On September 11, 2024, McGuireWoods Consulting senior vice president Ryan Bernstein was cited by Politico in its story titled “Trump’s Muddled Energy Message” discussing presidential campaign messaging over national energy policy.
Bernstein noted that Donald Trump’s debate performance led to his missing an opportunity to better define his energy policy and point out the inconsistency of Harris’s past energy policy, whom many voters still don’t have clear views on.
“Trump hasn’t been able to clearly articulate his position or her positions and, really, she’s been able to kind of define herself. She probably covered what she needed to cover in Pennsylvania. He kind of glossed over her inconsistencies and cobbled together all these other issues in one package, which didn’t really hit home,” Bernstein said.
