The fall campaign has begun in earnest, and the presidential race is still tight, according to swing state polls conducted for The Hill between Aug. 23 and 28. The big question is: Why the race still so close?
In the short time Vice President Harris has been the designated Democratic nominee, she solidified her party’s base, raised a ton of dough and selected a popular running mate. Meanwhile, former President Trump bumbled and stumbled his way through the summer with incoherent campaign rhetoric, a divisive running mate and defections by prominent Republicans. Former Sen. Pat Toomey, from the swing state of Pennsylvania, and former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, are the latest Republicans to express their intentions to not vote for their party’s nominee.
Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), have been crisscrossing battleground states while Trump has hunkered down in Mar-a-Lago.
You would like to think that Democratic energy and enthusiasm would have produced a big blue wave, but it isn't so. The race is still close in the seven swing states on the front lines of the electoral combat zone. Either party can win simply by........