Vice President Kamala Harris held her first campaign event as a presidential candidate in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Yahoo Finance Senior Columnist Rick Newman joins Catalysts to discuss the state of the 2024 presidential race and Harris’s record-breaking fundraising.
“Individual voters are fired up to support Kamala Harris. That the fundraising number, I believe, is now around $126 million raised in small-dollar donations since she became the leading candidate for the Democrats and Biden stepped down,” Newman explains. He notes that the money raised will be used for the campaign to open offices in swing states and hire staff to phone bank, as well as be used for advertising. With President Joe Biden out of the running, the Trump campaign has had to pivot and figure out a new strategy to go after Kamala Harris.
Newman explains that some election forecast models are based on economics in swing states. Therefore, Harris should focus on economic policies like inflation, unemployment, and cost of living when campaigning in swing states. He says, “One of the super most important things she needs to do is boost voters opinion of Democrats’ ability to handle the economy, because it’s still much lower than their their belief in Trump being able to handle the economy pretty well.”
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