Chris Matthews: It’s a Big Mistake for Harris To Say Her Policies Are Gonna Be Like Biden’s

SHARPTON: “Isn’t part of what has to happen in the next three weeks with the Harris campaign is that she and her surrogates have to energize natural supporters of theirs and committed supporters and surrogates without alienating to the degree the rural parts of Pennsylvania that will vote for Trump, but not do things that will make that turnout become higher? Because she can say things or surrogates can say things that will excite the base, but they’ve got to do it in a way that they do not excite a turnout or backlash against the base. Isn’t that the needle she’s — the thread that she’s got to get through the needle.”
MATTHEWS: “Yeah, Al, it seems to me that when we look at the election results the day after, the Wednesday after the election, if there’s any clarity by then, it’s going to be if Trump wins, the lead will be immigration, asylum-seeking here in this country, illegal immigrants, however you want to phrase it, and he will benefit by every one of those votes. She has to fix that. I think when she says her policies are going to be the same as Biden’s, that’s a big mistake. I don’t understand why she doesn’t point out the fact that she said that she’ll bring it to a vote the bipartisan bill that Trump destroyed and put an axe through basically. She said I’m going to vote that. I’m going to take that to a vote in the U.S. Senate. We’re going to get that through. I’m not like sitting around like Biden waiting for the other side to agree with us. I don’t care what Trump runs. We’re going to bring it to a vote. It’s a fair bill and we’re going to try to get it through. I think she should say that’s how I’m going to be different. I’m going to be tougher on immigration in terms of just getting things done. I also think she can talk about that whole thing about the poor people and the working class people that she’s going to tax the rich for. That’s called reconciliation. Put the bill on the floor. The bill says the rich people are going to pay for this and this is what we’re going to do with it. Say you’re going to do it. Say you’re going to do things. She has to work the immigration number down. She can’t just let it sit there where everybody who doesn’t like illegal immigration, the votes against her, she’s got problems. On abortion rights, she has got to stick it to Trump on the fact that he said he wants women to suffer. And the fact is he did. He wanted them to suffer. And then he picked three conservatives to put on the court and get rid of Roe v. Wade. She’s got to get tougher on both fronts. If she wins, it’s going to be abortion rights. That’ll be in the lead. If she loses, it’ll be immigration. That’ll be in the lead. We know the facts. She has to address them. I think her pitch so far has been too soft. I think she’s got to get out there and say, ‘I’m going to do something for you on the economy and I’m going to do something about abortion rights. And this is going to be a tough fight and we’re going to win it on the issues.’ And she has to do that. I think so far it’s a little too vanilla. It doesn’t quite have an excitement to it or a pitch, I think.”