CNN anchor Jake Tapper surprised his audience by stating that Vice President Kamala Harris needs to hold more interviews, expressing his belief that former President Donald Trump has a competitive advantage over her.
“Are you surprised that she’s not doing like five events a day?” the anchor said to Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator Karen Finney on his show Thursday. “I mean, there’s only 26 days, barnstorming every battleground state, three or four events a day.”
“Forget the interview thing, okay? I realize I’m biased as a reporter. I want interviews,” he said.
“More local news, though,” former White House communications director for Trump, Michael Dubke, said.
“But the local news interviews, town halls, it just doesn’t feel like October with the schedules I’m looking at for both of them,” the anchor hit back. “But I kind of think [Trump] has the edge right now.”
“Well, I don’t know if I agree with that,” Finney said.
“Not the edge thing, but what about, like, how active — what about how active the campaign is?” the anchor said.
“I think they’re being very active. And look, she also has her day job. We do have — we did just have a tremendous storm come through Florida. She was here in Washington to help deal with that to some degree, but I think you’re going to see that activity kick up over the next several weeks, as it should, by the way,” Finney responded.
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Harris is also collapsing with key voter demographics, which could cost her the election.
A growing number of Arab Americans are abandoning the Democrat nominee for former President Donald Trump, Center Square reported.
If true, it could be a crushing blow to the vice president in a must-win swing state like Michigan which has a sizeable Arab American population.
The Arab American Institute conducted a poll of 500 Arab American registered voters and discovered that the former president and the vice president have close to an even split of the Arab American vote at 42 percent-41 percent.
But it gets worse for the Democrat presidential nominee.
Among likely Arab American voters, the former president leads his rival.
“Looking more closely, with those that report they are very likely to vote, Trump leads Harris 46% to 42%, the group said. “Only 79% of Democrats support Harris, while 89% of Republicans support Trump. Kamala Harris regained much of the support Biden lost after October 7th, but Harris remains 18 points below Biden’s 2020 level of support with Arab American voters.”
The war between Israel and Gaza is at the center of the shift and some Arab Americans have decided to vote fr a third party candidate, but the former president has been the beneficiary of the vast number of Arab Americans who have left the vice president.
“All the third-party candidates combined receive just 12% of the Arab American vote. Instead, it’s Trump who is the beneficiary of the community’s anger and despair over the Biden Administration’s failure to prevent the unfolding genocide in Gaza,” the group said.
In September the vice president lost the backing of the Uncommitted National Movement, a well-known anti-war group with strong ties to Michigan’s Palestinian American population.
This could prove to be a significant blow for Harris in the 2024 race. The group said it would not support Harris, citing her refusal to change her position on important foreign policy issues.
The group has been lobbying Harris to visit with families impacted by American-backed bombs in Gaza and to take a more peace-oriented posture on American aid to Israel.
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