The Harris messaging challenge

Democrats open source messaging data, the Biden drop-out market, using data to uncover a rigged election, one professor's ChatGPT trick

No. 325 | August 9, 2024

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Democratic-aligned groups have released a treasure trove of internal Harris messaging data. First up is Blueprint, the Reid Hoffman-backed polling effort, which gives us the best and worst-testing anti-Harris attacks and their suggested responses: 

Setting aside that the messages are too long and would never fit in a :30, none of these results are surprising. The border and inflation remain Harris’s main challenges just as they did with Joe Biden. Beyond the ones listed here, I would also say that there is good reason why the Trump campaign and SuperPAC were out with ads on bailing out the Minneapolis protesters and letting gang members go free in San Francisco. And above, the broader “San Francisco liberal” sticks more than the Extremely Online attacks on legitimacy and DEI, but not as much as the straightforward criticism of the Biden-Harris record on the economy and the border. 

Blueprint’s best-testing responses to these attacks are all pure positive…