MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart warned Democrats late this week that the hundreds of millions of dollars in positive earned media that Vice PresidentKamala Harrishas gotten in recent weeks may be coming to an end soon as the “sugar high” wears off.
Capehart, who is a columnist at The Washington Post, made the remarks during a PBS interview where he was asked how much longer Democrats can sustain this momentum.
“It’s been a great week for the Democrats after the last three months that they put themselves through with all the yelling and screaming at each other and pushing the president off the ticket,” Capehart said. “But enthusiasm’s up. The fundraising is up. The spirit among Democrats is up. And yet all things that are up must come down. And the thing that the rank-and-file Democrats have to prepare themselves for the bad press that’s about to come, the attack that might land, the punch that might land.”
“The thing that Democrats also have to keep in mind is that Vice President Harris is fully aware of that, that she’s been saying to her team, right now, this might be a sugar high,” he continued. “We have to keep our eye, our focus on November. And so knowing that the vice president is thinking in that way gives me confidence that, when the momentum starts to slag or when they get punched really hard with an effective attack, that they will be ready to parry it.”
