Elections

Kamala Harris Team Says She’ll Win After Trump’s MSG Fiasco

UNDERDOG NO MORE

Her team expressed confidence ahead of her mega rally near the White House.

Kamala Harris campaigns in Ann Arbor eight days before the election.
Evelyn Hockstein/REUTERS

Kamala Harris’ top strategists are predicting she will win the election with the help of undecided voters turned off by Donald Trump, especially after his controversial Madison Square Garden event. “We’re confident we’re going to win,” campaign co-chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told reporters Tuesday morning. “And it’s not because we’re running away with it. It’s because we’re confident we’re on a path to win a very close election.” She added that the Harris campaign has seen a “growth of support” since Trump’s Sunday rally, where a comedian’s insulting joke about Puerto Rico offended many Latino voters. Campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond also told reporters that the campaign is seeing positive signs in the battlegrounds, “in particular in the blue wall.” Harris plans to present her own “closing argument” at a mega rally at the Ellipse Tuesday evening, where she will contrast Trump’s “enemies list” with her own “to-do list.” She will also acknowledge the frustration and exhaustion Americans are feeling in today’s political climate, laying the blame squarely at Trump’s feet.