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Donald Trump’s Doing Well in Sunbelt States.
There’s some more optimism in the polls.
Suffice it to say that after the debate performance, former President Donald Trump and his campaign staff will take the silver linings where they can get them. The surge of Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has been undeniable and impossible to ignore, and frankly I think the frustration with that reality was likely a contributor in that disaster class of a debate performance.
But, there have been some silver linings to point to, and while I’m not at all confident in his chances Kamala Harris is certainly not running away with it. Polling in sunbelt swing states offers data to suggest that the former President is still very much in this race.
Adam Nagourney, Ruth Igielnik, and Camille Baker with The New York Times write:
“…Voters across the Sun Belt say that Donald J. Trump improved their lives when he was president — and worry that a Kamala Harris White House would not — setting the stage for an extraordinarily competitive contest in three key states, according to the latest polls from The New York Times and Siena College.
The polls found that Mr. Trump has gained a lead in Arizona and remains ahead in Georgia, two states that he lost to President Biden in 2020. But in North Carolina, which has…
