All Hands Scramble, Last Call

The Harris Campaign is laying off staff and refocusing resources. Iowa is now where her last stand will be to get momentum to be the Democrat nominee for president. From Baltimore to New Hampshire and California, campaign offices are seeing layoffs and re-assignments. Even her campaign manager is taking a pay cut from his reported 10 thousand dollar monthly salary. Poor guy. Millions of dollars behind the top seeds in the game of moans that has become this election, she is going all-out for media buys in the Iowa primaries.

In what has become a “cash is king” political norm, she finds herself hemmoraging money and paying for previous inefficiencies. At this point it will be difficult. In the latest RealClearPolitics poll, she’s in a 3-way tie for fifth place in Iowa at 2.7%. It improves nationally to 4.9%.

Her latest attempt to stir attention and a viral moment was in Columbia, South Carolina. President Trump was receiving a criminal justice award from an all black college (Benedict), and she showed up to the later criminal justice forum after threatening to boycott it over Trump’s appearance and award. Other candidates attended, likely saner heads prevailed to prevent her from making an even worse for PR move.

This is an on-going article and will be updated as this story develops.