Vice President Harris and her supporters believe they have the edge in the final hours of the presidential campaign, after several weeks when the campaign felt it was on shaky ground as former President Trump gained momentum.

The Harris camp points to late-deciding voters who have been breaking toward them in the days before the election and a surprise Iowa poll that showed Harris ahead of Trump in a reliably red state.

They also argue their robust ground operation is primed to carry the vice president to victory, and that they will win a huge advantage with female voters.

“Vice President Harris looks to be in a strong position going into Election Day,” said Jamal Simmons, who served as Harris’s communications director until last year. “The data is leaning in her direction and she’s got the gait of a winner."

“People are ready to turn the page on the Trump era,” Simmons added.

Those remarks reflect what dozens of Democrats — from strategists and political operatives to lawmakers — have been feeling since the summer, when Harris rose in polls after she became the nominee.

Since then it’s been an emotional roller coaster for Democrats, who saw Harris surge only to plateau in the final month of the campaign.

Over the last several weeks, Democrats worried that Harris’s economic message hadn’t broken through and that there were cracks in the critical "blue wall" states of Michigan, Wisconsin and........

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