U.S. presidential election: A presidential race twist that must infuriate Republicans.
SlateKamala Harris, by most available measures, has run a successful campaign so far. Related From Slate The State That’s Emerging as Harris’ Biggest Potential Pickup “He kept good relations with the Fortune 500 presence here,” Patrick Coolican, the editor in chief of an independent news site called the Minnesota Reformer, told me. A national conversation about whether Harris is too radical and hostile to “job creators” would be Donald Trump’s best-case scenario at this point in the race; think of this part of her message as a friendly suggestion to business leaders and CNBC anchors not to participate in one. “We asked in our last survey, which was done right after the debate, which candidate would better handle the ‘cost of living,’ and Trump had only a 2 point edge on that, 42–40,” Blumenthal said. “We had follow-ups for anyone who said they either watched the debate or saw enough coverage of it that they felt they had an opinion, and we said, ‘Who do you think gave better answers on each of these topics,’ one of which was cost of living, and they gave Harris a 45–39 advantage over Trump.” This might not matter as much if Harris were facing an opponent who was mentally organized enough to purposefully drive the national conversation back to the current administration’s alleged role in creating the high cost of living.