Vice President Kamala Harris is drawing undecided voters to her campaign with policy proposals and messaging on a crucial issue, according to a new report.
The release of a stunning September jobs report as early voting gets underway is taking the wind out of former President Donald Trump's primary attack on Harris' economic policy, the New Republic reported Friday.
"I’m not sure people appreciate the magnitude of one of Harris’s biggest achievements in this campaign: fighting Trump to a near-draw on the economy," wrote staff writer Greg Sargent. "Harris is now dead even with Trump on which candidate likely voters trust on 'getting inflation under control.'"
Sargent argued Harris has work do, but the work she's done has created crucial campaign momentum.
"Harris’s messaging is working," Sargent wrote. "Harris has poured immense resources into highlighting the aspects of her economic agenda that are focused on affordability: Her campaign has spent $35 million broadcasting just three ads about her policies to curb costs on a variety of fronts, ads that have run over 50,000 times."
The Democratic presidential nominee has also successfully distanced herself from economic problems voters attribute to President Joe Biden, according to the report.
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"Harris may have broken out of that doom loop, in part through the sheer energy of her performance," Sargent wrote.
"The media focus on Harris has lifted her approval, which in turn has probably led voters to be open to appreciating actual economic conditions—in which both inflation and joblessness are low."
Sargent spoke to Never Trump strategist Sarah Longwell who detailed her findings from focus groups on undecided and swing voters.
“Her current economic proposals give voters something forward-looking to evaluate,” Longwell said. “You’ll now hear some voters saying Harris’s policies will be more helpful to their families than Trump’s.”
Sargent argued if Harris can continue to make progress selling undecided Americans on her policy platform she can expect victory in November.
"If she can persuade remaining swing voters that the Harris economy of the future is not the Biden economy of the present—or, at least, the one that many voters perceive—and that it is superior to, well, whatever it is Trump is telling us he’ll do, then she can win," he concluded.
"The new jobs report suggests the pieces are falling into place for her to do just that."
