When Kamala Harris took the stage at a rally in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, she shared the stage with a bevy of quisling Republicans. The turncoats included former Representatives Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Barbara Comstock and Denver Riggleman of Virginia, Chris Shays of Connecticut, Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania, and Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma. Also featured were former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, and "more than 100 Republicans."

According to Pennsylvania Democrats, instead of taking a victory lap and trying to round up Republican votes using people who are irrelevant to the Republican party as filler, Kamala should first focus on winning the state.

Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are worried Vice President Kamala Harris’ operation is being poorly run in the nation’s biggest battleground state.

They say some Harris aides lack relationships with key party figures, particularly in Philadelphia and its suburbs. They complain they have been left out of events and surrogates haven’t been deployed effectively. And they’ve urged Harris staff in private meetings to do more to turn out voters of color.

Some are even pointing fingers at Harris’ Pennsylvania campaign manager, Nikki Lu, who they say lacks deep knowledge of Philadelphia, where the vice president must drive up voter turnout in order to win.

“I have concerns about Nikki Lu,” said Ryan Boyer, who, as the first Black head of the city’s influential building trades council, is one of the most powerful labor leaders in the state. “I don’t think she understands Philadelphia.”

There are a lot of red flags in this article. The Philadelphia mayor, Cherelle Parker, is not being effectively used as a surrogate. There is an admission that Harris is losing Black men. Local Democrat officials complain they are shut out of campaign events on their own turf. State Democrats claim that not only are vote-rich minority communities being ignored and marginalized, but the Trump campaign is doing a much better job of articulating why they should win.

The fact that Harris's Pennsylvania campaign manager, Nikki Lu, is being fingered as the reason for the problems provides the strongest evidence of the level of trouble Democrats see in Pennsylvania; see 'Running Out of Time': Shades of 2019 at Kamala Harris' Pennsylvania HQ As Panic Sets in.

Democratic lawmakers, stakeholders and operatives in Pennsylvania are sounding the alarm about the Harris-Walz campaign operation in the commonwealth — as polls show a significant slump in enthusiasm for the party’s ticket compared to four years ago.

With fewer than three weeks remaining before election day, sources tell The Post and other outlets that the Democratic campaign is being “out-messaged” by Republicans as the two parties battle for the Keystone State’s 19 vital electoral votes.

One operative said Wednesday that the vice president and her allies are falling down on the job of reaching out to non-white voters, who in 2020 helped push President Biden over the top in his birth state.

If, as I suspect, Trump wins Arizona, North Carolina, and Georgia, winning Pennsylvania puts him in the White House. In that scenario, Harris has to run the table on the remaining states to win. Current polling has Harris up by 0.5 percentage points. On October 17, 2020, Biden led Trump by 6.8 points; he went on to win by 1.2 points, with the final polls showing him up by 5 points. At the same point in the 2016 campaign, polls showed Hillary! up by 6.5 points, and she went on to lose by 0.5 points. The final Pennsylvania polls showed her beating Trump by 2.8 points. This indicates that Trump is under-polling somewhere between 5 and 7 points, and how the Democrats act hints that they know it.

The last two rallies by Kamala in Pennsylvania—Erie and Washington Crossing—only make sense if the state is locked down via Philly votes, the mystery vote drops at 2 a.m., and you're trying to run up the popular vote. Given the facts as perceived by Pennsylvania Democrats, those rallies can only be explained in the context of a candidate served by a staff terrified to give her bad news.