Washington Examiner senior columnist Salena Zito anticipates that Vice President Kamala Harris‘s closing message to voters that her opponent, former President Donald Trump, is a “fascist” will not win any voters to her side.
There is a little over a week left until Election Day, and Harris has turned to referring to Trump as a “fascist” akin to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the final days before voters decide who to elect. Meanwhile, a RealClearPolitics poll average from Monday morning showed Trump has a 0.1-point lead, which slipped in the days following this name-calling.
“What [Harris’s] challenge is in a closing message what tends to work best for voters is something aspirational. ‘I am going to take you to a better place,’” Zito said on Fox News’s Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy. “Both [Harris] and both former President [Barack] Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have made this a very dark sort of message of ‘something very wicked this way is coming.’ I don’t know that appeals to a voter that is looking to get across the finish line for Harris.”
Harris has only been on the campaign trail since July when President Joe Biden abruptly decided not to run for reelection. Her sudden rise to the top of the ticket has left voters unsure about how far left Harris leans or how central she is.
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“I’m not quite certain that’s the best message to take someone over the finish line, to scare them about their opponent,” Zito said. “Now maybe they have polling that shows something different, but I find voters are turned off by that kind of messaging.”
Zito has interviewed 22 presidential candidates in her career, including, most recently, Trump.