A month out, Harris and Trump campaigns brace for ‘trench warfare’
Top officials in both campaigns describe it as a grind-it-out race, where movements measured in a few thousand votes could sway the outcome of the entire election.
Washington | As Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump begin the final 30-day push for the White House, they are locked in a neck-and-neck race from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt.
With polling averages showing all seven battleground states nearly tied, many Democrats believe their biggest advantage may be an extensive ground game operation that their party has spent more than a year building across the country. Trump’s campaign thinks that recent events – the escalating conflict in the Middle East and deadly hurricanes that have killed more than 200 people across the south-east – will give it an edge in the final weeks.
