The polls look good for Harris — and the Trump campaign just told on itself

A series of new polls shows that Vice President Kamala Harris has either a slight lead in swing states or has closed the gap in others.

A USA Today/Suffolk University poll out on Thursday shows Harris with a five-point lead aganst Donald Trump, an eight-point turnaround from a June survey that showed President Joe Biden trailing. Specifically, she saw huge shifts to the point that she now has an impressive 23-point lead with people who earn $20,000 or less. Trump previously had a three-point lead in that demographic.

Of course, national surveys mean little, given the Electoral College. But Harris has shown vast improvement in numerous battleground states.

Polls from Fox News also show Harris has a one-point lead in Arizona; a two-point lead in Georgia and Nevada; and trails Trump by only one point in North Carolina. Earlier surveys when he was still top of the Democratic ticket had shown Joe Biden falling away in each of these states.

Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, are currently doing a swing through rural Georgia and she recently held her first major rally in Atlanta. She made a swing through Arizona and Nevada shortly after announcing Walz as her running mate. She made her first big speech about the economy and housing in North Carolina, where the state’s gubernatorial race might give her a lift. In other words, the Harris campaign has been focused on the swing states in a big way.

If Harris were to only win these four states, she would not need to win Pennsylvania, Wisconsin or Michigan — though the chances are that if she won these four, she would likely win at least one or more of the midwestern states.

Emerson College released a survey that is slightly less rosy than the others, but it does show Harris