Kamala Harris is riding high after she was parachuted in to replace Joe Biden.
But troubled waters could lie ahead for her campaign.
And a journalist is sounding the alarm on this doomsday scenario for Kamala Harris.
Katie Couric says Democrats are hemorrhaging working-class voters
The Republican Party has made major gains with working-class voters under former President Donald Trump.
Working-class voters in the Rust Belt states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania put him in the White House in the 2016 Election.
President Joe Biden managed to claw some of the voters back in the 2020 election.
It appeared that Democrats might have stabilized their losses with them.
Former network news anchor Katie Couric warned the bottom is still dropping out for Democrats with working-class voters during an appearance on former Obama White House deputy chief of staff Alyssa Mastromonaco’s Hysteria podcast.
The pair discussed the state of the Presidential race after Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democrat nominee.
Couric noted that the current line of attack from Democrats and their media allies – calling Trump and his running mate, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), “weird” – wasn’t enough.
“Two things can be true, right?” Couric said. “You can think that their behavior and their rhetoric is weird, but you can also do a better job of reaching out to disaffected voters.”
She said that Republicans are making the biggest gains with working-class voters she’s seen in her lifetime.
“I think that there needs to be a greater connection between the working-class and the Democratic Party because, let’s face it…the Democrats have kind of lost the working-class,” Couric explained. “It was never that way during all my years of covering politics.”
Democrats losing crucial voting bloc in swing states
Couric thought that Democrats look like the part of out-of-touch elitists.
“You had the head of the Teamsters at the RNC [Republican National Convention], you have people buying into this notion that Republicans care about dinner table issues much more than Democrats,” Couric stated. “And these narratives, I think, have become too deeply entrenched about liberal college-educated elites who are condescending.”
This is a voting block that Democrats can’t afford to lose, according to Couric.
“They can’t just give up on that voting bloc… [they should say] ‘Hey, we care about you, we care about your issues, we know a lot of things have really been hard…but this is how we’re going to help,’” Couric said. “I just want to see her [Kamala] with a welding hat on, working with regular Joes.”
Biden spent decades building his “Scranton Joe” persona to appeal to working class Americans.
Harris putting a hard hat on would be a repeat of 1988 Democrat Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis riding in a tank.
Now, the Democrat ticket is being led by a San Francisco Democrat.
Couric thought that former First Lady Hillary Clinton calling Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables” in the 2016 election helped lead to the collapse of Democrats’ working-class support.
The path of the White House this election runs through Rust Belt battleground states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
Those states are home to large populations of working-class voters.
And that voting bloc could decide the next occupant of the White House.
