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Political analyst and senior advisor to Kamala Harris, David Plouffe, is saying that late deciders, the voters who may determine the election, are choosing Harris over Trump. Plouffe was campaign manager for Barack Obama in 2008.
David Plouffe wrote on X that late-deciding voters are “breaking by double digits” for Kamala Harris, with “the remaining undecideds looking more friendly” to them than Donald Trump.
Politico: “His comments echo those shared by senior campaign officials earlier Friday on a call with reporters.”
It’s helpful, from experience, to be closing a Presidential campaign with late deciding voters breaking by double digits to you and the remaining undecideds looking more friendly to you than your opponent. Close race, turnout and 4 days of hard work will be key. But good mo.
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The official said that a recent focus group with undecided voters in a battleground state showed that the racist, misogynistic and vulgar language at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York over the weekend isn’t just impacting Puerto Rican and Latino voters, but undecided voters as a whole.
“It really kind of crystallized for them the choice in their minds between the vice president, who they're seeing talk about being a president for everyone, someone focused on them and solving their problems, and Trump, and these really kind of dark, divisive language and events and activities,” the official said. “We don't always see, when we're talking to swing voters, anything that you can really see them kind of finalize their point of view or finalize their opinion.”
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One thing that is swinging squarely in Harris’ favor, though, is how voters, particularly independents, view the economy — long one of her biggest challenges at a time when right-track, wrong-track numbers have been working against her and she finds herself saddled to an unpopular incumbent.
On Friday, the latest Marist poll found that among Pennsylvania independents — perhaps the whole ballgame — Harris had overtaken Trump on the economy, seeing a 19-point shift in which candidate they think is better fit to handle it, with Harris beating Trump 55 percent to 40 percent. In September, that same measure saw Trump edging Harris 49 percent to 45 percent.
The poll, of a relatively small subgroup, doesn’t seem to be a blip. Other polls this week, too, show Trump’s lead shrinking on the economy, voters’ professed top issue. (A Washington Post poll had Trump still ahead on who can better handle the economy, but with the gap narrowing from a 9 percentage point advantage to a 5 point edge.
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“Gallup polling shows Dems with a 10-point enthusiasm advantage over Republicans.”
