Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party got blindsided.
The Left watched as Kamala’s political fortunes took a nosedive.
And Donald Trump took the lead in one poll that is bad news for Kamala Harris.
NBC poll shows Trump moving into the lead
NBC News revealed that their most recent poll showed the five-point lead Kamala Harris held over Donald Trump disappearing.
Trump surged into a one-point lead over Kamala Harris on the full ballot test.
🇺🇲 NATIONAL POLL: @NBCNews
2-WAY
🟥 Trump: 48% [+4] 🟦 Harris: 48% [-1]FULL FIELD
🟥 Trump: 47% [+6] 🟦 Harris: 46% [-1] 🟨 RFK Jr: 2%
🟩 Stein: 1%
🟪 Oliver: 1%
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Generic Ballot
🟦 DEM: 47% [-1] 🟥 GOP: 47% [+1] [+/- change vs 9/13-17] ——
October 4-8 | 1,000 RV | ±3.1%… pic.twitter.com/dbtslWxSFP— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) October 13, 2024
This represented a stark reversal of fortune for Kamala Harris from NBC’s post-debate poll taken in mid-September.
NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker and data analyst Steve Kornacki couldn’t believe the sudden shift of the race away from Kamala Harris.
“Boy, this is a big one!” Welker stated.
“Yeah, Kristen, the numbers say it,” Kornacki added. “It is a tie game here weeks before the election.”
Kornacki lamented that Kamala Harris’ post-debate surge faded as quickly as it came.
“That advantage has all in the last few weeks in our poll washed away for her,” Kornacki added.
Kornacki told viewers that the historic gender gap, Kamala Harris trailed Trump with male voters by 16 points powered Trump’s surge.
“If that happens on Election Day, that’s one for the history books,” Kornacki continued. “We’ve never seen it that high.”
The Democrats’ chickens are coming home to roost.
Years of demonizing men for “toxic masculinity,” promoting abortion-on-demand, setting up kangaroo courts on college campuses to persecute men as potential rapists, and corporate HR diversity, equity, and inclusion programs let men know they weren’t a welcome addition to the Democrat Party coalition.
An explanation for Trump making up ground
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York offered a theory for Trump roaring back into the lead.
York argued that with the Biden-Kamala Harris administration being historically unpopular and fewer than 30 percent of Americans thinking the country is on the right track, the default state of the race is Trump holding a narrow lead.
But Kamala Harris experienced three separate “sugar high” bounces – replacing Joe Biden, the convention, and the debate – that presented an unsustainable lead for Kamala that was always destined to fade.
“The normal resting state of the race is for Trump to be a little ahead. But Harris has enjoyed three big bumps since becoming the Democratic candidate, and each of them has made the race trend her way before fading. The first bump, and biggest by far, was when Biden pulled out of the race. The second, and second biggest, was the Democratic convention. And the third was the Sept. 10 debate between Harris and Trump,” York wrote.
The current polling data supports York’s thesis as the state-level polling is also moving in Trump’s direction.
