Since being named the presidential nominee of the Democrat Party, Vice President Kamala Harris has had a surge in popularity that her supporters have called “Kamalamentum.”
But many of them are the same people who insisted there was “Joementum” for President Joe Biden as he was cratering in the polls and eventually replaced as the Party’s nominee.
And now it appears the “Kamalamentum” has ground to a halt and the pendulum is starting to swing back towards former President Donald Trump.
As new polls start to be shown, they show the former president gaining ground on the vice president in key battleground states, meaning it is unlikely her debate performance did anything to give her the bump she desired.
A new poll from The New York Times and Sienna College showed the two competitors tied at 47 points nationwide, while the RealCLearPolitics average of polls shows the vice president with a 1.9 percent edge which is where it has been since the start of the month.
In the battleground state of Pennsylvania, the vice president is shown to have a four percentage point lead over the former president at 50 to 46.
But that poll appears to be an outlier as the RealClearPolitics average for Pennsylvania only has the vice president ahead by one percentage point at 48 to 47.
The Hill/Emerson College poll had even better news for the former president as it showed him ahead 50 percent to 47 percent in Georgia, 49 percent to 48 percent in Arizona and Wisconsin, with a tie in Nevada at 48 percent.
Stunningly the Democrat nominee was shown to be ahead of her rival 49 percent to 48 percent in North Carolina and, not as surprisingly, 49 percent to 47 percent in Michigan.
But even if she were to take Nevada in that scenario, the former president would still have the electoral votes needed to secure the presidency in November.
The RealClearPolitics map gives Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada to Harris while North Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona to Trump which would 276 to 262 electoral votes in favor of the vice president, which would hand her the presidency.
One of the country’s most reliable pollsters is pushing back on the Democratic narrative that Vice President Kamala Harris is steamrolling her GOP rival, Donald Trump, noting that according to the most recent data, the former president is doing much better now at this point in the election cycle than his previous White House bids in 2016 and 2020.
In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Thursday, pollster Matt Towery discussed the latest data and proclaimed that while Trump is well ahead of Harris, the left-leaning media and other pollsters will say she’s ahead.
“Explain how these candidates could be tied nationally, but Kamala is up in Pennsylvania? What does that mean?” Ingraham asked to begin the segment.
“Well, you know, let me just say this. The polling gurus and predictors are going to start telling you over the next month and a half that Harris is gaining speed in these various battleground states,” Towery responded. “They’re somehow going to say that she’s gaining speed in the national polls. I’m just going to predict it. They’re going to say that she’s going to win and Trump will lose. It makes no sense.
“People have to understand. Trump is running way ahead of where he has in the last two cycles that he ran in the national average. I mean, she is much closer than either Biden or, before that, Hillary Clinton. And in these various states, now, you know, everybody has their different way of sampling things. I think all of these states are very tight,” he continued.
“But I don’t think there’s any state where anyone has a four or five-point lead right now that’s a battleground state. I just don’t see it, and I don’t believe it,” Towery said.
