Now that Vice President Kamala Harris has been selected as the Democratic candidate, the presidential election has been reset. For example, the recent greatness of America Surveys in battleground states reveal close race Currently, Harris leads former President Donald Trump by just one percentage point (47% to 46%) among 1,400 voters across seven battleground states.
But the same poll found that she remains very weak on issues like the border, reparations, food prices and guns. If the Trump campaign and its allies can successfully reveal Harris for who she really is, the honeymoon period will fade and battleground voters will reject the California leftist. (Related article: Alan Dershowitz: Did Harris reject Gov. Shapiro because of Jew-haters in the party?)
Surprisingly, Harris missed a key opportunity to pull away victory in Pennsylvania, America's most important battleground state.
According to a poll commissioned by my labor advocacy group, American Federation of Labor,choice Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro That would have given Harris a substantial advantage in the Keystone State.
in particular, Public Opinion Poll The survey was conducted among 600 voters in Pennsylvania. Iron Lightshows Harris leading by two percentage points in the Keystone State, with 45% for Harris, 43% for Trump, 6% for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and 6% undecided. This narrow lead for Harris is within the poll's four percentage point margin of error.
But before Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, we asked Pennsylvania voters if anything would have been different if they had chosen Shapiro, and the results were striking for Shapiro, who remains a hugely popular figure in the state. (Related article: Betsy McCaughey: Kamala Harris may find male voters don't like her as much)
Harris-Shapiro jumped out to a 5-point lead in our poll (47% to 42%). In a battleground state where the margin of victory is so small, a 3 percentage point lead is a big move and would almost certainly win the state. Moreover, in our poll, Harris' lead would have been outside the margin of error.
So how do we explain the political malfeasance of not picking Shapiro, and why did Harris pick a governor from a non-swing state who is in fact a much more radical figure? About the policy She brings no significant electoral advantage.
The only likely answer is simple and sinister: Shapiro is Jewish and pro-Israel.
The evidence is in the polls, and the Biden-Harris campaign would no doubt have looked at similar polls to validate Shapiro's selection. Wiping Pennsylvania off the map would have made it much harder for Trump to win 270 electoral votes.
But Harris signaled to the rest of the country that she was aligning herself with the most extreme and anti-American people. Anti-Israel, anti-Semitic extremists The left in American politics Grow big more Openly anti-SemiticThis is evident in the hateful rhetoric and threats that have marked protests on college campuses across America in defense of Gaza terrorists.
Now Harris has shown that she either actually aligns herself with these toxic, bigoted groups or is too afraid of them to provoke a political confrontation. Either way, her shameful decision gives cover to those who burn the American flag, denigrate Jews, and glorify terrorism. (Related article: Daniel McCarthy: Kamala Harris's biggest strength? Her elusive track record)
The fact that she risked her own election to appease such forces and tacitly endorsed those hateful ideas reveals the kind of person Harris really is.
Steve Cortez is a former senior adviser to President Donald Trump, a former commentator for Fox News and CNN, and the president of the Federation of American Labor, a right-wing populist pro-labor group.
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