“Vice President Kamala Harris has spent much of the past two months portraying herself as the underdog in the effectively tied race against former president Donald Trump,” the Washington Post reports.
“In recent days, however, the Democratic presidential nominee and her top aides have struck a somewhat more optimistic tone in public, conveying to supporters and the media that they expect to win the race — albeit by narrow margins.”
“Harris’s advisers attribute the recent movement in their direction among late-deciding voters to the divisive tone that Trump’s campaign has struck in the closing days, and especially to remarks by one of his warm-up speakers at a Madison Square Garden rally who described Puerto Rico as an ‘island of garbage.’”
