Harris and Trump brace for final sprint in 'snap election'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Trump, in a Truth Social post earlier in the week, wrote, perhaps hopefully, that he would be "great for women and their reproductive rights."
62% : Seemingly aware of his commitments to anti-abortion activists and that his past statements and actions are increasingly a political liability, he made several conflicting comments last week, suggesting that he might vote for a Florida ballot measure that would enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution before stating that he wouldn't.
59% : Unlike Biden or Trump -- one president and one former president, and both fixtures in politics for years -- Harris' candidacy is so new that a quick introduction, followed by comparatively minimal vetting by the electorate, may benefit her.
54% : Trump in recent weeks has appeared on a number of podcasts that are popular among men, including ones hosted by Logan Paul, Theo Von and the Nelk Boys.
53% : According to a Quinnipiac University survey released last week, Trump is leading Harris among men, 57 percent to 39 percent.
51% : Trump, who featured Hulk Hogan at the Republican convention in July, hopes to offset that with an aggressive effort to build up support among young men.
47% : "I still think Trump is the slight favorite here, but things have changed," the GOP strategist said.
45% : The clearest evidence of that was a Gallup poll last week that showed Democrats with a 14-point edge on which party's voters were more enthusiastic about voting -- a major shift from the organization's March survey showing Republicans with a 4-point advantage in what was then a contest between two unpopular candidates in Biden and Trump.
42% : They have argued that if Trump can win North Carolina, which he won in 2016 and 2020, and pick off Pennsylvania and one other state that Biden won four years ago, he will cross the 270 electoral vote threshold.
42% : While Trump has sought to distance himself from the policy template, this spot -- which is also airing in Trump's home market of Palm Beach, Florida, in a playful jab at the GOP nominee -- highlights the former president's own comments about exacting revenge on his enemies should he win the White House again.
40% : Eight years after Trump won the White House, he has remade the GOP in his image, turning the Republican National Committee into a family-run subsidiary after quashing most of the Republican resistance to his "MAGA" movement, at least among elected officials.
37% : So far, she has succeeded in making herself, an incumbent vice president, as much of a change candidate as Trump, who has struggled to adapt to his new opponent.
35% : The first ad will focus on immigration, an issue that Trump has made a centerpiece of his campaign.
31% : That issue, which helped Democrats avoid the typical midterm wipeout later that year and has galvanized women to defeat additional restrictions on abortion rights even in red states like Kansas, appears to be a major liability for Trump -- one he looked to neutralize last week with a surprising announcement that, if elected, he would make IVF procedures free for everyone.
26% : The debate, he said, "may be one of the few opportunities that [Trump] can put her on defense."
21% : Her recent swings through Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia underscored the sudden competitiveness of states that Trump, when he was opposing Biden, appeared to have locked up.
20% : Now, when Trump goes out there and campaigns and does interviews, it's questionable how helpful it is.
20% : But on abortion, Trump has tried in recent days to muddy the waters.
17% : It's unclear if that will help Trump close the ballooning gender gap in the race, with polls showing Trump losing even more ground with women voters now that Harris is the Democratic nominee.
13% : Contrasting Harris' agenda with Project 2025 -- the Heritage Foundation's controversial blueprint for the next Republican administration from which Trump has sought to distance himself -- galvanizing voters around Harris' call to restore reproductive freedoms and leaning on a larger army of ground troops, Dillon asserted, could be difference-makers come November.
10% : Trump, who has yet to find an attack on Harris that sticks, enters next week's head-to-head debate in a far less comfortable position than when he left the stage after pummeling Biden on June 27.

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