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Holy Smokes: Harris Hits the Critical 51%

Polls Can Be Wrong, but Trendlines Tell the Story

Shankar Narayan
4 min readAug 19, 2024

Four different polls that came out last week have Kamala Harris crossing the highly critical 50% barrier. It is a big deal, and I am not surprised to see Team Trump call the polls fake. The polls were gospel when they had a cozy little lead over Biden, but as soon as they lost it, the polls turned into fiction.

They need something to convince their base and donors that they are capable of winning the race. They can’t blame their own strategic mistakes, such as their candidate’s inability to stay on point and explain why he deserves the keys to the White House.

Trump’s entire campaign seems stuck in 2020 and refuses to move forward. The same old lines are presented in the same old way. As a result, he is simply unable to define Kamala Harris, and she just keeps widening the gap.

Anyways.

I didn’t come here to talk just about Trump; I came here to talk about North Carolina. Ladies and gentlemen, Harris has now pulled into the lead in North Carolina.

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Shankar Narayan
Shankar Narayan

Written by Shankar Narayan

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