John Heilemann: Voters Have To Understand that a New Trump Presidency Would Be a Disaster

SCARBOROUGH: “Again, if you’re Biden, you — you, as Cohn said you like the fact that the hard part’s done. Now you need to bring your voters home.”
Heilemann: “Right. And — and again, I hate to give Sam credit for anything, although I don’t know if you caught him this morning on ‘Way too Early’ Joe, his — his questioning related to the problems with the price of orange juice. He was here on the business section on ‘Way too Early’ this morning. Sam was talking about man that that discussion of the alternatives to oranges, other citrus fruits that —“
STEIN: “I thought that was great —“ [crosstalk]
Heilemann: “— we could use because there’s a spike in orange juice prices. It was compelling. No, really compelling but even more compelling, even more compelling Sam’s — Sam’s analysis just now, which is something that the Biden campaign knows well. It is not the concern about African American voters, young voters and — and Hispanic voters like these core elements of the Democratic coalition, the concern is not that anybody really thinks they’re going to go flock off to Donald Trump. The concern is that they stay home, that they that — that in a very, very close election in all of those battleground states, you know, if a large chunk of any of those parts of the coalition decide to just say, ‘Screw it, I’m not going to vote,’ that’s a problem for the Biden campaign. The upside there to your point, Joe, is again, you’re not trying to persuade them in a lot of cases to come back to Joe Biden. You’re just trying to persuade them to do what they did in 2020 and to — and to realize the stakes. And what a devastating outcome it would be for their — for their interests, for the interests of young voters, the pocketbook interests, they are focused more on the economy than they are on Gaza. We see that in the polling for African American and Latino voters, that that that Trump presidency — Trump reelection would be terrible for them. So just please do what you did back — from the Biden campaign’s point of view — just do what you did back in 2020. You’re right. That is the easier sell than trying to get older white voters who have drifted away from the Democratic coalition over the last 20 years to come back home. Those guys are sticking with Biden. That’s a big part of why they can be optimistic in those three Midwestern states.”