Harris and Walz ARE campaigning HARD to get out their vote, while Trump is coasting on reserve…..
This while Harris still narrowly leads in National and most of the Swing states polling averages….
Donald Trump has discouraged early and mail-in voting in past elections to his supporters…
The Harris campaign and Democratic groups are working hard to push their supporters to vote early in this year’s election.
Team Harris wants to maximize its early advantage, especially given that some Democratic-leaning groups — notably young people — are seen as unreliable voters come Election Day.
The hope among Democrats is that an early-vote advantage could bolster Vice President Harris against the traditional GOP edge among Election Day voters.
There are encouraging signs for Team Harris so far, at least if the assumption is that early-vote numbers can be taken as an indicator of overall voter enthusiasm.
In Georgia, about 310,000 votes were cast Tuesday alone. The secretary of state’s office noted that this was a massive increase over the figures for first-day voting either in the 2020 presidential election or at the 2022 midterms, each of which saw roughly 135,000 Georgians vote.
Early voting “helps Democrats,” Democratic strategist Basil Smikle said, adding that he believed this was one of the reasons why former President Trump specifically, and Republicans generally, have in the past cast aspersions on some methods of early voting, including the widespread use of drop boxes.
Trump has been notably less hostile to early-voting methods this year — a change that is perhaps as close as he will come to a tacit admission that his previous rhetoric hurt his own party…
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“I think it’s encouraging,” [ Democratic strategist] Longabaugh said. “Anytime in a battleground state that the vote is robust, I think that’s probably good for Democrats.”….
Despite your earlier declarative statement ,”it is not a tossup.”
This election is still very much one.
My answer remains the SAME….
Harris LEADS in the National polling averages
She LEADS in the swing state EV number’s
She LEADS in separate groups
It IS MY opinion that she has a Better chance to become President than Donald Trump
I also believe that Democrats WILL take the House
And LOSE their Senate majority
Since you are usually wrong in your “predictions?”
I am full of foreboding as to the result of the presidential election.
Harris isn’t Hillary and Biden WON….
My wife says the way she can lose is because some Americans won’t or can’t vote for a woman President…..
We already broke the color barrier
Meanwhile the New York Times says it is “ unclear” what the early voting numbers in North Carolina mean.
Another Post coming on the Early vote…