Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is worried that her $1 billion war chest won’t be enough to win the upcoming November election, sources told The Washington Post Wednesday.
Harris’ campaign leadership is worried that the huge haul it acquired in the less than 80 days since the campaign began will not flip certain crucial swing states that are currently within the polling margin of error, sources familiar with Harris’ campaign strategy told The Washington Post. Despite the campaign outspending former President Donald Trump by significant margins, Republicans’ momentum in swing states seems to be increasing amid the deadlocked race.
“Talking about this type of big money doesn’t convey the sense of urgency to do every single thing in all of the big and small ways,” one person involved told The Washington Post. “We are in the margin of error. This will come down to grinding it out.”
Harris received a $126 million influx in only three days when President Joe Biden suspended his campaign in July, according to The Washington Post. Additionally, the campaign, along with other aligned groups, raised $361 million in August.
However, polling has remained too close to call between the two candidates.
Pennsylvania polling shows Trump ahead by only 0.3 points, according to RealClearPolitics (RCP) averages. Trump is also ahead in Georgia with a 0.8-point gap in the RCP average.
Michigan is also tilting slightly towards Trump with a 0.7-point lead, according to RCP averages, even though President Joe Biden won the state in 2020 by just under 3 points, according to official results.
Harris-aligned groups have spent over twice the amount on advertising that Trump-aligned groups have between the Democratic National Convention and Oct. 4, according to The Washington Post. The sources also said they do not see the ad spending as a luxury but a necessity to beat Trump in November.
The economy remains the most important issue among voters, with the greatest share of people labeling it as “extremely important” since October 2008 during the Great Recession, according to Gallup polling released Wednesday. Trump is more trusted on the economy, polling at 54% versus Harris’ 45%.
Additionally, not since 1992 have more Americans identified as Republicans than Democrats in Gallup surveys in the third quarter before the election than in the most recent poll, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“There have never been so many electoral college votes in play so late in the cycle, which means that our strong fundraising and volunteer enthusiasm are not guaranteed to be enough to fully reach voters everywhere they are,” another source told The Washington Post.
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