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Vice President Kamala Harris is winning among recently decided battleground voters by "double digit margins," according to the campaign.
Washington Post reporter Matt Viser and Bloomberg reporter Josh Wingrove posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, that the Vice President's campaign officials said their data shows the Democratic nominee winning among those battleground state voters "who've made up their mind the past week." Both journalists were retweeted by Harris' campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika.
"The Harris campaign's data show that battleground voters who've made up their mind in the past week are breaking by double digit margins to Harris over Trump, per a Harris campaign official today, speaking to reporters," Wingrove posted. "The official said they feel very good about the trajectory."
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This cycle, the winner will need to carry some or all of the following seven states: Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
According to the latest set of Marist polls, conducted between October 27 and 30, Harris is leading Trump in the "blue wall" states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
For Trump to win the election, he needs to flip one of those three "blue wall" states from Harris. That is because if Harris manages to hold on to these three states that President Joe Biden won in 2020, plus get the highly likely single Electoral College vote from Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, then she will receive exactly 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the election.
Undecided voters may be the deciding factor of such a close election between Harris and Trump, and Thomas Gift, an associate professor of political science at the UCL School of Public Policy, told Newsweek Harris' campaign could be banking on them.
"Ultimately, the election will be determined as much by which coalitions turn out to cast their ballot as by last-minute shifts among a shrinking pool of undecided voters," Gift told Newsweek.
The latest Angus Reid poll, conducted between October 23 and 27 showed that only 3 percent of voters are still undecided nationally.
Viser added to his post that the Harris campaign "clearly views" former President Donald Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden last week as a "turning point among late-breaking undecided voters, in ways that's giving them confidence in the final days."
Comedian Tony Hinchliffe opened at Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden and during his monologue called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage."
The Republican nominee responded to Hinchcliffe's Puerto Rico remarks on Tuesday, according to ABC. Trump distanced himself from the comedian but did not denounce the comments made.
"I don't know him, someone put him up there. I don't know who he is," Trump said.
When asked about the comments and his work to gain back Puerto Rican voters, Trump's campaign deputy Hispanic communications director, Viana Rodriguez, told Newsweek about Harris' alleged "lack of urgency" to find missing children and fix Puerto Rico's infrastructure as well as Trump's plans to cut taxes and "stop the surge of illegal immigrants at the southern border."
Gustavo Torres, the executive director of CASA the largest Latino and immigrant organization in the mid-Atlantic, told Newsweek in a press call on October 29 that Trump needs to apologize and the Puerto Rican and Latino communities are "never going to forget what he did."
"I believe that was the October surprise for the Latino community," Torres said. "We are going to communicate that every day now until November 5 to our members."
Harris' campaign also believes the statements are helping their new big undecided voter break, according to Viser.
"It really broke through," a senior campaign official said. "It's helped gel their feeling about this race."
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