David Pakman legitimately worried about Trump's PA crowd size

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60. The Trump frenzy is real.

The Harris-Walz campaign does not have this in the bag, and it would be foolish to pretend that we can relax and start planning victory parties now.

Obviously, Trump and the Republicans lie about everything. The video footage Pakman uses is from Newsmax and Fox, so we’d be smart to question its validity.

But, still, there are a lot of suckers out there who think Trump is the Second Coming. And a whole lot of them live in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

It’s time for every Harris supporter to keep (or start) volunteering with your local Dem party, knocking on doors, making phone calls, sending postcards and letters, and encouraging family and friends to vote straight Dem — and don’t let up until the clock has run out.

When I read that we’re expanding the map to include Texas and Florida, it frankly gives me a queasy feeling. I remember when the Clinton campaign made (or pretended to make) a play for Utah(!), Arizona, and Georgia in 2016. (See https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-stumbles-clinton-weighs-a-striking-choice-expand-the-map-or-stick-to-the-plan/2016/10/16/f0f77470-93a7-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html)

I’ve read since that this, especially in Utah, was probably a head-fake designed to get the Trump campaign to waste resources in solidly Red states. And, of course, Biden did win Arizona and Georgia in 2020, so maybe it wasn’t so crazy after all. But still…

Ultimately, I have to trust the Harris campaign team to know what they’re doing. They have experts like David Plouffe on board, so I presume they’re not ignoring swing states to chase after elusive votes in Texas and Florida.

But I have no control over any of that, and armchair quarterbacking and clicktivism aren’t going to win this thing for us.