How do you know Kamala Harris is in trouble, and that the momentum is with former President Donald Trump?
Endangered Democrats in tight Senate races are boasting about their ties to Trump, as they try to run to the middle to appeal to the voters.
We reported earlier about Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) saying in an ad that he bucked Joe Biden to “protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China.” That indicates he knows he needs to align with Trump to improve his chances (even if he doesn’t actually align with Trump generally).
READ MORE: Democrat Bob Casey Cosplays As a Trump Supporter, and It Tells Us Everything About Pennsylvania
But it’s not only Casey in Pennsylvania.
Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) put up an ad, featuring Trump, saying she “got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill”:
Endangered Democrat Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin too!
Aligning herself with Trump and not mentioning Kamala Harris, the presidential nominee of her party, at all.
Oh, man. The Harris team cannot be happy. https://t.co/XK1y44KLeY pic.twitter.com/1mjJFsZwC7
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) October 18, 2024
She’s not only mentioning Trump, but also not mentioning Harris in that ad.
Other Democrats in tough states are also trying to play the Trump card:
Rep. Elissa Slotkin’s (D-Mich.) campaign for Senate also spent more than a $1 million starting mid-August on an ad saying she “wrote a law signed by President Trump forcing drug companies to show their actual prices,” according to AdImpact. [….]
Tester ads have featured Montanans who say they are “lifelong Republicans” or plan to vote for Trump, but back Tester for Senate.
An ad from earlier this year boasts that Brown “wrote a bill that Donald Trump signed to crack down on drugs at the border.”
That last candidate mentioned is Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
They’re blowing up Kamala Harris’ narrative that Trump is unstable/Hitler when they’re including him in ads. Plus, they’re also acknowledging that mentioning Trump is going to help them in their elections, which is a nod to his strength in those swing states. If they thought Harris was winning, they wouldn’t see a need to do that:
Let’s check in on Democrat Senate candidates in the blue wall states:
Baldwin (WI): Putting Trump in her ads
Casey (PA): Putting Trump in his ads
Slotkin (MI): Making ads against EV mandates.They wouldn’t be doing this if they thought Kamala was winning. pic.twitter.com/yN1LZTFjXJ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 18, 2024
Baldwin also was reportedly ducking appearing with Harris recently:
Kamala Harris held 3 events in Wisconsin yesterday. Mark Cuban was there, but no Tammy Baldwin
Baldwin skipped Harris’ previous trip on Sept 20th, too
WI is slipping away from Democrats, but it’s too late to stop it https://t.co/SAXA6oG54C
— Jesse Hunt (@JJHunt10) October 18, 2024
It also points to another reality, that when they need to get elected, they suddenly pitch themselves as centrist or more to the right. That’s an acknowledgment the country is more red than the Democrats generally like to admit:
👀👀 Gallup: First time Republicans have led on Party ID in Q3 of presidential year. pic.twitter.com/Beo4KyoNGB
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) September 24, 2024
We can see that in how the party ID has shifted more to Republicans with an astonishing R+3 in Q3.
