Despite surges in polling, fundraising and volunteers, Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign chair insisted in a memo out Sunday morning that the Democratic candidate remains a “clear” underdog as the 2024 presidential campaign enters its final stages.
Since swapping out President Joe Biden for Harris in July, Democrats have reignited their hopes of defeating former President Donald Trump. However, in a clear effort to ward off complacency among still-jubilant members of the party, campaign chair Jennifer O’Malley Dillon said the campaign will need to hammer home a message focused on linking Trump to an unpopular conservative policy manifesto and exploit their advantages in the ground game to win.
“Make no mistake: we head into the final stretch of this race as the clear underdogs,” O’Malley Dillon wrote in the memo. “Donald Trump has a motivated base of support, with more support and higher favorability than he has had at any point since 2020.”
“In 2020, the…