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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Is Donald Trump’s Campaign in Trouble?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As Kamala Harris takes the lead in election polls, Donald Trump seems puzzled about how to respond. He has the advantage on the economic and security fundamentals, but he's reverting to the kind of scattershot attacks and spats that cost him the 2020 election. Can he show the discipline to define Harris on her record and the issues? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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slash Wall Street. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal

0:21.3

this is Potomac Watch.

0:24.8

Is Donald Trump's presidential campaign in trouble?

0:28.3

That's what some Republicans fear as the polls turn.

0:31.2

Tori Kamala Harris and the former president seems at a loss about how to respond,

0:36.3

how to campaign that looked to be trumps to lose three weeks ago suddenly turned so sharply toward the Democrats. That's our subject today on

0:45.8

Potomac Watch, the daily podcast of the Wall Street Journal opinion page. I'm

0:50.4

Paul Geego, the editor of the opinion pages pages and I'm here with my colleagues Bill McGurn and Kim Strassal

0:56.2

Welcome to you both well the polls have turned but you don't need the polls to see the change

1:01.6

Enthusiasm for Kamla Harris is palpable.

1:04.8

Big crowds and friendly crowds and I dare say fawning media coverage.

1:09.8

Another positive jolt this week with her vice presidential pick of Tim Waltz, at

1:14.7

least in terms of most of the media coverage, and Democrats are certainly united

1:19.5

and now enthusiastic about her campaign, even though not too many weeks ago they were

1:24.4

fretting that she'd be a worse candidate than Joe Biden. Remember that.

1:28.3

Just a couple of indications, new Marquette Law Poll has Harrison an eight-point lead with third-party candidates included.

1:35.8

That's a flip from plus three for Trump not too many weeks ago.

1:39.4

That's an outlier a bit high in the national surveys, but six of the last seven polls that we've seen have

1:45.1

Harris leading and though the polling in the swing states are still close with

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