Vice President Kamala Harris refused to comment on how she’s performing in her campaign’s internal polling as her lead over former President Donald Trump continues to decline ahead of the election.
While speaking to the press in Philadelphia over the weekend, Harris said she preferred to rely on her “instinct” when pressed on whether internal polling is “making or influencing” her campaign’s decisions in the homestretch of the 2024 election cycle.
“To be very frank with you, my internal polling is my instinct. I let the campaign people deal with all that other stuff, and I am responding to what I’m seeing,” Harris said Sunday from the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
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Her words come as an aggregate of polling data from RealClearPolitics showed the vice president no longer holds a lead over Trump despite outperforming him by more than 2 percentage points in early October. Polling conducted by Emerson College paints a similar picture, with data showing Trump has made gains of 2 percentage points since September, making the two candidates tied ahead of the election.
Despite losing ground in the polls, Harris touted the numbers she’s seeing at rallies around the country as reason to believe her camping has sparked winning “enthusiasm.”
“I mean, just two nights ago, we had 30,000 people show up,” Harris told the media in Pennsylvania. “Every event that we do, and the feeling is one of energy and excitement.”
“The momentum is with us,” she concluded.
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Top Harris allies, including former President Barack Obama, have sounded the alarm that margins of support for the vice president are slipping among black men, a key Democratic voting bloc.
Meanwhile, enthusiasm for Harris has soured among black voters in Pennsylvania, a state both presidential campaigns have said is critical to winning the election. The race remains razor-thin in the battleground state, just eight days ahead of Election Day.