{"id":3174,"date":"2024-10-16T16:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2024-10-17T00:58:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T00:58:01","slug":"us-democrats-worried-about-pennsylvania-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/us-democrats-worried-about-pennsylvania-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"US Democrats worried about Pennsylvania \u2013 Politico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regional rivalries among campaign staff could reportedly spell trouble for Kamala Harris<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of the top Democrats in Pennsylvania are reportedly unhappy with the way Vice President Kamala Harris has run her campaign in the biggest battleground state in the upcoming US presidential election.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania accounts for 19 Electoral College votes and Democrats are hoping their traditional strongholds of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will come through for Harris on November 5 against Republican Donald Trump. Both parties are on track to spend over $500 million in TV advertising there, more than in any other state.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats fret that any mistake here, big or small, could tip the election away from them,\u201d<\/em> Politico reported on Wednesday, citing insider sources.<\/p>\n

\u201cPennsylvania is such a mess, and it\u2019s incredibly frustrating,\u201d<\/em> said one elected Democrat, who asked to remain anonymous. \u201cI feel like we\u2019re going to win here, but we\u2019re going to win it in spite of the Harris state campaign.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Harris\u2019 campaign manager for Pennsylvania, Nikki Lu, has drawn criticism from the Philadelphia set. One strategist claimed that she \u201cempowers a culture\u201d<\/em> that has left local elected officials feeling \u201cunengaged and disrespected.\u201d<\/em> Lu is from Pittsburgh, on the other side of the state.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia City Councilmember Kendra Brooks told Politico that \u201cthere\u2019s been a lot of struggles\u201d<\/em> within the campaign, due to \u201cfolks coming into Philadelphia that are making assumptions about what needs to happen in Philadelphia and not necessarily having the relationships to move Philadelphia politics.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Lu has also been accused of not doing enough to attract black and Latino voters, seen as key Democrat voting blocs. While complaints about voter outreach are common among Pennsylvania Democrats, \u201cthis level of frustration and finger-pointing is not,\u201d<\/em> Politico noted.<\/p>\n

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The campaign\u2019s initial Latino coalition manager, Mariel Joy Kornblith Martin, quit after just two weeks on the job and sent a memo to state party leaders in August complaining she was not given the data or the infrastructure she needed. A Harris campaign official said Martin\u2019s claim was \u201cuntrue.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

According to former Philadelphia city council member Maria Quinones-Sanchez, the campaign has become \u201cso scientific around door-knocking and connecting, that they forget that culturally, Latinos like just noise.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need young African American men to come home. We need African American women… to come out in record numbers, and disaffected African Americans,\u201d<\/em> said Ryan Boyer, an important Philadelphia labor leader. He accused Lu of being \u201cslow\u201d<\/em> to reach out to surrogates that could help with the black community, such as Mayor Cherelle Parker.<\/p>\n

Lu herself did not comment to Politico. Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez sent a statement that the Democrats were \u201crunning the largest and most sophisticated operation in Pennsylvania history,\u201d<\/em> with 50 staff reaching out to black voters and another 30 to Latinos.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, however, the campaign brought in President Barack Obama\u2019s former field director for Pennsylvania, Paulette Aniskoff, as well as several other operatives with ties to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regional rivalries among campaign staff could reportedly spell trouble for Kamala Harris Some of the top Democrats in Pennsylvania are reportedly unhappy with the way Vice President Kamala Harris has run her campaign in the biggest battleground state in the upcoming US presidential election. Pennsylvania accounts for 19 Electoral College votes and Democrats are hoping…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}