Playbook: Sobering new polls for Harris

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : She wrote that "we head into the final stretch of this race as the clear underdogs" and emphasized Trump's advantages, adding that "Trump has a motivated base of support, with more support and higher favorability than he has had at any point since 2020.
58% : And majestic Coal River Mountain, which inspired the film's title, has been blown apart in the pursuit of long-since extracted coal.
54% : In the Lehigh Valley, he finds voters putting housing at the top of their list -- and intrigued by proposals from both Harris and Trump.
52% : But Cohn, who says "the result is a bit surprising," offers some wise analysis about why the poll may be a leading indicator of "a reversion back toward" Trump:Asked about the poll, the Harris campaign pointed to a Sept. 1 state-of-the-race memo in which campaign chair JEN O'MALLEY DILLON tried to set expectations about how close the race would be.
52% : Trump made a number of other notable vows yesterday at his rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin.
50% : Meanwhile, a new survey of three swing states from CBS News tells the same tale, with Harris and Trump tied in Pennsylvania (50 percent-50 percent), Harris up 1 point in Michigan (50 percent-49 percent) and 2 points in Wisconsin (51 percent-49 percent).
44% : I'm going to be voting with Trump, and I'm going to speak at the convention."--
40% : Politicians need to realign their values."-- NIKKI HALEY on whether she'll campaign for Trump, on CBS' "Face the Nation": "He knows I'm on standby.
35% : "Hillary Clinton Has Advice on Debating Trump: 'He Can Be Rattled,'" by NYT's Reid Epstein ...
31% : KEYS TO THE KEYSTONE: Democrats are worried that Trump could repeat his 2020 inroads with Latino voters in Philadelphia, WSJ's Catherine Lucey reports.
28% : And Trump laid out his plans for radically remaking the federal government, including firing disloyal civil servants, ending the Education Department and involving vaccine conspiracy theorist ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
19% : "Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country," Trump threatened on Truth Social.
18% : In some of his most explicit threats yet to upend the rule of law, Trump yesterday warned that he would jail election officials, lawyers and political operatives involved in so-called election cheating -- hypothetical future crimes based on his own insistent lies about election fraud, AP's Michael Goldberg, Scott Bauer and Jill Colvin report.
12% : The onus is on Trump to show that he's learned how to message effectively against Harris, and not get sidetracked, WaPo's Dan Balz writes.
12% : But the onus is on Harris to hammer Trump on abortion, as NYT's Michael Gold and Nicholas Nehamas report, and learn from her past mistakes -- especially the 2019 debate when TULSI GABBARD attacked her, Holly Otterbein, Chris Cadelago and Elena Schneider report in an interesting piece from Philly.

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