Inside the Democrat implosion as Kamala's team is gripped by fear and 'vibes' drain away: 'Nobody should be even slightly optimistic right now'

Democrats are spending different week wondering if Kamala Harris has fto her momentum successful nan 2024 title wholly gaffe away.

A murderer's statement of bad PR for nan Harris run this week featured continued tanking successful nan polls, a widely panned CNN municipality hall, Donald Trump beating her to nan Joe Rogan bump and moreover fellow Democrats slamming her rhetoric. 

Harris now trails Trump successful nan polling mean successful nan important plaything states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to Real Clear Politics. 

Fear is now gripping Harris' run and nan 'vibes' are draining distant arsenic salient Democratic lawmakers, arsenic good arsenic nan wide media, person been forced to publically admit nan run is faltering astatine nan last hurdle. 

One Democratic strategist admitted to The Hill: 'Yes, it's close, but are things trending our way? No. And nary 1 wants to openly admit that. Could we still win? Maybe. Should anyone beryllium moreover somewhat optimistic correct now? No.'

While immoderate noted that Harris is taking risks for illustration partnering pinch Liz Cheney and holding rallies successful reddish Texas in nan waning weeks of nan campaign, different strategist put it bluntly: 'If this is simply a vibe election, nan existent vibes ain't great.'

Team Harris was intelligibly hoping to make gains pinch her exclusive municipality hallway pinch CNN's Anderson Cooper successful plaything authorities Pennsylvania, which was held successful spot of a statement that Trump refused to participate in.

But it was Harris' inability to supply clear answers connected some home and overseas policy, and trademark meandering responses passim nan 90-minute convention that had moreover CNN's left-leaning panelists ripping her afterwards.

Veteran Democratic strategist David Axelrod, who helped get Barack Obama elected and served arsenic 1 of his apical advisers, summed up Harris' capacity arsenic 'word crockery city.' 

Van Jones, different salient talking caput connected CNN who besides worked successful nan Obama administration, echoed Axelrod's cardinal point.

'The connection crockery worldly gets connected my nerves,' he bluntly said on-air aft nan municipality hallway wrapped. 

'I deliberation immoderate of nan evasions are not necessary.' 

And CNN's Dana Bash said of Harris afterward that 'if her extremity was to adjacent nan deal, they're not judge she did that.' 

Some of Harris' answers moreover angered chap Democrats, for illustration erstwhile she agreed pinch Trump's erstwhile Chief of Staff John Kelly, who this week reiterated his declare that nan erstwhile president wished to norm arsenic a fascist. 

'Yes, I do,' she answered, echoing Joe Biden's sentiment connected nan matter. 'Yes, I do. And I besides judge that nan group who cognize him champion connected this taxable should beryllium trusted.' 

New York City Mayor Eric Adams harshly criticized her for that consequence successful a property convention Saturday. 

'I person had those comments hurled astatine maine by immoderate governmental leaders successful nan city; my reply is 'No,'' he said.

Adams slammed comparisons of Trump to nan likes of Adolf Hitler and asked Harris to reside it down. 

'I cognize what Hitler has done, and I cognize what a fascist authorities looks like. I think, arsenic I person called for complete and complete again, that nan level of conversation, I deliberation we tin each dial down nan temperature,' he added. 

Liberals person grown moreover much despondent aft it emerged that Trump's interview pinch Joe Rogan amassed a staggering 17 cardinal YouTube views successful little than 24 hours.

The three-hour beryllium down covered a wide scope of topics including UFOs, nan John F. Kennedy assassination files, nan separator and patient nutrient successful nan US.

As soon arsenic the episode was released conscionable aft 10pm Eastern Time connected Friday night, viewing figures skyrocketed pinch 300,000 successful nan first 30 minutes.

By comparison, Kamala Harris' quality connected nan Call her Daddy podcast pinch Alex Cooper has clocked conscionable 685,000 views successful nan two weeks since it went live.

The Vice President was besides owed to beryllium interviewed by Rogan, but had to propulsion retired owed to 'scheduling conflicts', a spokesperson said.

However, since specifications of Trump's ratings emerged galore liberals person begun urging Harris to beryllium down pinch nan celebrated podcast host.

Ultimately, it whitethorn beryllium nan polling and Trump's clasp complete various cardinal swing states that does Harris in.

She trails Trump successful nan polling averages successful each purple state: Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina and Georgia.

Biden was capable to return each of those isolated from for North Carolina successful 2020, while losing nan 3 midwestern states was nan extremity of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, pushing Trump to nan White House. 

Senator John Fetterman warned successful an question and reply pinch nan New York Times that Trump's connection is connecting arsenic powerfully arsenic ever successful Pennsylvania. 

'It's astonishing. I was doing an arena successful Indiana County - very, very red. And location was a superstore of Trump stuff, and it was a 100 feet long, and it was dozens of T-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and each kinds of, I mean, it's like, Where does this each travel from? It's nan benignant of point that has taken connected its ain life,' he said.

Fetterman praised Harris' run but was wary of Trump's typical narration pinch his purple authorities and nan entreaty of adding Elon Musk's support, saying that nan Tesla CEO is, successful immoderate ways, 'a bigger prima than Trump.'

'It's conscionable - it's real. And now Musk is joining him. I mean, to a batch of people, that's Tony Stark. That's nan world's richest guy. And he's obviously, and undeniably, a superb guy, and he's saying, Hey, that's my feline for president. That's going to really matter.' 

A Franklin and Marshall College canvass in Pennsylvania shows Trump up of Harris by 50 percent to 49 percent among apt voters, but among each registered voters, nan vice president still has an separator 48 percent to 44 percent. 

In a abstracted Emerson College poll, besides retired of nan Keystone State, Trump has a 1 constituent lead among voters, signaling conscionable really tight nan title genuinely is successful Pennsylvania.

The canvass has nan ex-president astatine 49 percent and nan vice president astatine 48 percent. Another 3 percent of voters had different prime aliases were undecided. 

Democrats for illustration Jim Manley, who helped tally nan precocious Nevada Senator Harry Reid's powerful Nevada governmental machine, person been fuming astir really things person been handled because they still spot this arsenic a winnable election.  

'It's beautiful damn frustrating for it to beryllium truthful adjacent fixed really utmost and unhinged Trump's rhetoric has go successful nan past mates of weeks,' he said.

With Beyonce and Michelle Obama having held run events for Harris complete nan weekend, he's hoping those are a portion of a strategy to get nan vice president complete nan line. 

'I conscionable dream and spot they've sewage a plan,' Manley added.