Politico: Democrats Fear Kamala Harris Is Playing It Too Safe

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We can’t get away from Kamala Harris no matter what we do, but according to Politico, there’s some panic that Donald Trump is everywhere and Harris is playing it too safe.

Haunted by 2016, Democrats fear Kamala Harris is playing it too safe: Trump is everywhere. Democrats are increasingly wondering why Harris isn’t. https://t.co/1npSayvOIO

— Alicia Smith (@Alicia_Smith19) October 5, 2024

Alicia Smith reports:

“Democratic operatives, including some of Harris’s own staffers, are growing increasingly concerned about her relatively light campaign schedule, which has her holding fewer events than Donald Trump and avoiding unscripted interactions with voters and the press almost entirely”

— Alicia Smith (@Alicia_Smith19) October 5, 2024

“And she has spent nearly half of her post-DNC days in Washington.”

Lackluster campaign. I feel like if I were running for president and entering the home stretch of the campaign – people are voting already – I’d be out there as much as possible. But they’re on mute.

— Alicia Smith (@Alicia_Smith19) October 5, 2024

Politico reports:

In interviews with POLITICO, nearly two dozen Democrats described Harris as running a do-no-harm, risk-averse approach to the race they fear could hamper her as the campaign enters its final 30-day stretch.

With early voting by mail and in person already underway in more than half of the country, Harris spent just three days of the last week of September in battleground states. On Sept. 28, when Trump gave a speech in Wisconsin before flying to Alabama for the Georgia-Alabama football game, Harris was attending a fundraiser in San Francisco. And beyond concerns about her schedule, Democrats argue that Harris would benefit from venues that allow her to introduce herself to voters in a more authentic way, such as town hall events, more sit-down interviews and unscripted exchanges with voters.