A volatile economy could prove to be the decisive factor in the November presidential election, Sarah Bedford argued.

In an appearance on Fox News’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, Bedford agreed with Cavuto’s assessment that current market volatility could see a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. Such a situation could prove exceedingly difficult for Vice President Kamala Harris.

“I think the past couple of months, we’ve seen a lot of uncertainty in the race from things that have nothing to do with the economy, Joe Biden’s age, the fact that Donald Trump has a brand new opponent, but the fundamentals of the race are still centered around the economy, around voters’ concerns about inflation and the affordability of their lives,” she said. “That’s difficult for Kamala Harris, right?”

Bedford said the Harris honeymoon period is unlikely to last and the race will soon revert to one based on policy issues.

“Because once the excitement of her new candidacy starts to die down, this is still a race where voters are largely dissatisfied with the incumbent administration,” she said. “It’s a change election because she’s the vice president; she doesn’t represent change any way on the number one issue for voters, which is still the economy.”

Harris’s strategy since launching her campaign last week has largely been to focus on hot-button Democratic issues, such as abortion, LGBT rights, Project 2025, and former President Donald Trump’s alleged threats to democracy. Bedford argued that this could backfire if voters’ concerns about the economy don’t start to take center focus.

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“And you know, we don’t hear Kamala Harris speaking directly to voters fears about inflation,” she said. “She wants to make this race a referendum on Donald Trump. And the problem with that, for her, is that voters largely have positive memories of the economy under Donald Trump, again, their No. 1 issue that they’re voting on. Things were overall just better — quality of life, better, under the Trump administration. So if the focus is on Trump’s fitness for office, that’s not necessarily a good thing for Democrats.”

Harris has led a Democratic recovery in the polls, suffered after concerns over President Joe Biden’s decline. After the president dropped out and Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, polls have the two almost evenly split.