Harris has essentially conceded the point that Americans were better off economically under Trump than they have been under Biden. That doesn’t have to mean she loses the economic argument altogether; she could focus more on Trump’s tariff plans to make it clear that yesterday’s Trump is not really in play.
She has done this–some of her commercials talk about the “Trump sales tax”–but not particularly effectively. She needs to make her anti-tariff case in a much punchier way. Let’s hope we see some of that in the next two weeks.
In the meantime, her commercials citing the statements of former Trump officials about national security and storm assistance are helpful. We need to see more of those for the swing voters, as well.