With the NYT poll showing Trump ahead, the Pew and Harvard Harris polls showing the race tied is not giving the Harris campaign or Democrats any comfort.
It would seem that the mighty momentum that had been moving so hard in Kamala "joy" Harris's direction has waned a bit as of late. In fact, if Nate Silver is to be believed, the polling has actually moved in Trump's direction since the beginning of the DNC convention. Meaning that if there was a DNC bounce, it no longer exists.
What exists at this point is a need for Harris to do something different than she has been doing. Perhaps this is why we finally are seeing her website being updated with some policy ideals. I say policy ideals, because they are not really policy positions. Simply a suggestion for what she would like to see under her Administration. You know, lower cost of living, higher wages, less crime, better education, safer environment. Just trust her and vote for her as she does have concrete plans somewhere down the line. But you have to elect her to see what she wants to do!
This will put even more pressure on Harris and the debate. She no longer has to simply make it through without crashing and burning. She will need to do well enough to shift the momentum, which has clearly left her camp. That being said, there doesn't seem to be as much confidence in her campaign about her putting up a dominating performance as there is an apparent need to lower expectations and place pre-blame on debate rules and the inability to fact check Trump on the spot for any sort of lackluster performance from her.
I'm starting to come around to the idea that the 0linsky cabal that actually runs the democrat party thinks Harris is an imbecile and is taking a dual view of this election -
She's a fucking imbecile but by some sheer shit luck they can cheat her to victory and she's their puppet going forward.
They anticipate a Trump victory and they can finally run her right the fuck out of the party and can be done with her once and for all.