ElectionWatch 2024 – Harris’ presidential campaign leans on British political socialists for advice as Attorney General Garland slams Russia, Iran for election interference – WHOA! – CDM

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US Attorney General Merrick Garland, joined by FBI Director Christopher Wray and other officials, spoke on Wednesday about alleged Russian and Iranian interference in the 2024 US presidential election, completely ignoring the British involvement that was openly welcomed by the Harris-Walz campaign.

Not since the era of President William J. Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who led the Labour Party, have we seen such a large involvement of British politicians in a Democratic presidential campaign in the US.

Not only have the British turned out in droves for the Harris-Walz campaign, they have also been welcomed with open arms.

Back in the day, Sidney Blumenthal introduced Blair to Clinton. After their political careers, they continue to work together, pushing their third-wave progressive policies on the world stage.

Now it’s Kamala Harris’ turn and the Brits are galloping merrily to American shores, flocking to Harris’ campaign as fast as they can, with just days to go before the first Trump-Harris presidential debate on September 10 and less than 70 days until Election Day. They’re all being led by advisers to newly elected British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Vice President Kamala Harris is tapping Deborah Mattinson, a top adviser to Britain’s Labor Party, for advice on her campaign.

Mattinson, a key adviser to newly elected British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, will travel to Washington DC next week to meet Harris-Walz’s campaign strategists.

Mattinson is expected to give a briefing on how Starmer and the Labour Party, a left-wing party allied to the Party of European Socialists, elected Starmer president on July 4.

Britain’s Labour Party and the US Democratic Party are essentially sister parties. From immigration to housing to confronting the left, Harris Walz’s strategists are open to the British socialists’ political playbook.

A few weeks ago, some of Starmer’s closest and most trusted aides from Downing Street attended the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and spoke to a number of members of the Vice President’s campaign team.

Morgan McSweeney, the mastermind behind the 2024 Labour election, and Downing Street communications director Matthew Doyle were in attendance in Chicago.

Jonathan Ashworth, director of the think tank Labour Together, was one of Labour’s senior figures in Chicago. The former MP was also a key strategist in Labour’s victory in July.

Democrats were “interested in how we framed the arguments (about border security) because they plan to use the same arguments,” Ashworth said. “We kept reminding people that he was a tough guy who put people behind bars and thwarted terrorist plots.”

New Labour Dover and Deal MP Mike Tapp were also part of the delegation in Chicago, which was organised by the Progressive Policy Institute to “pass on some of the knowledge we have gained from winning elections.”

“The Progressive Policy Institute is a catalyst for policy innovation and political reform with offices in Washington DC, Brussels, and the United Kingdom. Its mission is to create radically pragmatic ideas to move America beyond ideological and partisan gridlock,” according to the PPI website.

PPI was founded in 1989 and is affiliated with the Third Way and the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). Will Marshall is the founder and chairman. The DLC was a cornerstone of Bill Clinton’s rise within the Democratic Party.

The institute covers a wide range of policies. Their policies can be found here.

Marshall posted his own op-ed about the two US political conventions on the PPI website and republished it in The Hill.

This British-American collaboration is part of the center-left think tanks and political operatives that shape policy and messaging in Washington and London.

The topics under discussion included policies that pose challenges to both parties on both sides of the Atlantic, such as immigration, housing and the challenges facing the left within their parties on issues such as the Gaza crisis.

It is not the first time that Labor Party operatives have teamed up with Democrats to oust a Republican candidate.

Matthew McGregor, Labour’s former digital director, also worked as a campaign strategist for former US President Barack Obama,

“When I joined Obama’s digital team in October 2011, I was the 60th member. We ended up with 300 people,” he said. “On Election Day 2008, the Obama campaign tweeted once to its 1 million followers. But on Election Day 2012, we must have tweeted 300 times to our 27 million followers,” he said in a 2013 interview with The Guardian.

One of McGregor’s methods during the 2012 campaign was to feed the liberal press in the UK and then feed it back into the US media and all over social media.

Not only will Harris receive advice from British political staff, but the boundary between politics and British media may even result in only admirable pieces appearing, such as this article in The Guardian from July 2024, rather than her being challenged on her policies.

Topics on the agenda next week are expected to include messaging to undecided voters and addressing issues important to voters that Harris doesn’t have a good track record on.

Immigration, border security, housing, Gaza.

Border security has always been one of Donald Trump’s key priorities.

One of Harris’ weaknesses vis-à-vis Trump is the issue of migration across America’s southern border. President Biden tasked Harris with tackling illegal migration.

No matter how you discount her leadership, her efforts at the southern border have failed miserably, and Americans know it. Whether it’s 9 million or 14 million at the southern border, the latest report reminds Americans that nearly 300,000 unaccompanied minors have disappeared into the system under the Biden Harris administration. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the Biden Harris administration released its findings on August 24, 2024. It can be read in full here .

Border security has been one of Trump’s top issues, consistently worrying Americans and ranking as one of the most pressing concerns in US polls. The issue also emerged as a major concern for British voters after a surge in small-boat arrivals from France under the UK’s Conservative government in the first half of 2024.

During the election campaign, then Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did his best to portray Labour as soft on the border. That argument fell flat with Starmer’s victory in July.

Harris, like Starmer, has pledged to manage the southern border by tackling transnational smuggling operations run by organised crime gangs.

In her TV ad, she now claims that Harris “as a prosecutor in a border state, busted drug cartels and locked up gang members for smuggling guns and drugs across the border.”

In both countries, protests took place in major cities and at universities.

Another area where Democratic and Labour political operatives can discuss how to meet the challenges posed by the Gaza protests that have hit major cities in the US and UK, on ​​their university campuses and at the Democratic Party convention in Chicago.

Harris announced last week that the centerpiece of her new economic platform is a plan to cut red tape for first-time homebuyers, a spinoff of what both Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said during the campaign.

This policy shift was already visible in the British polls earlier this year and was announced by Starmer in October 2023. This change has now been incorporated into his government’s economic strategy.

Harris is ‘woke’. She embraced the defund the police movement of 2020 in the US. Starmer was also ridiculed for taking a knee with Black Lives Matters in the UK.

Mattinson specifically advises putting the “hope and change” issue aside and having Harris continue to focus on undecided voters in swing states.

The vice president has put forward a policy platform advocating “no tip tax,” but it’s a message Trump first put forward in 2024 political language.

The vice president previously supported a ban on fracking, backed mandatory federal gun buybacks and the end of private health insurance during her 2019 presidential campaign. Since entering the 2024 presidential campaign, Harris has now stated that she does not want to ban fracking and does not want a single-tier health care system.

During her recent CNN interview with Dana Bash, Harris claimed that she hasn’t changed her mind on certain issues because she holds the same values.

“Generally speaking, how should voters view some of the changes that you’ve made, some of which you’ve outlined here in your policies? Is it because you’ve had more experience and learned more about the information? Is it because you ran in the Democratic primary, and should they feel comfortable that what you’re saying now is going to be your policies going forward?” asked CNN’s Dana Bash. “I think the most important and significant aspect of my policy perspective and my decisions is that my values ​​have not changed,” Harris began.

Perhaps Americans should look to London, rather than Russia and Iran, to see who is really interfering in the 2024 US presidential campaign. And they should keep in mind that it might well be the Labour Party and the EU socialists.