While responding to the tightening polls in her home state on Fox News Tuesday morning, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) reportedly cautioned her fellow Democrats that the public continues to lack an understanding of the identity of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, both as Vice President and as the Democratic presidential nominee.
She made this observation after anchor Dana Perino inquired about the most effective “mechanism” for reaching voters and which constituencies could potentially influence Michigan to support Harris or Donald Trump.
“There are real constituencies that can make a difference, and I see you’ve- they’ve got to be focused on and talk to between now and Election Day. The first constituency is union halls. And you’ve got to- I don’t think people know Kamala Harris yet. I do, I know how great she is. They need to, you know, they need to feel her,” Dingell said.
“You know, we all know who Donald Trump is. I’m not going to use any adjectives I some moments would like to. But he is who he is. He’s passionate and he says what he thinks, and people know him. They want to know that they know her. I think she’s trying to do that. She’s doing more media interviews. She’s doing different places, and they just need to, I wish they’d just let her go into the union hall, quite frankly.” she continued.
“You’ve seen a lot of discussion, I identified this a couple of months ago, is young black men, who, and it’s not her problem, it’s Democrats’ problems. And I’ve said this, it’s the way we didn’t talk about trade in 2016 in the right way. They don’t want to be taken for granted. They feel taken for granted, they want to be talked to directly. Today’s- what she’s doing in Detroit today is taking that on directly.” Dingell added.
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