By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – US Vice-President and the front runner of democratic party for the White House Kamala Harris’s campaign team on Monday described itself as the “clear underdogs” in a note and said the 2024 White House race will be decided by “razor-thin” margins in the battleground states as in 2020.
The note by Harris campaign chair Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, acknowledged former President Donald Trump, who is the Republican nominee for the White House, remained a “formidable candidate” and said he has a “motivated base of support with more support and higher favorability than he has had at any point since 2020”.
“Make no mistake,” Dillon wrote, “We head into the final stretch of this race as the clear underdogs.”
Harris leads Trump 48 per cent to 46.2 per cent in the average of national polls computed by RealClearPolitics, and 47.1 per cent to 43.8 per cent in the weighted average of national polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight. But the difference is slim, and within the margin of error and the campaign is cautioning Democrats against complacency. The race is tight in the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
“In 2020, the election came down to about 40,000 votes across the battleground states,” Dillon wrote.
“This November, we anticipate margins to be similarly razor-thin.”
The Harris campaign has been trying to open up states dominated by Republicans such as North Carolina and Georgia, where the Vice President had earlier called herself the underdog in this race. Dillon described the road ahead as “very hard”.
She acknowledged Harris and her running mate Tim Walz, the Governor of Minnesota remain relatively unknown.
“While Donald Trump is a heavily defined candidate, voters do not know Vice President Harris or Governor Walz as well,” she wrote.
She added “While we continue to ramp up our organizing and paid efforts, over this final stretch, an aggressive campaigning schedule to introduce and define our ticket to the voters that will decide this election will be critical.”
All eyes are on the upcoming September 10 presidential debate between Harris and Trump.
“The next 65 days will be very hard,” Dillon wrote.
“This race will remain incredibly close, and the voters who will decide this election will require an extraordinary amount of work to win over.”
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