We now of course have that to the republican and Democratic National convention n and right now they are telling a story that Vice President harris is doing significant the better than President Biden has been doing and that is comparatively good news for the democrats. They are, apparently better off now with harris as their candidate than they were before the switch. That said, in absolute terms, the National Polls and the swing state polls, broadly speaking dont really give either Party Something to celebrate and Vice President harris may be doing better than biden was against trump but it doesnt mean she is clearly winning and it is a tie between the two category candidates. It produces all sorts of interesting dynamics but when it is as close and a little difference can make a very interesting not only contrast but can make a big difference for the ultimate results and Trump Campaign is maneuvering to try to get them out of the one debate and he agreed to it with Kamala Harris and
They are apparently better off now with harris as their candidate than they were before the switch from biden to harris. That said in absolute terms the polls and Swing State Polls broadly speaking dont really give either party a reason to celebrate right now. Vice president harris maybe doing better than biden was against trump, but it doesnt mean she was clearly winning against trump. Its basically a tie between the two candidates right now. And that produces all sorts of interesting dynamics to watch for. When it is this close little differences between the candidates and their campaigns can make an interesting not only for an interesting contrast, but can make a big difference in terms of the ultimate results. For example, right now Trumps Campaign appears to by maneuvering to try to get him out of the one debate he agreed to with Kamala Harris. That debate is supposed to happen two weeks from now on September 10th but Trumps Campaign and trump himself is trying to get out of it. T
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