Swing-state score­card: Rank­ing Kamala Harris’s tough­est 2024 bat­tle­grounds

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Harris’s emer­gence as the pre­sump­tive Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee against for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has tur­bocharged a race that once looked pre­des­tined for the GOP. 
Har­ris is clos­ing in on Trump in sev­er­al nation­al polls, where the for­mer pres­i­dent used to lead Pres­i­dent Joe Biden by five to six per­cent­age points before Biden exit­ed the 2024 race. 
In the two weeks since Har­ris con­sol­i­dat­ed the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty behind her pres­i­den­tial cam­paign, she has bro­ken fundrais­ing records by rais­ing $310 mil­lion in July and end­ing the month with $377 mil­lion cash on hand. Har­ris far out­raised Trump, who brought in $138.7 mil­lion and end­ed the month with $327 cash on hand. 
Before Har­ris announces her run­ning mate deci­sion next week, the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er ranked the bat­tle­ground states accord­ing to which would be the hard­est for the vice pres­i­dent to win.
1. Penn­syl­va­nia

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris vis­its William Cramp Ele­men­tary …