Trump vs Harris: Swing State Showdown!
Oh, welcome everyone to the circus that is the 2024 presidential race! Pull up a chair, grab your favorite snack — because trust me, you’ll need it! Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are going toe-to-toe like two heavyweight boxers, except instead of gloves, they’re trading barbs sweeter than a barrel of hooch! And who’s winning? Well, it appears swing states are high on their agenda, considering they’ve both been busy nibbling and gnawing for those precious percentage points that seem to be playing hard to get.
Harris recently strutted her stuff into North Carolina — battered not just by politics but also by a hurricane that left behind devastation akin to, well, a Trump rally. The death toll? Over 235. Can you believe it? Talk about “making America great again”… but less in terms of excitement and more in the “what on earth was that?” sense. And while our vice commander-in-chief was slaying those Trump claims about federal help — which, if we’re honest, Trump’s been tossing around like confetti at a wedding — the big boss man, Joe Biden, decided he needed a Florida vacation, a.k.a., an aerial tour of the devastation. Nothing says “I care” like a bird’s eye view of disaster, right?
Now, with merely 23 days left until the elections — and who among us hasn’t felt that creeping anxiety as if we were standing in the fridge staring at leftovers from three months ago? — here comes Trump, who, buoyed by his running mate Sen. J.D. Vance, is wielding federal disaster responses like a lightsaber. “Look, folks!” Trump exclaims as he charms the socks off voters, “The government is as absent as your love life!” Meanwhile, in a strange twist, Vance was going all-in with claims that Americans feel abandoned by their government. Hmmm, they must be reading a different history book than I am!
Now, here’s the kicker: The Latino vote — once a solid blue fortress — is now starting to see cracks. Harris is rustling around 56% support among Latinos, compared to Trump’s 37%. Imagine sitting down at a dinner table and seeing your uncle question your life choices. It seems that a shocking 67% of surveyed Latinos don’t even think Trump is talking about them; in their eyes, he’s more like that eccentric uncle who occasionally makes sense. They support border walls and deportation policies in surprising numbers. Yes, you heard it right! A portion of these voters is inching toward Trump — somehow feeling that they might stay safe behind those walls, like doing a Lego project— building, not tearing down.
The New York Times sagely points out that 9% of Biden voters from 2020 are feeling a little wild— centrifuged towards Trump this time around. Fantastic, isn’t it? It’s like seeing your best friend dating your worst enemy! And while Harris rolls out the red carpet for women and women of color, her relationship with black male voters is about as cozy as a cactus hug. And what a twist! Trump once cheekily insinuated that she “turned black” for convenience — imagine turning your race into a marketing strategy!
The polls, dear readers, now show Harris and Trump neck and neck even in the hotly contested swing states. NBC News recently reported a staggering 48-48 tie. Oh, the drama! “Any sign of momentum for Kamala Harris has stopped,” a Democratic pollster observed, probably clutching a coffee cup filled with existential dread.
Tomorrow, both candidates are strutting their stuff in Pennsylvania — the big kahuna of swing states! If there’s one thing we can guarantee, it’s that the stakes are high, the accusations are flying, and the rhetoric is richer than a chocolate cake at a birthday party. Will Harris manage to rally the troops, or will Trump continue to charm his way through? Stay tuned, because a political plot twist is always just around the corner!
Kamala Harris e Donald Trump they are conquering the swing states, trying to nibble away at a percentage point lead in a race for the White House that has been stalled for weeks. Polls show the vice president is performing lower than expected among mainstream Democratic electorates.
Harris went in North Carolinahit hard by a hurricane that devastated several communities and killed more than 235 people in the southeastern United States two weeks ago, to directly refute Trump’s claims that federal agencies have done little to help victims of the disaster. Joe Biden it was instead in Florida to assess the damage caused by the most recent Hurricane Milton and to highlight the federal government’s commitment to relief and reconstruction efforts.
With just 23 days until the Nov. 5 election, former Republican President Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vancecontinue to use the federal disaster response as an electoral weapon. Biden took an aerial tour of the devastation in Tampa Bay and nearby St. Petersburg, and received a briefing on authorities’ response. “It’s times like this that we come together to care for each other, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans,” the President said. And while ABC talk show host Vance said “Americans feel abandoned by their government,” Trump aimed his anti-migrant rhetoric at Arizona, a day after speaking with Latino leaders from neighboring Nevada of the migration crisis.
Although the former president’s rhetoric, often peppered with fake news, is aimed precisely against Hispanics, Harris has not managed to stop the bleeding of Latino voters from the Democratic to the Republican front. The latest data New York Times poll/Siena College show that Harris is underperforming other Democratic candidates in the recent past among the Latino electorate, currently earning only the 56 percent of the population compared to Trump’s 37 percent. A margin of just 19 points when Biden’s margin in 2020 was 26 points and Hillary Clinton’s was 39 points in 2016.
A phenomenon which, according to the New York Times, is explained by the fact that 67% of those interviewed believe that Trump was not referring to them when he spoke about immigrants. Support for Trump’s more aggressive immigration policies is striking especially among Hispanics: More than a third of those surveyed said they supported building the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and the deportation of undocumented immigrants. These are mostly Latin Americans born in the United States.
The results also suggest that Trump is winning over a small but significant portion of voters who voted for Biden in 2020: 9% said they would vote for Trump this year. The Times points out that since the elections that brought Barack Obama to power with 70% of the Latino vote, that support has been eroded precisely by Trump.
And while Harris has big advantages with women, particularly women of color, she must struggle to earn the trust of black male voters, a growing number of whom lean toward the Republican who in July impeached her opponent — the first black and South Asian vice president of the nation – of having “turned black” for convenience. Polls show Harris and Trump neck and neck, even in the seven swing states that are likely to determine the outcome of the election.
An NBC News national poll released Sunday shows a 48-48 tie. “Any sign of momentum for Kamala Harris has stopped,” Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt said. “The race is head to head.” Tomorrow both candidates will hold campaign events in the most important up for grabs state of all: La Pennsylvania.
