Senior Harris Campaign Official Frets That ‘Michigan Or Wisconsin Will Fall’ And North Carolina Is ‘Slipping Away’
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A senior official working on Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s campaign is sounding the alarm about the veep’s narrowing electoral path.
According to a new NBC News report, “three sources with knowledge of the campaign’s strategy” say that the campaign is worried that the Blue Wall could, at least in part, go red this November.
“There has been a thought that maybe Michigan or Wisconsin will fall off,” a senior campaign official told NBC. That same source also warned that North Carolina, once touted by the Harris campaign as a serious pickup opportunity, may no longer be within reach. “Of all of the seven [battleground states], that one seems to be a little bit slipping away,” said the official.
Elections analyst Nate Silver’s polling averages suggest that Harris has exceedingly narrow leads over former President Donald Trump in Michigan (48.2%-47.6%) and Wisconsin (48.6%-48%) while Trump holds an ever so slightly more impressive lead in North Carolina (48.8%-47.8%). According to Silver’s final polling average at FiveThirtyEight in 2020, Joe Biden boasted a 7.9% advantage over Trump in Michigan and 8.4% advantage in Wisconsin. Biden ended up winning the two states by 2.78% and .63%, respectively.
While the three anonymous sources on background voiced concern over Harris’s prospects in the three pivotal swing states, spokeswoman Lauren Hitt projected confidence in a statement issued to NBC.
“We absolutely are competing to win Michigan. We think we will win Michigan,” she said.
Harris campaign battleground state director Dan Kanninen, meanwhile insisted that he doesn’t “see a blue wall path or a Sun Belt path or a Southern path.”
“I see seven states that are as close as it gets that will all be decided by margins on the ground,” he continued. “And so we built an operation that can win close races on the ground, expecting that. And truthfully, one of the seven has as good a chance as any other to be the tipping-point state.”
