Posted on 08/10/2024 2:23:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If there were any doubt whether Vice President Kamala Harris has transformed this year’s presidential election, Saturday morning’s latest New York Times/Siena College polls put it to rest.
In the first Times/Siena College swing state polls since her entry into the race, Harris leads former President Donald Trump by 4 points each in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin among likely voters. It’s a major shift from previous Times/Siena polls, which found Trump leading Harris and President Joe Biden by an average of 1 or 2 points each across the same three states.
Sometimes, it can be hard to explain why polls shift from week to week or month to month. In today’s polarized politics, it can even be hard to explain why voters ever shift at all. In this case, it’s easy: Harris’ entry into the race has upended the fundamentals of this election.
Until now, the basic dynamic of the race was driven by Biden’s unpopularity. It prevented Democrats from running their usual strategy against Trump and his MAGA allies: Make an election a referendum on Trump by running a broadly acceptable candidate. Millions of voters were left with an agonizing choice between two candidates they disliked.
With Harris riding an extraordinary wave of momentum at the top of the ticket, at least for now, the usual political dynamic of the Trump era has been restored. In the poll, at least 49% of likely voters in each of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin say they have a favorable view of her, a level neither Harris nor Biden obtained in any previous Times/Siena poll this cycle.
Whether this will last is an entirely different question.
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Go away. Trump isn’t ceding anything. I forget, were you a Desanctus fool or a Haley kiss a$$?
“...the people deciding the election are not those going to the rallies but those sitting at home watching their favorite TV shows. And on many media outlets, they are hearing from Harris - and only Harris.”
^^^This. The rallies are great, but the number of eyeballs there vs. media outlets ~30,000,000:1.
AND all rally attendees are already Trump voters; the media audience contains potential converts. Much better ROI, IMO.
The voting officially begins in September in many states. Mail in ballots go out and will be in mail box’s no later than September 20th.
This is Obama all over again
While republicans go after her DEI and race she will squeeze into the White House
STOP!!!
Go after her time as senator in California
Prosecutor in California
The war in Ukraine gaza
The economy
The border
The immigration
Or we will lose
I have a source and he tells me that they putting lots of money on Kamala
They just don’t like trump
He needs to stay on the issues. Not on dei
Of course
That would be with any republican candidate
Only way to get the White House back in the future is to subdue cnn and New York Times
I don’t know how to do that without a civil war
This afternoon I was out walking behind two women who appeared to be in their 70s (this is in deep blue east SF Bay Area), and they were obsessing over Trump's tale of taking a helicopter ride with Willie Brown. No talk of Harris at all.
"Harris Has Fundamentally Changed the Race"
Harris Has Fundamentally Changed HER Race.
Knee Pad’s didn’t change anything. She’s still as unlikable as ever.
What changed is the fake news media’s (enemedia) constant fawning and propping her up to be something she never was and will never be. Weird huh.
Ignore this at your peril. If you think reg voters are smart and intuitive, then nuts.
You are 100 percent correct. The numbers are real.
If voters are this stupid to vote for her then America deserves to die
I wonder if God truly has lifted His Hand that has protected us and has abandoned us to our fate for renouncing Him.
We have become Sodom and Gomorrah 0.2!
Look this election is simply pro or anti Trump..
If you think that Harris moved 6 points by doing nothing then you are naive
Base more motivated sure, but this race has not swung 6 points in the swing states
Keep in mind that for several weeks we kept being told of the high percentage of voters that were not happy with either Trump or Biden. They wanted different choices.
Doesn’t it make sense that whichever party swapped out their candidate for someone else, that that party would see a surge?
Just wait until she debates Trump, or otherwise starts talking unscripted.
Poll numbers will crater.
Her brain is addled by all that dope she’s been smoking..
Wipe the drool off your chin, New York Slimes.
And “fundamentally change” *this.*
Harris didnt do anything, but the media did.
Trum and Vance are for chemical abortion. Chemical abortion is the money maker for planned parenthood. Trump is clearly pro homosexual, which in the case of men requires child rape.
He has Caitlyn Jenner on his side as trannies invade elementary schools.
He banned bumpstocks, so his presidential record on 2A is carrying water for the left.
His foreign policy is great, but should I vote for someone who supports mass abortion for that reason. Should any practicing Christian.
The uniparty has used trumps leftist bent to normalize all of these things.
He locked us down for a droplet spread virus, unless you were burning cities.
Choir not okay, burning cities okay.
Then he grifted big pharma and bill gates with mRNA vaccine cash.
Voting for abortion, child rape and erasing the inherent differences between men and women is now the Grand Ole Plannec Parenthood.
For power, who do you think he will sacrifice next.
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