By Shachi Kurl, President
If the story of the last three months was Charlie XCX and Brat Summer, then surely one of many important sub-narratives was watching the Democrats south of the border, rejuvenated under presidential nominee Kamala Harris, make a play for independent and disaffected Republicans.
From camo-styled Harris-Walz campaign hats, to chest-thumping chants of “U.S.A.” from the floor of the DNC convention in Chicago, to frequent references to Harris’s gun ownership, the message is one that Democrat strategists hope will be comfortable to voters who were turned off by the party’s hard pull to the progressive left over the last decades.
Appealing to the centre. Reaching beyond the traditional base. What a novel, revolutionary idea.
North of the border, don’t hold your breath for the same, even if it’s what voters in Canada say they are gasping for.