Vice President Harris on Friday night told rallygoers in Wisconsin not to pay too much attention to the polls, which paint the presidential race as largely neck-and-neck against former President Trump, while she still considers herself the underdog.
“46 days until the election. And, what we know, this is going to be a tight race until the very end. So, let’s not pay too much attention to the polls because let’s be clear, we are the underdog in this race and we have some hard work ahead of us,” Harris said at a rally in Wisconsin.
Harris has a 3.6 percentage point lead over Trump nationally, according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ aggregate polling. Out of the seven battleground states, Harris has the largest lead in Wisconsin, up on Trump by 2 percentage points.
Nationally, Harris has taken the lead in pollster Nate Silver’s election forecast and model for the first time since Aug. 28, ahead in the polling aggregation with 48.9 percent to Trump’s 46.1 percent.
Harris opened the rally by thanking the local Teamsters organization, Joint Council 39, for its endorsement. While the vice president has received endorsements from local Teamsters unions, the Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien announced this week that it will not make an endorsement in the presidential election.
Harris painted her campaign at the rally as one of unity to appeal to the more than 10,500 people the campaign estimated were in the crowd at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Madison.
“We’re tired of all that division and hate they’re pushing,” she said.
“This is a people-powered campaign. This is a campaign about building community, building coalition, reminding us all that we are all in this together and that we’re gonna be good and alright,” Harris added.
Harris also praised her former colleague in the Senate, Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), who is in a tough race for reelection against Trump ally, businessman Eric Hovde. The Cook Political Report rates that race “lean Democrat.”
