Kamala campaign claims they're no longer trailing Trump

As the presidential election campaign enters its final days, Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris says she is not trailing former President Donald Trump, as the electoral contest has become a tossup between the two polarizing figures, The Washington Post wrote Sunday.

In recent days, however, the Democratic presidential nominee and her top aides have started sounding confident, as though they believe they have already won.

Trump’s campaign notes that it has performed well in early voting and is polling ahead of Harris in most battleground states. The campaign remains optimistic about winning some states that have historically leaned Democratic in recent elections. However, Harris continues to have more funding than Trump and is using it on staff and operations, The Post notes.

Just last week, Democratic super PAC Future Forward was cautioning Harris against making her attacks on Trump too personal and advised her to go easier on references to fascism. The odds seemed to be turning against her too, as her chances had diminished to 37 percent from 54 percent, according to The Post. Supposedly, internal data indicated on Saturday that the odds for Harris were back up to 49 percent and reportedly because more Independents have decided for Harris at the eleventh hour.

Despite the advice from Future Forward, Harris’s campaign team believes they are gaining ground on Trump by highlighting the language used at last weekend’s Madison Square Garden rally that featured the line about Puerto Rico being an “island of garbage.” “If you look at the full data, the conclusion is crystal clear: She’s ahead in the states she needs to win to get to 270 and neck-and-neck across the battleground,” Future Forward President Chauncey McLean said in a statement. “The trajectory of the race is increasingly in her favor and she’s on track to win.”

Some in the Harris camp are pointing to the numbers in Iowa, which Trump won by eight points in 2020 but which one poll from the Des Moines Register has Harris leading by three points. Lately Harris has also been promoting herself as the candidate who can work with Republicans like former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) even though President Joe Biden referred to Trump supporters as “garbage.”

The Harris campaign believes that Trump’s rhetoric is divisive, while their own is not. Former President Barack Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, posted  style="text-decoration:none">on X: “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.”

Trump’s team says Harris is desperately trying to create last-minute crises, even as it falsely accused Trump of wanting to put LIz Cheney in front of a firing squad. “They are literally spending their last days doing base plays,” a senior Trump adviser told The Post on the condition of anonymity.

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) said the election will be decided by which candidate succeeds in getting out the vote on Tuesday. “This is a very tight race and it is going to come down to who votes and we are making sure we turn out every one of our votes,” Dingell told The Post.