Democratic Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell said Monday that with less than three weeks until the election, voters in her state still don’t know who Vice President Kamala Harris is.
Former President Donald Trump currently has a slight lead over Harris in Michigan, giving her a nearly 1 percentage point lead. According to to the average of RealClearPolling. Dingell told “America’s Newsroom” that Harris and her running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are working to defeat Trump and his running mate, Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, in Michigan. “We understand that we need to better define ourselves,” he said. , November. (Related: CNN panel ‘surprised’ Kamala Harris couldn’t point to anything different from Biden)
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“I don’t think people know about Kamala Harris yet. I do. I know how great she is. They need to feel her. We all know Donald Trump -I know who Trump is. I don’t use the adjectives that I sometimes want to use, but he is who he is. People love him because he is passionate and says what he thinks. ,” Dingell said. “They want to know that they know her, and I think she’s trying to do that. She’s doing more media interviews and doing different places. Masu.”
“Frankly, I wish they would have let her go to the union hall.” And I said this, we didn’t talk about trade in the right way in 2016,” she added. “They don’t want to be taken for granted. They feel taken for granted and they want to be spoken to directly…What she’s doing today in Detroit is to It’s a direct take on, and a lot of other people are trying to get into it.”
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten expressed surprise Monday at the growing number of “young black men” leaving the Democratic Party over multiple elections against Trump.
Harris told “The View” on Oct. 8 that she has “nothing in mind” about how she would govern differently than President Joe Biden.
“I think she’s in a very difficult position because she was his vice president. And, you know, I’m still old-fashioned and think loyalty is important. But look, we… has to deal with the economy. She has to take care of that and talk about what she’s going to do,” Dingell said. “I think she’s going to have to talk about how she’s going to protect jobs, revive manufacturing, lower the cost of food in grocery stores, and what she’s going to do. We have to be very clear. And now, hopefully, she’s going to do that too in the next few days.
Newsmax political analyst Mark Halperin warned Tuesday that she is “slow to define herself” and “needs to clarify her differences with Joe Biden.”
“This was a short campaign, but when you look at her schedule, there were many days with one event, zero events, and a lot of staff meetings,” Halperin said. “And if the goal is to define herself, she would rather have someone else do it for her than do it herself, hour by hour.”
Mr. Trump also currently holds a narrow lead over Ms. Harris in five of the top seven other battleground states, with the vice president holding only a slight lead over the former president in Wisconsin. According to RealClearPolling average.
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