The presidential election is expected to be decided in a handful of key battleground states, and campaigning began on Saturday with aides to Kamala Harris’ campaign expressing confidence that her team can beat Donald Trump in those states.
As the former president and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, head to Atlanta on Saturday, Harris’ battleground state representative, Dan Kanninen, wrote in a memo to “connected people” that the Democratic front-runner has already been in the area campaigning, signing contracts with people who will help her get elected.
“Last weekend, we launched our largest organizing effort ever in battleground states to speak directly to voters who will decide the election. And we didn’t stop there. The momentum continued this week, with over 1,000 Georgia volunteers signing up to join the campaign at the Vice President’s rally in Atlanta,” Kanninen claims.
It’s part of a larger effort that went beyond the Peach State, he added, with “volunteers making 2.3 million calls to voters in battleground states, visiting 172,000 homes and sending approximately 2.9 million text messages.”
The final meaning of these engagement metrics remains to be seen, with more than 90 days until the votes are counted, but Kanninen is still confident that “grassroots engagement” and “strong enthusiasm” backed up by data including 62,000 volunteer shift signups (more than half of whom were first-time volunteers) means “Harris is strong in both the Sun Belt and Blue Wall, and there are multiple paths to 270.”
Kanninen argues that the money being put into Harris’ campaign is not being put into her by the opposing campaign.
“Trump is running a lackluster campaign without a clear vision for the future. His new running mate is dampening Republican enthusiasm. And with just three months until Election Day, his campaign is still lagging far behind in building the infrastructure needed to win in key battleground states. For example, in Nevada, the Harris campaign has 13 offices while the Trump campaign has only one. In Pennsylvania, we have 36 affiliate offices while the Trump campaign has only three. In Georgia, we have 24 offices while the Trump campaign did not open its first office until June.”
Of course, Georgia could be a final battleground, as Trump and Vance head to Georgia State University on Saturday afternoon and Harris herself is scheduled to visit Savannah on Friday.
The Republican candidate is sounding confident ahead of the event.
“24 hours until I unleash hell,” Trump claimed in an email to supporters Friday. The Hill reported.“About this time tomorrow, Crooked Kamala’s worst nightmare will come true.”
a Polling Plus (Insider Advantage and Trafalgar Group) A Georgia poll released Friday showed Trump leading 49% to 47% in the margin of error race in a state that pollsters call “a likely indicator state for the election.” The analysis appears to support Kanninen’s point.
“Kamala Harris’s arrival reversed the state’s previous demographic trends, with older voters leaning toward Trump and independents leaning toward Harris. African-American voters appeared to stick with Harris, while Trump maintained a large lead among white voters,” the pollsters argued.
Other recent polls suggest the race is even closer.
A Bloomberg Morning Consult poll released a few days ago showed the race tied at 47% to 47% in Georgia, and the poll, which took into account other battleground states, showed Harris leading in four states (Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin) and Trump leading in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
While the battleground state continues to play out on Tuesday in one of Trump’s leading states, Harris will announce her running mate in Philadelphia, where, perhaps coincidentally, Gov. Josh Shapiro is one of the second-string contenders.
Meanwhile, Trump The truth of society On Friday, he said he had agreed to a Fox News debate with Harris in front of a “sold-out arena” in Florida, but Harris has not yet agreed to the proposal.
