Trump-sized crowds and battleground wins: Harris is now a big problem for Republicans
The IndependentSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It’s hard to even describe the excitement, the energy, momentum, and what we’ve solved over the last week,” Florida Democratic Party chair Nikki Fried told The Independent as Harris moved through her second week campaigning for the presidency. We’re hearing from Republicans saying: ‘Maybe this is the final straw that’s going to break the MAGA base and wipe them out for this election cycle, and finally return the Republican Party back to some sense of normality’.” Kamala Harris, alongside New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, in a visit to Florida in 2019. Gary Peters, a senator from Michigan who chairs the Democrats’ campaign arm in the upper chamber, told The Independent this week that he was seeing the same dynamic play out in his state, where Joe Biden was once trailing Trump according to polls that have now shown Harris taking a lead. Kamala Harris rallies a fired-up crowd of 10,000 in Georgia, a state which went blue in 2020 and cost Donald Trump the election “The amount of enthusiasm on the ground for her campaign is something I haven’t seen.