Progressive outlet fed up with Harris’ ‘safe’ campaign: ‘Looks like she doesn’t stand for anything’

A new piece from far-left outlet the New Republic ripped Vice President Harris’ campaign for playing it too "safe" by not talking about her policies this close to the November election.

The outlet’s senior editor, Alex Shephard, wrote that the approach to lying low and let the media propel her campaign on good "vibes" is not working anymore. He declared that the "honeymoon is over" and argued that Harris’ strategy resulted in making her look like an empty suit.

"But having too few policies is also risky, not least because it makes Harris look like she doesn’t stand for anything," Shephard declared in his Tuesday piece titled "Kamala Harris Can’t Keep Running Like This."

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The author began the article with his observation that the good vibes that accompanied Harris’ replacement of Biden at the top of the Democrat presidential ticket have gone.

"After seven weeks of euphoria over Kamala Harris’s ascension to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket, panic finally returned to the party on Sunday," Shephard wrote.

He cited a New York Times poll showing Trump’s "slim lead over Harris nationally" and their "dead heat" in the swing states, and he offered it as evidence that "momentum that had sustained Harris since President Biden withdrew from the race has clearly dissipated."

Multiple outlets have reported on just how close the race is between Harris and former President Trump. CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten stated last week that it’s the closest election in a "generation" and noted that if Trump were to outperform polling by only a single point, he’d win.

Shephard went on to rebuke Harris’ strategy, saying that the