MSNBC political analyst raises red flag over major Harris campaign misstep
During her appearance on Friday's episode of "Morning Joe," a frantic Elise Jordan explained that Donald Trump's presidential campaign has hit upon an effective message that has played out for weeks with little to no push-back from Vice President Kamala Harris' team.
As the political analyst detailed, an ad pinning blame on a Trump administration policy has been highly effective in turning potential Harris votes against her.
The ad in question, which has reportedly been run tens of thousands of time during football games, makes it appear that Harris originated a rule providing gender-affirming care to federal prisoners and undocumented immigrants which Jordan claimed is hitting home with male voters.
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As she told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, "I think Democrats have done a great job on abortion, making it about basic human rights for women. You look at cultural issues, how the Trump campaign shifted their ads from an economic focus to an anti-trans ad they run during football games in Wisconsin and everywhere."
"There's no reason [Sen.] Tammy Baldwin should be down, that her numbers should be dropping in Wisconsin; she's a very popular senator who has done good things in the state, she's running against an outsider from Orange County. The trans ad has had impact," she elaborated.
That led to a discussion among the panel members that the quote from Harris on gender-affirming surgery was her stating she was following the Trump-era ruling.
"We've talked about this earlier," Scarborough replied. "They've run that 30,000 times during football games, it's having an impact. The [Harris] campaign is blind to it. They're blind to it and I don't know if they think they're too good to respond to an ad."
"I spoke to a Wisconsin operative who knows the state well, who was surprised at how many days it's taken for there to be any response to that ad," Jordan reported. " That ad is hitting a cultural just ... pressure point. Just with men, with Black men, with Hispanic men, with men who really, the Trump campaign, it's been their strategy all along to get those men."
Scarborough noted that the anti-Trump Lincoln Project has released an ad pushing back at the trans ad –– which he proceeded to share –– and added, "Now that's something, if they had been running alongside of the 30,000 misleading ads that lie about Kamala Harris when it is actually a Donald Trump policy, pushed by Donald Trump's director of Bureau of Prisons, pushed by the Justice Department, spelling out the policy about gender-affirming care for inmates from the Trump era, then, you know, this would have been answered."
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