{"id":133584,"date":"2024-08-06T11:57:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T11:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=133584"},"modified":"2024-08-06T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T11:57:26","slug":"strategists-tell-kamala-to-look-north-not-south-for-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=133584","title":{"rendered":"Strategists Tell Kamala to Look North, Not South, for Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notus.org\/harris-2024\/kamala-harris-arizona-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NOTUS<\/a>: &#8220;Kamala Harris\u2019 emergence as her party\u2019s new presumed presidential nominee immediately renewed hope among Democrats that they could win a quartet of battleground \u201cSun Belt\u201d states that had seemingly slipped out of reach for Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Democratic strategists who spoke with NOTUS also have a strong warning: If Harris can\u2019t keep the Midwestern \u201cBlue Wall,\u201d there\u2019s no chance in hell the Sun Belt states would save her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf Democrats lose the Blue Wall, then they lose, period. No matter what happens in Georgia, Arizona, it\u2019s just not gonna happen,\u201d Atlanta-based political consultant Fred Hicks told NOTUS. \u201cSo they absolutely have to hold the Blue Wall, number one. Number two, you&nbsp;<em>want<\/em>&nbsp;to hold as many Sun Belt states as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The battleground Blue Wall \u2014 Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania \u2014 are three states that supported Donald Trump in 2016 after two decades of Democratic dominance before flipping for Biden in 2020. And early polling generally shows them being more favorable for Democrats than the four swing states considered part of the Sun Belt: North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic strategists say they\u2019re excited that Harris can expand on Biden\u2019s 2024 electoral map, forcing Trump to spend time and money in states he must win. But any effort to win the Sun Belt, some of them caution, shouldn\u2019t come at the expense of the trio of Midwestern battlegrounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTUS: &#8220;Kamala Harris\u2019 emergence as her party\u2019s new presumed presidential nominee immediately renewed hope among Democrats that they could win a quartet of battleground \u201cSun Belt\u201d states that had seemingly slipped out of reach for Joe Biden. But Democratic strategists who spoke with NOTUS also have a strong warning: If Harris can\u2019t keep the Midwestern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133585,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133584\/revisions\/133585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}