Kim Darroch believes that the Democratic nominee should concentrate on swing states in the United States and avoid making the same mistakes that Hillary Clinton did.
Unless Kamala Harris, the Democratic contender for president of the United States, solves fundamental weaknesses in her campaign, Donald Trump will continue to be the “likelier winner” of the presidential election that will take place on November 5th, according to a former British ambassador to Washington who stated this on Sunday.
In spite of the fact that Harris clearly prevailed over Trump in the head-to-head debate that was broadcast on television the previous week, Kim Darroch asserts that Harris runs the risk of making two significant errors in the last weeks of campaigning, which would result in the former Republican president becoming the favourite.
Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, met with Vice President Joe Biden and other prominent Democrats in Washington on Thursday. Lord Darroch believes that it is essential for Keir Starmer to now seek a meeting with Trump and his team before the day of the election. This would allow him to establish connections with both sides of the political spectrum.
Darroch made the statement in an article that appeared in the Observer. “It is important that if Starmer meets one, he meets both.” Should he fail to do so, the Trump team will take notice of it and feel resentment towards him.
While serving as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the United States from 2016 until 2019, Darroch resigned in a dispute over the disclosure of classified emails in which he attacked the administration of President Trump as being “clumsy and inept.” It became impossible for Darragh to maintain his job after Boris Johnson, who was competing for the leadership of the Conservative Party to succeed Theresa May at the time, refused to provide the ambassador with his unwavering support.
According to Darroch, who continues to be a respected figure in diplomatic circles on both sides of the Atlantic, Trump is now “a less formidable campaigner” than he was in 2016. He is “down on energy, more liable to become confused, with a mind cluttered with grievances.” Moreover, he continues to be a policy-free zone.
“However,” he continues, “he is still capable of connecting with the ‘left behind’ to a level that few others can match. This is a talent that ensures a devoted and long-lasting support base in a country where one in three workers say they live pay cheque to pay cheque.”
It is Darroch’s contention that the Democratic campaign is in danger of committing two errors that are of the utmost significance. Darroch warns that voters in the crucial swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which Biden won in 2020, may drift back to Trump unless Harris is able to offer “some crisply worded, specific, targeted policies to bring jobs and hope back to these blighted neighbourhoods.” Darroch urges Harris to be “laser focused” on voters in these states.
The second fault is that Harris seems to be hiding from the media, which is a mistake that Hillary Clinton made in the past. “During the year 2016, Trump was constantly present. Regardless of the invitation, he would gladly accept it. He would even call the morning news shows without being asked to do so in order to share his thoughts on the events of the day. In contrast, Hillary Clinton prevented the media from working, and she ended up losing.
Specifically, he asserts that Harris “seems to have adopted the Clinton playbook.”
The embassy of the United Kingdom in Washington will most likely advise Starmer to make an effort to meet with President Trump, and it’s possible that they’ll skip this week’s General Assembly session to do so.
To begin, there is a great deal to talk about with him, beginning with his perspective on Ukraine. And regardless of how poorly Trump performed in the debate, regardless of how obvious his personal deterioration is, many of us continue to believe that he is the most likely candidate to win. Deborah Mattinson, who had previously worked as a pollster for Starmer, met with Harris’s campaign team in Washington last week. The purpose of their meeting was to discuss the specifics of how Labour was able to pull off its astonishing election victory by focussing on key groups of “squeezed working-class voters who wanted change.” This was done in order to further develop relations with the Democratic side.