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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Edward Helmore in New York

From Fox News to Call Her Daddy: how Kamala Harris turned up election heat in pivot to media blitz

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally in Riverside Park on Friday in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Democratic presidential nominee vice president Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally in Riverside Park on Friday in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP

First came “joy”, with some cosy but unmemorable TV sit-downs with sympathetic hosts, a Vogue cover, and a billion dollars to spend on TV ads. Then reality hit: Kamala Harris’ strategy to win over a mysterious sliver of undecided US voters was not working and she was slipping back in the polls.

So the vice president went on Fox News, part of a pitch to white working-class women, who voted for Trump more strongly in 2020 than 2016. It was a win for Fox’s news division – 7.8m viewers, or four times host Bret Baier’s nightly average – but was it a win for the Harris campaign?

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