don’t think it was that bad, and so some of the language used to describe him can seem ridiculous to people. So that’s where my anxiety comes from.”

From my perspective, voters have fatigued on this front because Trump did nothing in office the first time to suggest he would be a fascist.

Furthermore, if anyone should be accused of fascist behavior, it is Democrats, not Republicans.

Undecided voters are worried about one thing right now, and that would be their bank accounts.

Unless Harris can prove to people she can stop the slide, ultimately, those people are either going to sit out the election or pull the handle for Trump.

Vietor hit the nail on the head, but I honestly think at this point, there is no way Harris can make a big enough pivot to win people over.