Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson claimed on his podcast Friday that Democratic lawmakers are now “campaigning” as supporters of former President Donald Trump due to concerns that Vice President Kamala Harris may struggle to win this November.
Recent ads from several Democratic Senate candidates appear to highlight Trump favorably as their campaigns near the finish line. On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” Hanson noted that recent polls now show Trump in the lead, adding that the rise in support for the former president is starting to “worry” down-ballot Democrats.
“What’s worrying them now — cause why is [Bob] Casey, for example, or why is Tammy Baldwin or why are any of these Senate [candidates] … campaigning as if they’re Trump supporters? They all voted to impeach him to convict him in the impeachment trial of 2021. They hate him,” Hanson said.
“So it tells me that they don’t have confidence that she’s going to win and why is she doing the interviews when she wouldn’t get close to them? It tells me her internal polls suggest she’s not going to win. And why suddenly is it no longer ‘Trump’s weird,’ ‘Vance is weird’? Now it’s, ‘Unfit dictator — fascist.’ It’s really personal and it’s starting to, as I said before, it’s starting to have the beginning of a 1980 Jimmy Carter sure win mid-October to collapse,” Hanson continued. “That’s what they’re worried about.”
Democratic lawmakers, including Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin, rolled out new ads in October promoting Trump-era policies, such as prioritizing American materials in infrastructure projects, supporting fracking, and opposing mandates on electric vehicles.
Since September, Democrats have reportedly become more concerned about Harris’s declining poll numbers, with analysts warning she is losing support among key voting blocs, especially Hispanic and Black men.
Last week, RealClearPolitics polling averages showed the former president leading in several swing states. Additionally, the latest Wall Street Journal poll indicates Trump now holds a two-point lead over Harris, with 47% to her 45%.
