Leftist news publications like the New York Times usually find ways to cover for the Democrat politicians. But this time they did the opposite.
As the New York Times just stabbed Kamala Harris in the back with this scathing report.
Democrat elites in Washington, D.C. are breathing a sigh of relief because President Joe Biden finally announced his intentions to no longer run for reelection this year.
These same elitists are now pushing for Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democrat Party’s nominee for president. And sure, that’s in some ways an improvement over the 81-year-old Biden who can barely put a sentence together during a press conference or debate and is in clear cognitive decline, but the Left better be careful for what they wish for.
Because new reports are showing that Harris’ chances at getting elected aren’t as good as some Democrats want to believe.
Kamala Harris Deemed Least Electable by New York Times Writers Amid Democratic Leadership Shakeup
Vice President Kamala Harris is considered the least “electable” among potential Democratic candidates to replace President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, according to a Monday report at the New York Times.
The report highlights the Democrats’ lack of a formal democratic process to select a new de facto nominee, effectively disregarding the approximately 14 million votes cast for Biden during the Democratic primary.
Many observers argue that Biden’s replacement amounts to a “coup.” Biden stepped down on Sunday after senior Democrats threatened to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to force him out, sources revealed to the New York Post on Monday.
The Times’ analysis found Harris to be the “most risky” and least viable candidate, whereas Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) emerged as the most likely to defeat former President Donald Trump.
In the analysis, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) was identified as the most “exciting” candidate, while Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) were deemed the most “Meh” options.
Other potential candidates, including Governors Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Wes Moore (D-MD), and Andy Beshear (D-KY), as well as Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA), fell somewhere in between.
Barely 12 hours ago, leading writers of the New York Times rated Kamala Harris as the least electable of 10 possible Democratic nominees. Yet the selection process is already over. If Harris loses, as appears likelier than not, the party’s leaders will have much to explain. pic.twitter.com/xFowaJYUmH
— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) July 23, 2024
The Times’ analysis scored candidates on two dimensions: “For the first, on a scale of 0 to 10, 0 means the person would have no chance of beating Trump; 10 means he or she would crush him. For the second, 0 means the person would inspire no enthusiasm; 10 means people would love him or her.”
Ross Barkan of the Times rated Harris’s electability at five and her excitement factor at six: “Harris has a feeble electoral track record — she struggled badly in 2020 and barely, before then, won her first attorney general race in California — but she’ll benefit from a likely unified Democratic establishment, and she can forcefully press the case against Trump on abortion rights. It won’t hurt that she’d be the nation’s first female president and only the second nonwhite politician to occupy the Oval Office.”
Longtime Democratic adviser Doug Sosnik wrote in the New York Times that seven states—Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina—will determine the next president.
Harris’s chances of securing 270 electoral votes become slim if Trump wins one or more of Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin.
The vice president will likely face significant challenges among voters. Her radical ideologies are not likely to resonate in the Blue Wall states. She also doesn’t seem to have a strong appeal in Sunbelt states with larger minority and young voter populations.
A Quinnipiac poll released Monday found Harris holding a 55 percent unfavorable rating among those aged 18-34.
“The Midwest is not where the opportunity is for her,” a Democrat strategist close to Kamala Harris said to Politico Playbook on Tuesday.
“The opportunity with her … is going to be Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania. And however those four states go, the rest of the country will follow.”
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