She really presents a conundrum for Team Trump,and you can see that in the confusion/mixed messages they've been sending while trying to mount an attack strategy. One Trump ally claims she's a "socialist", and an hour later another one comment's on how she is seen in progressive quarters as being too hard-line when she was a Prosecutor.
The problem is that both those lines of attack serve to widen her base of support. Calling her "socialist" makes her more palatable to progressives that Biden needs to attract while referring to her as "tough on crime" undermines Trump's own phony "law and order President" mantra. As usual with Trump, it's red meat for the base but it does nothing to widen his base or blunt the anti-Trump vote.
"If the last 24 hours is any indication, the strategy of President Trump’s reelection campaign and his supporters will be to paint
Sen. Kamala Harris, former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate, as a tool of the
radical left, and also too cozy with Wall Street. Too tough on criminal suspects and also anti-police. In the pocket of Silicon Valley. Mean to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Friendly with Jeffrey Epstein’s law firm. Pro-Medicare for All. For open borders and sanctuary cities. For legalization. Against fracking. A socialist. A capitalist. A weak politician. And a “phony.”
In other words, everything that Republicans have ever said about Democrats and some things that they haven’t ever tried."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-attacks-strategy-kamala-harris-biden-vp-pick-172027389.html
There were a large number of persuadables and undecideds that broke late for Trump in 2016. This year those numbers are far fewer, heavily seem to prefer Biden, and the anti-Trump sentiment that led to record numbers of Dem voters in 2018 is even more entrenched today. Trump has done NOTHING to blunt that.
Here's an interesting analysis from the Houston Chronicle which discusses why Texas Dems are thrilled with Harris, and why they feel that she is the best VP Choice that Biden could have made regarding his chances to flip Texas...
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/po...oonReport&utm_term=news&utm_content=headlines