The Associated Press | Matt Rourke
Vice President Harris today will appear on ABC’s “The View,” Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show and CBS’s “Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” seeking to expand her support among younger, college-educated supporters.
Harris is eager to revive a diverse under-45 voting coalition that helped Democrats win the White House in 1992, 1996, 2008, 2012 and 2020. It’s why her communications are aimed at broadcast news consumers and micro targeted to audiences interested in entertainment and celebrities. She is perpetually issue-focused and also biographical, an avowed foe of former President Trump and a friend of the working class, the middle-class and fence-sitters.
Harris appeared Monday on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” where she declined to say why the administration didn’t act sooner to curb an influx of immigrants, while her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night ABC talk show on Monday. Trump will seek to woo Latino voters during a televised Univision town hall event tonight, while Harris will do the same on Thursday.
▪ The Hill’s The Memo: Harris’s media blitz won’t silence critics.
▪ The Wall Street Journal: Where “60 Minutes” and “Call Her Daddy” fit into Harris’s unorthodox media strategy.
She recently ran campaign ads in South Florida near Trump’s stomping grounds, just to get in his head, while the former president will arrive in California on Saturday to skewer her in her progressive home state, but aimed at an audience far outside the Left Coast. Trump today will court voters in President Biden’s hometown: Scranton, Pa.
In the final few weeks until Election Day, Trump has turned to billionaire Elon Musk as a celebrity influencer among voters drawn to wealthy, iconoclastic entrepreneurs. Harris seeks to amp up the party’s excitement factor with former President Obama, who will appear in Pittsburgh on Thursday to help the Democratic ticket in must-win Pennsylvania.
The Obama of 2008 told Pennsylvania voters they had a choice between more of the same and change.
“Change does not come easy because the status quo does not relinquish power,” Obama said 16 years ago. “So we’re going to have to fight for it.”
This year’s theme from the former president, who selected Biden as his vice president, is a calculated twist: Change means turning the page away from Biden’s predecessor, not rejecting the administration in office. Change is synonymous with a new steward for continued policies. Obama’s theme years ago was “hope.” Harris’s is “joy.” There is a through-line.“My opponents have said these are just pretty words,” Obama told voters in 2008. “But the reason you need hope and faith is because things are tough.”
