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If the election were held today, Kamala Harris would defeat Donald Trump by a landslide.
I think ‘rout’ would be the better word to use.
Better than Biden in 2020’ should be the mantra of Kamala Harris’s campaign to win the 2024 presidential election. Given the increasing political divide in the United States and the way the Electoral College functions, doing as well as we did last time won’t cut it. It might, but most likely it won’t.
One of the challenges Biden faced until he dropped out in July was that he was trailing his own 2020 numbers with women, Black Americans, Hispanics, White college-educated voters, and nearly every demographic that chose him over Trump. When Harris took over, things started moving in the right direction, but she was still not reaching Biden’s 2020 numbers. Progress was being made, but it wasn’t enough — until now.
The latest poll released by NBC News shows that Harris has finally hit closer to the critical Biden 2020 coalition numbers.
As you can see, Harris still has some way to go before she reaches Biden’s 2020 numbers with Black Americans, Hispanics, and White…