Quote:A presidential race that at one point seemed like it was becoming former President Trump’s to lose increasingly looks like a toss-up as Vice President Harris gains momentum and a new running mate.
The extent to which Harris’s pick of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) helps her is up in the air, but there’s no question the vice president has been riding an upward swing in the polls since President Biden ended his reelection bid late last month and endorsed her.
Harris and Trump are nearly tied in the national polling average tracked by The Hill/Decision Desk HQ, with Trump winning 47.1 percent in the average of polls, and Harris is at 47 percent. Trump initially was up by more than 6 points when Harris declared her candidacy following Biden’s decision to leave the race.
The Hill/Decision Desk HQ model polling average isn’t the only place giving Harris and Democrats new hope, either.
Harris also led Trump in pollster Nate Silver’s electoral forecast for the first time in recent days after Trump had the advantage against first Biden and then Harris for weeks. The vice president’s chance of winning the election also surpassed Trump’s.
Silver last week declared the race a “toss-up,” the same place it is considered now. He had previously seen Trump as a favorite against Biden because of the incumbent’s poorer performance in battleground states even before the debate.
DDHQ has tracked a shift in the Democrats’ favor in nine of 10 key states in addition to the national polling. The largest shift in the polling average from before Biden dropped out has been in North Carolina, which shifted from a Trump lead of 10 points to just 3 points.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/48...tial-race/
Regarding declaring Walz's nomination as pandering to white supremacists, that doesn't seem very different than assuming I got hired because the hiring manager was a member of Aryan Nation.
