The Harris Honeymoon Is Over

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Is Kamala Harris’s surge beginning to ebb? That’s the question raised by the recent New York Times/Siena College poll, which finds Donald J. Trump narrowly ahead of Ms. Harris among likely voters nationwide. Nate Cohn, who covers American politics, explains why some of Ms. Harris’s strengths from just a few weeks ago are now becoming her weaknesses, and the opening that’s creating for the former president. Guest: Nate Cohn, who covers American politics, explains why some of Ms. Harris’s strengths from just a few weeks ago are now becoming her weaknesses, and the opening that’s creating for the former president.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisee, and this is the Daily.
0:05.0	A major new poll from the Times finds that the political honeymoon is over
0:12.8	for Vice President Kamala Harris.
0:15.3	Today, my colleague Nate Cohn,
0:19.1	on how some of Harris's strengths
0:21.5	from just a few weeks ago are now becoming her weaknesses and
0:25.8	the opening that that is creating for Donald Trump.
0:29.6	It's Monday, September 9th.
0:35.0	Nate,
0:37.0	Nate,
0:40.0	Nate,
0:41.0	Welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me. So, Nate, welcome back to the show.
0:43.0	Thanks for having me.
0:44.2	So Nate, you have always made clear to us that in a presidential campaign,
0:49.1	polls are a snapshot of a political moment in time.
0:52.3	And the last time we took that kind of snapshot back in August,
0:56.0	Kamala Harris had just replaced Joe Biden
0:59.0	as the Democratic nominee.
1:00.0	And for Harris, it was a very good snapshot. Talk to us about this latest poll that we did and what it reveals about this moment in time.
1:09.0	Well, when we last talked, we had just found Kamala Harris moving ahead of Donald Trump in the key battleground
1:17.0	states.
1:18.2	And now we have a little bit of a different story.
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