The billion-dollar sprint is on.
The most intense phase of the 2024 election is underway.
Each presidential campaign will raise and spend fortunes to try to tip the scales, perhaps by just tens of thousands of votes in key states, to win in the Electoral College on Nov. 5.
“Step two usually happens post-conventions, post-Labor Day, when the bell rings,” John Anzalone, Biden’s lead pollster in 2020, explained during an event last week hosted by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
Harris leads Trump by 4 points in the latest national polling average charted by political analyst Nate Silver. Her national lead Friday was 7 points, according to a survey conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University. But the polls that really count, in swing states, show Trump firmly in the race. In one example, the most recent RealClearPolitics polling average in Arizona showed Trump up 2 percentage points over Harris.
Trump advisers and his campaign team are encouraging the Republican nominee to focus on policy rather than personal grievances to woo undecided and independent voters.
The former president, distracted by Harris’s surge and Democrats’ barrage of attacks last week, worked to combine takedowns of Harris with explanations of his own outlook and policies, if elected.
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