(DCNF)—Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson stated Thursday on his podcast that Democrats “hate” the middle and lower classes, claiming voters have “had it” with Vice President Kamala Harris’ attempts to appeal to them.

Harris has repeatedly faced criticism for her flip-flopping on left-wing policies she once championed prior to 2020 and for her campaign’s association with liberal elites. On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” Hanson noted that despite giving Harris the “benefit of the doubt,” voters are increasingly fed up with her “desperate” attempts to appease various voter groups.

“Well, they’ve been giving her the benefit of the doubt for over 90 days, and I think now they’re just saying, ‘You know what? Now she’s desperate, and she’s trying to buy black votes with giveaways. She’s trying to copy Trump’s proposals. She’s flipped on every single issue, from the border to crime. She was for defund the police. She says she has a Glock gun,’” Hanson said.

“‘I remember when she was governor, she tried to outlaw models of Glocks. She won’t tell us what, where she bought it, when she bought it. Ditto [with] McDonald’s — where she worked, when she worked. I had it with her, I’m done.’ Jigs up, bam,” Hanson continued. “And I think the left is really hurting themselves because they don’t know what to do.”

Hanson continued to call out Democrats for not interacting with middle and lower classes in America, noting that their appeal through ads to voters amounts to “counterproductive caricatures.”

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“You see everybody, they hate us. They hate the middle classes, they hate the upper-middle class, middle-middle class, lower-middle class, and yet they understand that they can’t hang on to power unless they fool that class,” Hanson said.

The vice president has sought help from Hollywood elites in her campaign, attending her first fundraiser on Sept. 29 in the Los Angeles area since becoming the nominee. The event featured celebrity attendees like Stevie Wonder, Demi Lovato, Jessica Alba, and Lily Tomlin and was estimated to bring in around $55 million, alongside another fundraiser in San Francisco that weekend, according to Spectrum News 1.

“They’re never around the middle class, so then they make these commercials about what they think the middle class is like, and they end up to be counterproductive caricatures — they’re just laughable. Or when they think they have to talk to middle-class blacks [saying,] ‘You all,” Hanson added. “She literally, in a week, she faked a Jamaican accent, a Mexican accent and a black accent, and all badly … it’s all fake. It’s fake, and everybody, that’s what I think they’ve concluded.”

However, despite the fundraising efforts from elites, polls and political pundits have warned the Democratic campaign that Harris has been slipping in the polls among men, specifically black male voters.

In an attempt to appeal to these groups, the campaign released a grassroots ad on Friday featuring men boasting about being “man enough” to engage in various stereotypically male activities while also supporting women’s issues and Harris. Additionally, Harris unveiled new proposals on Monday to provide Black men “with the tools to achieve financial freedom, lower costs to better provide for themselves and their families, and protect their rights,” CNN reported.

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(DCNF)—Vice President Kamala Harris’ senior campaign advisor David Plouffe said Sunday the Democratic Party’s panic over the close race with former President Donald Trump is a result of polling that showed a false lead.

Pollsters and pundits have warned about the tightening polls as November approaches, with reports claiming people within the party are growing “nervous,” according to CNN. Co-host Dan Pfeiffer asked Plouffe on “Pod Save America” if he was concerned about the race and whether it had “changed” in recent weeks, to which Plouffe responded that Harris has consistently been tied with Trump in the polls.

“So I know for all of us that want to see Kamala Harris win, we wish there was an easy pathway — that pathway does not exist. This is basically going to come down to, you know, history would suggest it’s not going to come down to several thousand votes in seven states, but it’s going to come down to a very narrow margin,” Plouffe said.

“I think the freakout is because there were a bunch of polls, I’d say in the last month, that showed a lead for Kamala Harris that was not real. It’s not what we were seeing — we’ve seen this thing basically be tied let’s say since mid-September,” Plouffe added. “This is the race we have, it’s the race we expected. I don’t think it’s going to open up for either candidate, I think it’s going to be close all the way in. I would just remind everybody, whether it’s internal data or public data, a poll that shows Donald Trump up 48, 47 that then shows us up 48, 47 is essentially the same thing. This thing’s going to be decided on the margins in these few number of states.”

Plouffe previously stated he believes Trump and Harris will remain tied until Election Day, but warned that Trump appears strong in this race.

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“I think from the time Kamala Harris became the nominee we saw a lot of movement — five, six points depending on the state. But what we’ve seen for the last few weeks, and the data is consistent this week, is basically a tied race in seven states and I don’t think that’s going to change. So I think it’s 47, 48 for each of us. I’d still rather be Kamala Harris than Donald Trump because I think she’s got a slightly higher ceiling,” Plouffe said. “But the reality is Donald Trump barely won in [20]16, but barely lost in 20[20]. He’s a little stronger this time than he was last time, so he’s going to get 48% of the vote.”

Harris’ support among Hispanic and black voters has slipped in recent weeks compared to previous Democratic presidential candidates. A New York Times poll shows Harris trailing by six points among Hispanic voters compared to President Joe Biden’s 2020 numbers.

Trump has also gained ground with black voters, receiving 15% support, up from 9% in 2020, according to the same poll.

NBC News’ latest national poll, released Sunday, shows the two candidates deadlocked at 48% support, just three weeks from Election Day. RealClearPolling averages also show Trump with a narrow lead in swing states Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, while Harris only holds a slim lead in Wisconsin.

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Despite Harris having a full week of sit-down interviews with the media, polls have shown former President Donald Trump and Harris nearly deadlocked in key swing states. On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Urban criticized Harris’ week, noting how fellow lawmakers, like Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, received major backlash online after releasing an unusual, staged video with MSNBC columnist Liz Plank.

“She had a terrible week. It was a terrible week for the Harris campaign. You had Gretchen Whitmer having to apologize to Catholics across America for mocking them with some Dorito, bizarro Dorito thing on there. You had governor Elmer Fudd out hunting and not knowing how to load his shotgun using the wrong gun, at the same time — ” Urban said.

“At the same time, you have Barack Obama in Pennsylvania where he derided people who own guns. Remember? Claiming people in Pennsylvania were bitter and they cling to guns and religion,” Urban continued. “Remember that in 2008? So they’re trying to appeal to those folks at the same time while he alienates black male voters by chastising. So they had a really tough week.”

However, Democratic strategist Doug Thornell intervened and pushed back against Urban, criticizing Trump’s performance and noting that Harris’ positive for the week was releasing her medical records.

“So first of all, Kamala Harris released her medical records, Trump hasn’t. That was this week,” Doug Thornell said. “He goes to Detroit and insults an entire city and insults a lot of black people there. His economic plan came out and by outside economic analysis, they said it would raise costs and raise debt on the American people. So Trump didn’t really have a great week either. I think many times he goes out there — ”

“[Releasing] medical records, that’s the high point of your week? You’re really grasping at straws,” Urban interrupted.

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Thornell continued to push back against Urban, questioning whether Pennsylvania voters still remember former President Barack Obama’s 2008 comment to them, before CNN’s Scott Jennings joined the argument.

“I don’t think if I were in your party, with all due respect, I wouldn’t want to be arguing about the hiding of medical conditions and medical records, given who the current president of the United States is,” Jennings hit back.

While Thornell criticized Trump in response, Jennings asked to finish his statement and continued to call out Harris for dropping poll numbers.

“Number two, I think the polling this morning and the week, I think David’s right. It was a rough week. I mean, her faves are down. They’re struggling with — I mean, the front page of The New York Times this morning, front-page story, Democrats struggling with African American voters, particularly African American men,” Jennings said.

“This gender gap issue is real. It’s a real problem and you see the Democrats reacting to it. I think what they are now finally in October — the election — coming to realize is that a lot of men think Democrats care more about dudes who want to become women than dudes who just want to be dudes. No hunting, cosplay or cringey videos is going to change it — the bed is made,” Jennings concluded.

NBC News’ latest national poll shows Harris and Trump in a deadlock just three weeks before Election Day, with each receiving 48% support.

In recent weeks, political pundits have warned the Democratic Party about the former president’s appeal to key Democratic voting blocs. The latest New York Times poll, released Sunday, shows Harris trailing by six points among Hispanic voters compared to President Joe Biden’s 2020 election results. The former president has also gained support among black voters, with New York Times polling data showing him receiving 15% support, up from 9% in 2020.

Featured Image: Screenshot/CNN/”State of the Union”

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The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) went on strike early Tuesday, affecting 14 major ports along the East and Gulf Coasts. On “The Ingraham Angle,” Scalia praised job creation under the Trump administration in response to Vice President Harris’ criticism of Trump while addressing the strike, noting the issue could become “severe” if Biden delays action. (RELATED: Union Boss Willing To ‘Cripple’ America Made More Than $900,000 Last Year)

“Of course he cares about workers, and I think that the Trump years were extraordinarily good for workers when it came to, you know, job creation, when it came to wage growth. They were good years. What I will say is I would like to see the administration step back a little bit. Avoid appearing to take sides in this dispute. What the ILA president said in that clip at the beginning of this segment, Laura, there is a lot of truth to it. These strikes can have just extraordinary consequences on the entire economy,” Scalia said.

“Most of the time, when you’ve had a coast-wide strike like this. Up and down the East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, if they have lasted very long, presidents, Republicans and Democrats, have decided they need to go to court and get an injunction,” Scalia continued. “That’s something, as the ILA president laid it out, you are looking at after two, three weeks, the consequences to the rest of the country become very severe. I think the president will need to give very serious consideration by next week to whether he needs to go to court. So I don’t think it’s constructive to take sides, I think we want the parties to come to an agreement.”

Harris voiced her support for union workers on strike Wednesday, stating the issue was about “fairness” and claiming former President Donald Trump wants to “pull us back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize.”

“This strike is about fairness. Foreign-owned shipping companies have made record profits and executive compensation has grown. The Longshoremen, who play a vital role transporting essential goods across America, deserve a fair share of these record profits,” Harris said.

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Harris has been criticized for her word salad responses during interviews. Hanson stated on “The Victor Davis Hanson Show” that despite Harris taking a limited amount of interviews in comparison to former President Donald Trump, the exposure she is getting from them has “not been good.”

“When I watch that today, and then you compare and contrast with the Oprah interview, with the Association of Black journalists interview, with the local Philadelphia anchorman interview — now we’re up to four,” Hanson said. “And with the — I guess that was an interview — Dana Bash, with the multiple choice answers provided for Waltz and her, she’s only done five, and I think Trump’s done 74.”

“But all of them have been not good — not good. They’re cementing a picture that she doesn’t know what she’s saying, that she can’t articulate ideas, that she’s sappy, which brings her into this 43 day doom loop,” Hanson said.

The senior fellow suggested Harris’ “handlers” may be questioning her next campaign steps, linking it to her push for a second debate with Trump.

“So that’s what’s going on, and I don’t know what she’s supposed to be doing, because she doesn’t do these four answers. She does not tell us what she’s going to do. She does not explain why she doesn’t do it now as the vice president. She does not tell us why she’s flipped and rejected her whole ideological career, and she doesn’t tell us the relationship, if there is any anymore, with Joe Biden,” Hanson said.

In a recent interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, Harris failed to provide a detailed answer on her economic policy. Harris also dodged a direct answer during a Sept. 13 interview with 6ABC Philadelphia’s Action News, speaking about her middle-class upbringing and lawns when asked how she plans to make life more affordable.

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