Democratic insiders and strategists as final hours of election approach express confidence that Vice President Kamala Harris will defeat former President Donald Trump on Tuesday at the polls.
“Nauseatingly optimistic” is how Democrats described themselves to New York magazine as the clock continues to tick down on the final 100 hours of the election cycle.
Trump and Harris both delivered their respective closing arguments earlier this week, with Trump addressing massive crowds at a historic rally at Madison Square Garden, and Harris delivering her final speech in the nation’s capital on Tuesday at the Ellipse , located just south of White Avenue. Home and north of the National Mall.
Polls are neck and neck, with a Fox News national survey released last month finding Trump had a two-point advantage over Harris, while both men focused on campaigning in key battleground states to increase the weight on their respective policies. Balance. As of Saturday morning, Trump had nine events planned leading up to Election Day, zigzagging from battlegrounds such as Pennsylvania and Michigan to Georgia and also Virginia.
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum on the campus of East Carolina University on October 13, 2024. , in Greenville, North Carolina. (Alex Wong)
Harris is expected to travel to Georgia and North Carolina on Saturday, before delivering her final speech to voters in Michigan’s rust belt on Sunday. As she completes her final leg of the campaign since her ascension the top of the Democratic ticket in July, when President Biden withdrew from the race, her allies touted that she had victory within her grasp.
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David Plouffe, a senior adviser to the Harris campaign, said this weekend that voters deciding who to vote for late in the election will benefit the Harris campaign and lead them to victory.
Former President Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, speaks at Turning Point’s United for Change rally at the Thomas & Mack Center Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“The question is: those who have not yet decided who to vote for, who will actually vote?” he said Friday on CNN, pointing out that current polls show Harris and Trump tied. “And our feeling last week is that the people who made their decision last week we’re doing pretty well with, and we like the people who haven’t made their decision yet…”
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“It’s very important to look at who these undecided people are,” added Plouffe.
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville, who worked as a senior strategist for former President Bill Clinton’s party. successful elections of 1992, touted that Harris’ financial support and “united” Democratic Party were setting her up for a victory over Trump next Tuesday.
“I think she’s going to win,” Carville said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “She has more money, more energy, has a more united party, has better surrogates, and he is crazy.”
New York Review detailed in an article this week that the buzz among Democrats is that they are cautiously optimistic about a victory Tuesday, “based largely on the campaign’s close monitoring of early voting data from the seven states in the field of battle and its evolving understanding of who has already voted. and who remains to be convinced.”
“This posture is driven both by reports on the ground, particularly those from canvassers in competitive suburbs, and by senior advisors reviewing Wilmington’s analyses. It is far from a prediction of victory. Instead, it is the belief that Harris maintains workable paths toward winning a majority or plurality of votes in hotly contested states – each of which they view as effectively tied, and which they view almost all as harboring a Democratic advantage in the operations to obtain the vote”, reported the media. .
Other Democratic insiders are reporting more or less the same thing on social media and in media interviews.
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Jon Favreau, former President Barack Obama’s speechwriting director, posted on highlighting jokes made by a comedian at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden that were viewed negatively by the media and Democrats and other political issues he considers electoral demerits.
Daily Beast columnist and political affairs analyst David Rothkopf said in an article Friday that “Kamala Harris will be next President of the United States,“, highlighting Harris’ “outstanding campaign,” her speeches “imbued with a new energy and vision” for the nation, and her “‘closing address’ on the Ellipse in Washington.”
“On January 20, 2025, she will become the first female president of the United States, the first woman of color in the United States to serve as commander in chief, and the first Asian American person to serve as the country’s chief executive,” he said. he writes.
Harry Enten, CNN’s senior political reporter, said Thursday there were “clear” signs of a Harris victory.
“And the number one sign is that Harris, simply put, is more popular than Donald Trump,” he said.
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris sits down with former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for a town hall at the Royal Oak Music Theater October 21, 2024, in Royal Oak, Michigan. Cheney joined Vice President Harris for stops Monday in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. (Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images)
THE The Trump campaign and its allies Meanwhile, they remained confident that the Republican ticket will be victorious on Tuesday, as Trump rallies his base to vote early and attracts new supporters with his pledge to “make America great again” following the Biden administration -Harris. As the cycle entered its final weeks, Trump said at a Las Vegas rally last month that Harris’ campaign was “imploding” and that she had a victory in her sights.
“(Harris) is imploding, if you look at it. Because, look, I’m not supposed to say this, but we’re way ahead,” Trump said last Thursday.
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“Now we’re ahead by a lot in Nevada. We’re ahead by a lot in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Even in states that are usually never in play for 50, 60, 70 years. . But the fact is that the States, other States too, the big States, are all at stake and they please us. But you know what? They think she is blatantly incompetent. Let’s be real, she’s not doing well,” Trump continued.
Former US First Lady Melania Trump applauds her husband, former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, after his speech at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 27, 2024 (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Getty Images)
The 45th president added during his rally at Madison Square Garden that he would achieve “the greatest victory in the history of our country” on Election Day.
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“We are facing something much bigger than Joe or Kamala. And much more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious, twisted, radical left-wing machine that runs today’s Democratic Party. This does not are just vessels. In fact, they” They are perfect vessels, because they will never harm them. They will do what they want. I know a lot of them, but they’re smart, and they’re vicious. we must defeat them,” he said.
“We are going to achieve the greatest victory in the history of our country on November 5, and it will be the greatest victory in history. We are going to make America great again.”
