Striking New Polls Reveal How Kamala’s Surge Put Trump on Defensive

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In some good findings for Kamala Harris, the Cook Political Report’s new polls find her leading Donald Trump or tied with him in six of the seven key swing states. Other polls show her doing surprisingly well among key demographics like noncollege whites and Latinos. So far, despite GOP attacks on Harris as a crazy leftist, she appears to be widely perceived as broadly acceptable. We talked to Reed Galen, a veteran former Republican strategist working to win over centrist voters to Harris for the group Join the Union, about why Harris seems to be withstanding the GOP attack machine—and whether it will last. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:41.6	A new batch of polls just came out that are very good news for Kamala Harris.
1:46.0	The Cook Political Report's highly regarded surveys found her leading Donald Trump or tied with him in six of the seven key battleground states.
1:52.0	What's crucial here, however, is that her lead in part reflects real success against Trump
1:57.4	among independent voters and also among voters who don't like either Trump
2:01.9	or President Biden. So far, despite all the attacks on Harris as a DEI hire and crazy leftist
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