We’ve been seeing the media try to hype up Kamala Harris since she was handed the nomination on a silver platter, putting out a drumbeat that she was in the lead in the race. With some of those polls, you had to look to the cross tabs and see that they had questionable methodology including oversampling Democrats or having too small a sample to be reliable. So, it’s hard to make a judgment about the polls when you’re getting questionable data.
Now in the middle of all that, there was an admission by officials with a top, pro-Harris super PAC that their polling for Kamala Harris ‘is much less rosy’ than public surveys” Chauncey McLean, president of Future Forward said this past week. He warned that the race was much closer in the key states. The group has spoken to more than 375,000 people:
He warned that Harris has yet to fully rebuild the Biden coalition of Blacks, Hispanics and young voters that brought him the White House in 2020.
McLean said polling shows the public wants more detailed policy positions from Harris.
He says they need more concrete examples of how she may differ from Biden and make their lives easier economically.
Then we saw the betting markets flip toward former President Donald Trump, something you wouldn’t expect with the DNC on, you would think the bump would go to them. But it was such a mess and Harris still didn’t put out any real policies or plans. Are Americans really going to be taken in by such a convention?
But even before we can get to any real poll results to tell, Harris may have gotten a body blow from Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s endorsement of Trump.