The honeymoon period for Kamala Harris’ White House campaign appears to be over following a week that saw the vice president have polling go against her alongside more serious attacks.
Harris and her 2024 running mate Tim Walz had enjoyed a wave of support that had been missing from President Joe Biden’s reelection bid, which ended on July 21.
But in the past seven days, Harris has been met with multiple issues that threaten to harm her 2024 campaign.
These include criticisms against her and the Biden administration after six Israeli hostages were found dead in a tunnel in the southern Gazan city of Rafah. Harris had previously warned Israel it would be a “mistake” to launch a military offensive in Rafah amid its war with Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The past week has seen families of the U.S. troops who died during the August 2021 bombing attack at Kabul airport during the withdrawal from Afghanistan unite to condemn Harris in response to her criticism of Donald Trump’s recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery.
Harris is also seeing some warning signs in the polls, including Trump cutting into leads the vice president previously enjoyed over the former president, as well as bookmakers and forecasters suggesting the Republican is now the favorite in the close race.
On September 2, an ActiVote poll of 1,000 likely voters showed that Harris’ previous 5-point lead over Trump from late August had been “steadily cut” to just under 2 percentage points.
Elsewhere, the 2024 election prediction model created by forecaster and statistician Nate Silver shows that Trump’s chances of winning November’s race has improved over the past seven days
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