Column: Biden's debate gamble went spectacularly wrong. Now Democrats are in panic mode

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Even when President Biden quit the race Sunday, Trump was leading by only a few points nationwide.
27% : But, he added, those voters don't like Trump and were "looking for an alternative.
27% : Republicans have moved briskly to try to define her, pushing their equation: Black woman from California equals too liberal -- "the same as Biden, but much more radical," as Trump put it to reporters on a call this week.
20% : Biden carried all six swing states in 2020, but even before his disastrous debate with Trump in June, polls suggested he had seemed to fall out of contention in the three battlegrounds in the Southeast and the West, largely because of diminished support among Latino and Black voters.
16% : Gains among Black voters could put Georgia back in play -- at least one public poll released this week showed Harris only 1 point behind Trump in the state, although the small size of the survey made its results questionable.

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