Is Trump's "Red Wall" Crumbling?

 Maybe:

 


The contrast is stark. As we saw during the Democratic Convention last week, quite a few of the speakers were Republican Party members who endorsed Harris. It's clearly not because they see eye with Harris on the issues. Quite the opposite. But they do share a love of our nation in common with their Democratic counterparts and are willing to be part of what in different contexts would be called a popular front. We've seen since then other former staffers (not only Trump's) from previous GOP presidential campaigns and Presidencies endorse Harris. They've turned their backs on Trump, and with good reason. He was unfit for office in 2016 and he is even more unfit today. For many, the events of January 6th that resulted in a coup attempt turned out to be the last straw. Others might be looking carefully at the policies promoted in Project 2025, which is very much tied to Trump, and realized that those policies were simply weird: un-American and more befitting more authoritarian nations such as the Russian Federation.

What this all means for the so-called "Red Wall" states that Trump was supposed to have on his side remains to be seen. Harris and Trump are probably in a statistical tie in Georgia as of now. That was not supposed to happen this year when Biden was still the presumptive incumbent nominee before he wisely dropped out. We are 10 weeks out from election day. A lot can happen between now and then. One smart move on the part of the Harris team has been reaching out to conservatives and Republican-leaning independents and bringing them into our coalition. My advice is to welcome our conservative friends who simply cannot stomach another Trump term. We all probably have more in common than the narrow confines of social media might lead folks to believe.

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