Dem insiders head into final election stretch confident on Harris win: 'Nauseously optimistic'

Democratic insiders and strategists heading into the last hours of the predetermination are expressing assurance that Vice President Kamala Harris volition decision erstwhile President Donald Trump connected Tuesday astatine the ballot box. 

"Nauseously optimistic," is however Democrats described themselves to New York mag arsenic the timepiece continues ticking for the last 100 hours of the predetermination cycle. 

Trump and Harris some delivered what were their respective closing arguments earlier this week, with Trump addressing monolithic crowds astatine a historical rally astatine Madison Square Garden, and Harris delivering her last transportation successful the nation’s superior Tuesday astatine the Ellipse, located conscionable southbound of the White House and northbound of the National Mall. 

Polls are neck-and-neck, with a Fox News nationalist survey published past period uncovering that Trump had a two-point borderline implicit Harris, portion the brace person zeroed-in connected campaigning successful cardinal battleground states to summation the value connected their respective governmental scales. As of Saturday morning, Trump has 9 events scheduled until Election Day, zig-zagging from battlegrounds specified arsenic Pennsylvania and Michigan to Georgia and besides Virginia. 

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Democratic statesmanlike nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a run rally astatine the Williams Arena astatine Minges Coliseum connected the field of East Carolina University connected October 13, 2024, successful Greenville, North Carolina.  (Alex Wong)

Harris is expected to question to Georgia and North Carolina connected Saturday, earlier delivering her last transportation to voters successful Michigan’s rust loop connected Sunday. As she caps disconnected her last limb of the run since ascending the apical of the Democratic ticket successful July, erstwhile President Biden dropped retired of the race, her allies person touted that she has a triumph wrong her grasp. 

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David Plouffe, a elder advisor to the Harris campaign, said this play that voters deciding for whom to formed their ballot precocious into the predetermination are going to payment the Harris run and transportation them to a victory. 

Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump speaks during Turning Point's United for Change rally astatine the Thomas & Mack Center connected Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, successful Las Vegas. (Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

"The question is, of the radical who person not yet decided who to ballot for, who are really going to vote?" helium said connected CNN Friday, noting that existent polls amusement Harris and Trump tied. "And our consciousness successful the past week is that the radical who person made up their caput successful the past week we’re doing rather good with, and we similar the radical who person yet to marque a determination . . . ."

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"It’s precise important to look astatine who those undecideds are," Plouffe added.

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville, who worked arsenic pb strategist for erstwhile President Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 election, touted that Harris’ fiscal backing and "united" Democrat Party sets her up for a triumph implicit Trump travel Tuesday. 

"I deliberation she’s going to win," Carville said connected MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" connected Friday. "She’s got much money, much energy, has a much agreed party, has amended surrogates, and he’s stone-a--nuts."

New York magazine elaborate successful a portion this week that the buzz among Democrats is they are cautiously optimistic of a triumph connected Tuesday, "largely based connected the campaign’s adjacent monitoring of aboriginal voting information from the 7 battleground states, and its evolving knowing of who has already formed ballots and who’s near to convince."

"The posture is driven some by reports from the field, particularly from canvassers successful competitory suburbs, and by elder advisers staring astatine the analytics successful Wilmington. It’s acold from a prediction of a win. Instead, it’s a content that Harris maintains achievable paths to winning a bulk oregon plurality of the ballot successful the tightly contested states — each of which they spot arsenic efficaciously tied, and astir each of which they spot arsenic location to a Democratic vantage successful get-out-the-vote operations," the outlet reported. 

Other Democratic insiders are reporting much oregon little the aforesaid connected societal media and during media interviews. 

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Jon Favreau, erstwhile President Barack Obama’s manager of speechwriting, posted connected X, for example, that though the contention is an "extremely adjacent toss-up," helium argued that Trump isn’t ending connected a beardown note, pointing to jokes made by a comedian astatine Trump's Madison Square Garden rally that were viewed negatively by the media and Democrats and different governmental issues helium sees arsenic predetermination demerits. 

Daily Beast columnist and political affairs expert David Rothkopf declared successful a file connected Friday that, "Kamala Harris is going to beryllium the next president of the United States," pointing to Harris’ "exceptional campaign," speeches that were "suffused with a caller vigor and vision" for the nation, and her "‘closing argument’ connected the Ellipse successful Washington." 

"On January 20, 2025, she volition go America’s archetypal pistillate president, America’s archetypal pistillate of colour to beryllium commander-in-chief and America’s archetypal idiosyncratic of Asian practice to go the country’s main executive," helium wrote. 

CNN senior governmental information newsman Harry Enten said Thursday that determination are "clear" signs of a Harris win. 

"And the number-one motion is that Harris, simply put, is much fashionable than Donald Trump," helium said. 

Democratic statesmanlike nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris sits with erstwhile U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for a municipality hallway astatine the Royal Oak Music Theatre connected October 21, 2024, successful Royal Oak, Michigan. Cheney joined Vice President Harris for stops Monday successful Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.  (Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images)

The Trump run and its allies person meantime remained steadfast that the Republican summons volition beryllium victorious connected Tuesday, arsenic Trump rallies his basal to ballot aboriginal and attracts caller supporters done his "make America large again" pleddge pursuing the Biden-Harris administration. As the rhythm entered its last weeks, Trump said during a Las Vegas rally past period that the Harris run is "imploding" and has a triumph successful his sights. 

"[Harris is] really imploding, if you instrumentality a look. Because, look, I'm not expected to accidental it, but we are starring by truthful much," Trump said past Thursday. 

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"Now, we're starring by a batch successful Nevada. We're starring by a batch successful Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Even states that are typically ne'er successful play for 50, 60, 70 years. . . . But the information is that states, different states too, large states, are each successful play and they similar us. But you cognize what? They deliberation she is grossly incompetent. Let's look it, she is not doing well," Trump continued. 

Former US First Lady Melania Trump applauds her hubby erstwhile US President and Republican statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump aft helium spoke astatine a run rally astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York, October 27, 2024. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Getty Images)

The 45th president added during his Madison Square Garden rally that helium volition person the "biggest triumph successful the past of our country" connected Election Day. 

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"We're moving against thing acold bigger than Joe oregon Kamala. And acold much almighty than them, which is simply a massive, vicious, crooked, extremist near instrumentality that runs today's Democrat Party. They're conscionable vessels. In fact, they're cleanable vessels, due to the fact that they'll ne'er springiness them a hard time. They'll bash immoderate they want. I cognize galore of them. It's conscionable this amorphous radical of people. But they're smart, and they're vicious, and we person to decision them," helium said.

"We're going to person the biggest triumph successful the past of our state connected Nov. 5, and it's going to beryllium the biggest triumph successful history. We're going to marque America large again."

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