A growing sense of unease has set in among Democrats, who fear a presidential election they thought they had won by switching the top of the ticket might be slipping away.
Vice President Kamala Harris has abandoned her cautious media strategy, deigning to appear even on Fox News, a cable network both she and President Joe Biden were at pains to avoid earlier. So far, the results have been mixed at best.
Liberal opinion leaders are urging their readers to ignore the polls, following a previous pattern of polling denial (or at least skepticism) that ended in acceptance that Biden was losing and citing the same polls to chase him out of the presidential race. Less than a month before his exit, Biden doubters were dismissed as the “bedwetting brigade.”
Harris is still leading in the national RealClearPolitics polling average by 1.4 points. But Biden led by 9.4 points and Hillary Clinton by 6.7 at the exact same point in 2020 and 2016, respectively. Former President Donald Trump is for the third straight election cycle running stronger in the battleground states that will decide the Electoral College majority, and thus the presidency, than he is nationally. Harris’s current national lead is also smaller than Clinton’s final popular vote margin when she lost to Trump.
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