Democratic insider heads into final election confident of Harris' victory: 'Nauseatingly optimistic'

In the final stages of the election, Democratic Party officials and strategists are expressing confidence that Vice President Kamala Harris will defeat former President Donald Trump at the polls on Tuesday.

“Nauseatingly optimistic” is how Democrats described themselves in New York magazine as the final 100 hours of the election cycle ticked down.

Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris gave their respective closing arguments earlier this week, with Mr. Trump addressing a large crowd at a historic rally at Madison Square Garden and Ms. Harris speaking at a rally just outside the White House in the nation's capital on Tuesday. He gave his final speech at Ellipse, located in the south. Mansion and north of the National Mall.

Polls are close, with a FOX News national poll released last month showing Trump with a 2-point lead over Harris, but both men are looking to increase their political prominence. , focuses on campaigns in key battleground states. Scales. As of Saturday morning, Trump had nine events scheduled leading up to Election Day, zigzagging from battleground states like Pennsylvania and Michigan to Georgia and Virginia.

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Harris will visit Georgia and North Carolina on Saturday, and will make her final address to Rust Belt voters in Michigan on Sunday. Since he rose to the top of the Democratic field in July, when President Biden dropped out of the race, his allies have touted that victory is within reach as the campaign draws to a close. .

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David Plouffe, a senior adviser to the Harris campaign, said over the weekend that voters deciding who to vote for in the final stages of the election will benefit the Harris campaign and lead it to victory.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Turning Point United for Change rally at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Thursday, October 24, 2024. (Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

“The question is, of the people who haven't decided who to vote for yet, who will actually vote?” he said on CNN on Friday, with current polls showing Harris and Trump tied. pointed out. “And our feeling last week is that we're doing very well with the people who have made decisions this past week, and we like the people who haven't made decisions yet…”

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“It's really important to find out who the undecided people are,” Plouffe added.

James Carville, a longtime Democratic strategist who served as chief strategist for former President Bill Clinton's successful 1992 campaign, said Harris' financial support and “unity” of the Democratic Party led to Tuesday's victory over Trump. He emphasized that he is preparing for this.

“I think she's going to win,” Carville said Friday on MSNBC's “Morning Joe.” “She has more money, more energy, a more united party, better agents, and he's stone-cold.”

New York Magazine detailed in an article this week that the buzz among Democrats is cautious optimism about Tuesday's victory, saying, “This is primarily a hard-fought race. “This is based on the campaign's close monitoring of early voting data in seven states and a growing understanding of who is eligible to vote.” The votes have already been cast, now it's just a matter of who you convince. ”

“This attitude is driven both by reports from the field, especially from recruiters in competitive suburbs, and by senior advisers who are closely watching Wilmington's analysis. It is far from a winning prediction. Rather, Mr. Harris can achieve it. Democrats have a majority or plurality of votes in battleground states, each state is effectively tied, and nearly all states have an advantage in vote-cancellation operations. “They regard it as such,” the newspaper reported. .

Other Democratic Party insiders have given more or less similar reports on social media and in media interviews.

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For example, Jon Favreau, former President Barack Obama's speechwriting director, posted on He pointed out the president's jokes. Comedians who attended President Trump's Madison Square Garden rally have been viewed negatively by the media and Democrats, who also consider other political issues to be a detriment to the election.

“Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States,” Daily Beast columnist and political affairs analyst David Rothkopf declared in a column Friday, citing Harris' “exceptional campaign” and speech. It was filled with a new atmosphere.” Energy and Vision for the Nation,” and her “‘Final Argument’ on the Washington Ellipse.”

“On January 20, 2025, she will become America's first female president, America's first woman of color commander-in-chief, and America's first person of Asian descent to lead the nation,” he said. I wrote it.

CNN senior political data reporter Harry Enten said Thursday there are “clear” signs that Harris will win.

“And the number one sign is, simply put, that Harris is more popular than Donald Trump,” he said.

Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris sits with former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) during a town hall at the Royal Oak Music Theater on October 21, 2024 in Royal Oak, Michigan. Cheney joined Vice President Harris on Monday for a trip to Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. (Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign and its allies say Trump has rallied his base to vote early and won new supporters through his promise to “Make America Great Again” after the Biden-Harris administration. As a result, he remains firmly convinced that the Republican Party will win on Tuesday. As the cycle enters its final week, President Trump said at a rally in Las Vegas last month that the Harris campaign was “falling apart” and that he had his sights on victory.

“If you look closely,[Harris]is actually imploding, because, I shouldn't say it, we have a huge lead,” Trump said last Thursday.

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“Right now, we have a big lead in Nevada, we have a big lead in Arizona, we have a big lead in Michigan, we have a big lead in Pennsylvania, we have a big lead in Wisconsin. Even states that don't normally have elections for 50, 60, 70 years… But the fact is, all the states, other states, big states are involved, and they like us, but they think she's totally incompetent.''Trump He continued.

Former US first lady Melania Trump praises her husband, former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, after speaking at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 27, 2024 (Photo) (Courtesy of Angela Weiss/AFP) (Getty Images)

The 45th president added at a rally at Madison Square Garden that he would achieve “the greatest victory in the history of our country” on Election Day.

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“We are fighting something much bigger than Joe and Kamala, and something much more powerful than them: the huge, evil, crooked radical left that runs today's Democratic Party. They're just vessels. In fact, they're perfect vessels that never give them any trouble. They know that many of them are just this amorphous people, and they're smart. We must defeat them,” he said.

“On November 5th, we will have the greatest victory in our nation's history. It will be the greatest victory in history. We will make America great again.”

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