The presidential race is likely to be decided in a handful of swing states, and Saturday began with a Kamala Harris aide expressing confidence her campaign can make the case in those electoral battlegrounds over Donald Trump.
With the former president and his running mate Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance headed Saturday to Atlanta, Harris for President Battleground States Director Dan Kanninen noted in a memo to âinterested partiesâ the presumptive Democratic nominee had already been there and done that â and signed up people willing to work for Harrisâ election in the process.
âLast weekend, we mobilized the campaignâs biggest organizing push yet across the battleground states to talk directly to the voters who will decide this election. And, we didnât stop there. The momentum continued this week. We saw over 1,000 Georgia volunteers sign up to get involved with the campaign at the Vice Presidentâs rally in Atlanta,â Kanninen contends.
This is, he adds, part of a larger effort beyond the Peach State, in which âvolunteers have placed 2.3 million phone calls, knocked 172,000 doors, and sent nearly 2.9 million text messages to voters in battleground states.â
The ultimate meaning of those engagement metrics remains to be seen with more than 90 days before votes are counted, but Kanninen is confident nonetheless that âHarris is strong in both the Sunbelt and the Blue Wall â with multiple pathways to 270â due to âgrassroots engagementâ and âstrong enthusiasmâ borne out by the data, which include 62,000 volunteer shift signups, with more than half from first-time volunteers.
Kanninen asserts Harrisâ campaign is putting in resources the other side isnât matching.
âTrump is running a flailing campaign with no vision for the future, his brand new running mate is depressing Republican enthusiasm, and with only three months until Election Day, his campaign still lags far behind in the infrastructure needed to win in key battleground states. For example, in Nevada, Team Harris has 13 offices, while Trump has just one. In Pennsylvania, we have 36 coordinated offices while Trump has just 3. In Georgia, we have 24 offices while the Trump team didnât open their first until June.â
Georgia, of course, could be the ultimate battleground, as evidenced by Trump and Vance heading to Georgia State University Saturday afternoon and Harrisâ own visit to Savannah slated for Friday.
The GOP nominee is projecting confidence ahead of that event.
â24 HOURS UNTIL WE UNLEASH HELL,â asserted Trump in an email sent to supporters Friday, The Hill reported. âAt this time tomorrow, Crooked Kamalaâs worst nightmares come true.â
A PollingPlus (InsiderAdvantage and Trafalgar Group) Georgia survey released Friday reveals Trump up 49% to 47% in a margin-of-error race in what the pollsters say is âlikely the bellwether stateâ in the election, with analysis seemingly corroborating Kanninenâs points.
âThe emergence of Kamala Harris flipped prior demographic trends in the state. Senior voters moved more to the Trump column, while independent voters drifted more towards Harris. African American voters appeared to consolidate behind Harris, while Trump enjoyed a large lead among white voters,â the pollsters assert.
Other recent surveys show even a closer race.
Polling released a couple days ago from Bloomberg-Morning Consult shows a 47% to 47% tie in Georgia. The survey, which took other battleground states into account, showed Harris up in four of them (Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin) and Trump leading in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
The fight for the battlegrounds continues Tuesday in one of those states Trump leads, meanwhile, with Harris to announce her running mate in Philadelphia. Perhaps coincidentally, Gov. Josh Shapiro is among the leading contenders for that No. 2 spot.
For his part, Trump posted to Truth Social Friday that heâs agreed to a Fox News debate with Harris in the Keystone State with a âfull arena audience.â But Harris hasnât agreed to that proposal yet.
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