Kamala Harris ends poll bleeding among Democrats as ‘weird’ Vance attacks start to stick

The efforts to paint JD Vance and former President Donald Trumpas “weird” appear to be paying off.

Kamala Harris entered her second week as a presidential candidate on Monday, and a slew of new polling indicates that her “honeymoon” period is not coming to an end just yet.

With the formerly-Biden, now-Harris campaign pushing out a new memo to reporters detailing the strength of the vice president’s candidacy as the week began, all the signs indicate that momentum is clearly shifting in the US presidential race. The campaign woke up on Monday morning to a pair of new polls from ABC News and theWall Street Journal indicating what many had suspected for days: Kamala Harris has now completed a virtual reset of the presidential race’s dynamic, erasing months of bleeding suffered by the campaign when Joe Biden was at the top.

In the national Journal poll, Harris trails Trump within the margin of error, a reversal of a gap that was threatening to reach double digits just 28 days ago, when the paper’s last survey data came out. Trump sits at 49 per cent in the poll, enjoying a slight bump in the wake of the first wounding of a president in an assassination attempt since the 1980s, while Harris now trails close behind at 47 per cent.

And better news for the Harris campaign was found in ABC’s survey data: the rhetoric labelling JD Vance “weird” and misogynistic is working in the wake of unearthed video in which Vance berates childless Americans and argues they should have less of a say at the ballot box. The Ohio senator’s negative poll numbers are rising in the wake of the Republican National Convention this month where he was nominated to be Trump’s running mate, and has jumped eight percentage points in just the past week in