Democrats And Harris Campaign Officials Reportedly Believe ‘She Will Lose’: ‘Already Starting to Point Fingers’

Top Democrats, including those inside working on Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign and in President Joe Biden’s administration, reportedly believe Harris “will lose” the fast-approaching election between herself and former President Donald Trump, and “are already starting to point fingers.”

According to Axios’s Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, “a growing number of top Democrats tell us privately they feel Vice President Harris will lose” in spite of how close the polls remain.

“Our reporting simply reflects scores of conversations with people close to Harris and intimately involved in swing-state races, including officials inside her campaign and top Biden administration officials,” wrote the pair, before citing the “troubling” blame game beginning to play out.

“Top Democrats are already starting to point fingers at who’d be more responsible for a Harris loss — President Biden for dragging his feet, or Harris herself,” report Allen and VandeHei, contrasting the dour mood on the left with how “top Republicans, in private conversations, seem shockingly confident.”

As reasons for Democrats’ pessimism, Allen and VandeHei cited Harris’s “struggles to crisply explain why” voters should support her, as well as early voting returns in Nevada and Republican momentum in Pennsylvania.

Their report comes on the heels of an NBC News story in which a “senior” Harris campaign official acknowledged that “there has been a thought that maybe Michigan or Wisconsin will fall off,” and that North Carolina, once thought of as a prime pickup opportunity for Democrats, appeared to be “slipping away.”

Despite Democrats’ concerns, Harris still leads in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada, according to Nate Silver’s polling aggregations, and neither candidate boasts a lead of over 1.4% in any of the seven major swing states.