Like President Joe Biden before her, Vice President Kamala Harris‘s map back to the White House is poised to go through Pennsylvania.
While proper polling of Harris’s prospects against former President Donald Trump this November is only days old, the battleground state data, instead of her fundraising numbers and social media memes, underscore how Trump maintains an advantage.
The likelihood that Democrats will win the White House in three months improved “significantly” this week when Harris replaced Biden as the party’s 2024 presumptive nominee, but Republicans “have more room for error,” according to University of Wisconsin-Madison Elections Research Center director Barry Burden.
“Before Biden’s departure, Democrats were clinging to the three ‘blue wall’ states in the Midwest as their mostly likely and maybe only swing state path to victory,” Burden told the Washington Examiner. “Although Trump lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote in 2020, he is still advantaged. He only needs to flip two or three of the states that Biden took from him four years ago to be victorious again.”
In a memo this week, Harris campaign Chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon, who served Biden in the same capacity, contended Harris remained in a “tight race” with Trump despite Democratic enthusiasm.
“We continue to focus on the blue wall states of Mi …