Vice President Kamala Harris is on the verge of winning two key swing states that would spell the end for Donald Trump, a former Republican National Committee chairman says. The Democratic nominee could potentially win North Carolina and Florida, clinching the election straight away, according to top Republican Michael Steele, who chaired the party’s committee from 2009 to 2011. If Harris wins North Carolina and Florida, along with all the other swing states President Joe Biden won in 2020, she would receive 272 Electoral College votes, enough to win the election, even if former President Donald Trump wins all the other swing states. With 16 votes from Georgia, Harris would have 288.
Speaking on MSNBC Sunday, Steele said several traditionally Republican states could fall to Harris in November, including highlighting Georgia, which has been a top priority for both candidates. “This coalition that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have created right now is not just one to watch,” Steele said. “It’s going to be one for the history books when this axis leads to victory. Florida and North Carolina are going to fall, along with Georgia.”
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Steele attributed the changes to his party’s hardline stance on abortion, which he said could alienate traditional Republican voters in swing states, especially women. “Abortion is in play. What it does is it attracts center-right voters who would otherwise be aligned with the Republican Party. That falls because of the authoritarian nature of how Republicans want to control women’s bodies. The right is taking away rights, and that’s not good.” The first black chairman of the RNC, Steele has long been a Trump critic, refusing to endorse him in both 2016 and 2020, and branding him a racist in 2018 for the former president’s description of “shithole” countries.
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