No polls by anyone are valid yet. There has not been time for her to become known as the opponent.
And no, forget about her likability or problems with staff blah blah. That is not going to move the needle.
The election will be about Trump, but the prosecutions are largely hated and that approach has that problem.
The items of voter concern are inflation, the border, populism/elitism. Republicans are not decisive in this, nor are Democrats. Both are 26% fringe parties.
It is Independents that are all important and they care about those three items. Abortion will decide nothing. All minds are already made up. Taxes and Spending will decide nothing because Republicans voted for those debt ceiling increases and have never proposed anything other than tiny cuts. The Independents know this and so that is off the table of concerns.
It’s all about inflation, the Border and elitism (the Swamp).
One very important thing to note — which is more believable, an attempt on Trump’s life or a complete reversal of border policy by closing the border and starting mass deportations (as in NOW, by Biden and Harris, pre election) to remove the issue? Answer: WHATEVER IT TAKES says either can be done because he cannot be allowed to win.
“No polls by anyone are valid yet. There has not been time for her to become known as the opponent.”
Bingo. Up to now she was included in some polls of course, but only since 2 days ago have we been inundated — and will continue to be inundated — by stories telling us how wonderful she is. Ignorant, gullible voters who weren’t overly familiar with Harris before will be told that she’s Cleopatra, Indira Gandhi, Evita Peron and Golda Meir all rolled into one (not that any of those are good things, but we’re talking about gullible voters here).
When her approval begins to skyrocket, however artificial that movement is, Trump isn’t going to be “crushing” her in any polls and he already isn’t — not in legit polls taken beginning on Sunday. An just wait a few weeks, or days, or hours, before Biden croaks or resigns and suddenly she is “President Harris”.
If you think the hysterical media adulation for Bonzo’bama back in 2008 was ridiculous, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Take Bonzo, make him a female (instead of just a closet homo), then run him against the most media-hated presidential candidate in U.S. history. Wait a little while, and THEN take a gander at those supposedly crushing polls. They may be crushing in a way we do not want to see.