Har­ris-Walz taps into wide range of Demo­c­ra­t­ic coali­tion with camo hat

New mer­chan­dise indi­cates the Har­ris cam­paign is con­tin­u­ing its attempt to reboot Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Harris’s 2020 online cam­paign — an approach that pre­vi­ous­ly failed her but may work bet­ter this time around.

Har­ris waged a large­ly online cam­paign in 2020, earn­ing sig­nif­i­cant ini­tial fan­fare that quick­ly fiz­zled out. She dropped out before the Iowa pri­ma­ry with dis­mal poll num­bers. Now, the cam­paign is seem­ing­ly retry­ing this approach, sig­ni­fied by its reliance on memes and online-ori­ent­ed mer­chan­dise and ref­er­ences.

The recent­ly debuted Har­ris-Walz camo hat taps into young and online sup­port­ers but also tar­gets the oppo­site end of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic coali­tion — mid­dle aged men who hunt. The hat fea­tures orange text on a cam …