“As the presidential contest enters the final sprint, campaign aides and allies close to Vice President Kamala Harris are growing cautiously optimistic about her chances of victory, saying the race is shifting in her favor,” the New York Times reports.
“Top Democratic strategists are increasingly hopeful that the campaign’s attempts to cast former President Donald Trump as a fascist — paired with an expansive battleground-state operation and strength among female voters still energized by the end of federal abortion rights — will carry Ms. Harris to a narrow triumph. Even some close to Mr. Trump worry that the push to label him a budding dictator who has praised Hitler could move small but potentially meaningful numbers of persuadable voters.”
“Officials within the Harris campaign and people with whom they have shared candid assessments believe she remains in a solid position in the Northern ‘blue wall’ states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, saying internal polling shows her slightly ahead in all three — though by as little as half a percentage point.”
