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DSandra

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Mon Sep 30, 2024, 08:40 PM Sep 2024

Opinion: How the hell could Trump be running neck-and-neck with Harris? [View all]

https://www.rawstory.com/polls-trump-harris-2669294354/

"With less than 40 days until Election Day, how can it be that Trump has taken a small lead in Arizona and Georgia — two swing states he lost to Biden in 2020? How can he be narrowly leading Harris in the swing state of North Carolina? How can he now be essentially tied with her in the other key swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin?

More generally, how can Trump have chiseled away Harris’s advantage from early August? How is it possible that more voters appear to view Trump favorably now than they did several months ago when he was in the race against Biden?"

"Trump is exploiting this asymmetry so that when it comes to choosing between Trump and Harris, voters will choose the devil they know.

This requires, first, that Trump suck all the media oxygen out of the air so Harris has fewer opportunities to define herself positively."

It is worth a whole read. It is important not to have your head in the sand and stay in your own bubble. We want Kamala to win, damnit! He ends on a positive note, and I will post one readers' solution to this tactic that the Trump campaign may be using, as it is also dangerously similar to Karl Rove's 2004 strategy against Kerry.
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