This Reuters/Ipsos poll is the first to show a ‘bounce’ * for the Vice President after President Biden announced he would NOT run for a second term and he was endorsing Kamala Harris to go ahead with the nomination….
It IS BIG NEWS….
We’ll have to wait to see if there are more polls with this as a SOLID trend….
But the REAL need is for Harris to climb ahead of Trump in enough states to get to 270 State Electoral Votes…..
From a new memo from Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio:
“Given what has happened over the past couple of days and her impending VP choice, there is no question that Harris will get her bump earlier than the Democrat’s Convention. And that bump is likely to start showing itself over the next few days and will last a while until the race settles back down.”
He also said the Harris bump will “last a while.”
A new NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist pollfinds Donald Trump edging Kamala Harris nationally, 46% to 45% with 9% undecided.
In a five-way contest, Trump and Harris are tied at 42% each, followed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at 7% while Cornel West and the Green Party’s Jill Stein get just 1%.
Key finding: “With more folks undecided, there’s an opportunity for Harris that Biden did not seem to have. It’s another key indication of just how much of a restart this move is for the campaig