Hold the 'blue wall,' or light up the Sun Belt? Harris eyes path through U.S. battlegrounds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : This week, she is expected to pick her running mate -- possibly from one of those states -- and begin holding major rallies in places such as Philadelphia, Detroit, Raleigh, N.C., and Savannah, Ga.Amid the high-stakes number-crunching that campaigns always do to determine their best path to victory, the Harris campaign is citing polls showing her closing the gap with Trump in nearly every battleground, and seeming more bullish than Biden's campaign ever did.
41% : Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said both Harris and Trump appear focused, correctly, on the seven states that were decided by 3 percentage points or less in the last election: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in the blue wall; Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona in the Sun Belt; and Nevada.
38% : In 2020, Biden won six out of the seven, while Trump took North Carolina -- and all of them are up for grabs in 2024, Kondik said.
35% : When President Biden beat Trump in 2020, it was by fewer than 50,000 votes across Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia.
35% : But he also expects Harris, buoyed by new energy and enthusiasm, to invest in driving up turnout in the South, in part to force Trump -- who had been preparing to "run up the scoreboard" on Biden -- back into a defensive posture.
33% : "Alexander, of Bowling Green, said he still believes that Harris has a "tougher path" to winning than Trump due to the nature of the electoral college system -- and he worries 2024 could be another "misfire election," with Trump winning the electoral college despite Harris winning the popular vote.
21% : On Friday, the Harris campaign said that it had $377 million in cash on hand -- compared with $327 million for Trump -- and that it would be spending hard and fast to ramp up the fight.
10% : Clinton, for example, received about 2.9 million more votes than Trump, and still lost.
9% : When Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in 2016, it was by fewer than 80,000 votes across Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania combined.

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