How blue candidates might win in red districts
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🗓️ 22 August 2024
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To win the White House, the Harris-Walz ticket will need to compete in purple and even red areas.
At the Democratic National Convention, delegates and other attendees from conservative parts of the country offer what they think their party needs to do to reach voters in swing states and Republican strongholds.
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| 0:00.0 | Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir started his speech on stage at the Democratic National Convention by talking about abortion rights as a matter of humanity and empathy and as a winning issue for his re-election campaign. |
| 0:15.1 | And I beat Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell's hand-pick candidate by more than five percentage |
| 0:20.5 | points. |
| 0:22.0 | Bashir is an increasingly rare figure, a Democrat who holds statewide office in a state where |
| 0:27.6 | politics is dominated by Republicans. |
| 0:31.0 | In Kentucky, Republicans have a supermajority in the state legislature and both U.S. Senate seats. |
| 0:37.2 | But as he mentioned, Governor Bashir won another term in 2023. |
| 0:41.3 | This November, we're going to beat them again. |
| 0:45.0 | It's a useful example for the Harris Wall's campaign. |
| 0:50.0 | One of Donald Trump's most common attacks on Kamala Harris is that she represents the most |
| 0:55.1 | left-wing slice of America. |
| 0:57.7 | And she is a radical left San Francisco liberal. |
| 1:01.8 | When you look at her history as a candidate, it is true that before Harris became |
| 1:05.6 | Vice President, she has only won elections in solidly blue liberal places to become |
| 1:11.1 | San Francisco District Attorney, Attorney General for the State of California, and then a Senator from California. |
| 1:19.0 | Consider this. To win the White House, the Harris Wall's ticket will need to appeal to |
| 1:24.4 | voters in purple, maybe even red areas. We ask Democrats who live in those areas |
| 1:29.7 | what could make that happen? |
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