Harris marketing campaign says undecided voters are breaking their approach — however warns Trump will falsely declare victory | EUROtoday

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With lower than every week earlier than Americans head to the polls on Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris’s marketing campaign is feeling the wind at their backs after a collection of unforced errors by Donald Trump might have helped push undecided voters her approach.

According to senior Harris marketing campaign officers, undecided voters are casting their ballots for the vp by a big margin and have been pushed by Trump’s excessive rhetoric and offensive remarks made by his surrogates, together with at his Madison Square Garden rally final weekend.

One official instructed reporters on Friday that voters in a spotlight group held in a swing state this week have been turned off by the hateful remarks directed at Puerto Rico by a pro-Trump comic throughout the rally.

The comic, Tony Hinchcliffe, in contrast the US territory — with residents who’re American residents who can vote in the event that they reside within the United States — to a “floating island of garbage.”

The official mentioned these remarks, plus “dark, divisive language” from Trump, seem to have made a distinction in the previous couple of days.

“We don’t always see… them kind of finalize their point of view or finalize their opinion. But we definitely saw and are seeing in these groups that was sort of like the last straw for these folks,” the official mentioned. “They clearly did not like what they were seeing from Donald Trump… and they like what they were seeing from the vice president.”

The senior marketing campaign official additionally mentioned the information they’ve exhibits swing voters coming round to Harris because the election approaches.

“Our internal data is telling us and showing us that we are winning battleground voters who have made up their minds in the last week, and we’re winning them by double digit margin,” they mentioned.

“So we have believed all along that there were still undecided voters here, and that the close of this race was really, really important, and we are seeing that to be the case as we are closing out in the last week. Everyone that is breaking, is breaking in heavy margin to us, and … we are still seeing that people are undecided, but those folks are more open to supporting us than Trump.”

As Election Day approaches, the Harris marketing campaign can also be leaning on a floor sport operation that dates again to the operation constructed up for President Joe Biden when he was assumed to be the Democratic Party’s alternative for this 12 months’s election.

In Pennsylvania — a key swing state that Harris should win to have a path to the 270 electoral votes she must defeat Trump — Harris’s marketing campaign is known to be on a path to have knocked on at the least 5 million doorways and reached a million voters for face-to-face conversations throughout this election season.

A marketing campaign official additionally mentioned volunteers have made 100 million calls to battleground state voters and pressured that these engagement efforts would proceed via Election Day.

“We are seeing undecided and battleground state voters care deeply about they are seeing the choice and they are seeing the close, and we are getting more votes as we close this out, and we have the organization to ensure we capitalize on every single person that we can in these battleground states and feel very good about the momentum the organization and the strength of our close as we head into this final weekend,” the official mentioned.

Meanwhile, the Trump marketing campaign has been ratcheting up efforts to put the groundwork for an additional try to overturn a possible loss to the vp.

Trump-aligned teams comparable to longtime aide Stephen Miller’s America First Legal and varied Republican Party organs — in addition to the ex-president’s marketing campaign — have filed lawsuits in courts throughout the US alleging varied levels of irregularities or violations of election legislation, with the obvious goal of making an aura of scandal across the 2024 presidential race.

Another senior Harris marketing campaign official accustomed to the Democratic marketing campaign’s personal authorized efforts instructed reporters that the vp and her mind belief “fully expect” Trump to falsely declare victory on election night time, lengthy earlier than all of the votes are counted.

“This should be no surprise, because he lies all the time, and he wants to sow doubt about a loss that he anticipates is coming,” mentioned the official, who pressured that the Harris marketing campaign is assured that Trump’s authorized gambits will probably be as unsuccessful as his prior effort to overturn his 2020 election loss.

“He did this before, it failed. If he does it again, it will fail,” the official mentioned.

“Meanwhile, we are focused on making sure that all of our voters have the information to get out and vote, and that they feel confident doing it safely and securely, and that they know that we’re going to protect that vote and that we are going to ensure that it counts no matter what Trump and his campaign are doing.”