Swing-state score­card: Walz addi­tion shifts rank­ings of Harris’s hard­est bat­tle­grounds

Swing-state scorecard: Walz addition shifts rankings of Harris’s hardest battlegrounds

The 2024 pres­i­den­tial race that appeared head­ed for a GOP vic­to­ry has now trans­formed into a dead heat since Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris replaced Pres­i­dent Joe Biden as the Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee late last month.
With the addi­tion Tues­day of Gov. Tim Walz (D‑MN) as Harris’s run­ning mate, the new­ly mint­ed Demo­c­ra­t­ic tick­et is oper­at­ing at full-steam ahead of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion in Chica­go, and polls and donors are shift­ing in its favor.
In less than two weeks, Har­ris raised the record-break­ing $310 mil­lion in July, while the announce­ment of Walz as her vice pres­i­dent net­ted the cam­paign anoth­er $36 mil­lion in 24 hours as the pair jet­ted off on a tour of the cru­cial bat­tle­ground states. But the GOP pounced at any chance to lam­baste the cam­paign.
For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and his vice pres­i­den­tial can­di­date, Sen. J.D. Vance (R‑OH), staged a two-pronged approach against Democ­rats.
Vance also …