Evan Roth Smith on why Kamala Harris should break from Biden on key issues

Slingshot partner Evan Roth Smith told the Wall Street Journal’s Tarini Parti that the Harris campaign was making a mistake by failing to clearly depart from the incumbent president’s policies.

“They were a missed opportunity to do something voters will reward,” said Evan Roth Smith, a Democratic pollster for Blueprint, which found that messages that showed a clear break from Biden on specific issues performed the best with voters overall and with independent voters. “She doesn’t need to stab the president in the back. Just pick a specific issue that is of high importance to voters and draw a really clear distinction.” 

Read the full Wall Street Journal article here.