Everytown for Gun Safety will reportedly spend $45 million between now and November to help elect Kamala Harris to the presidency, and “favored candidates” in eight key states for Senate, House and legislative offices.
According to the Washington Post, these expenditures will occur in Arizona, California, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where the money will be used to recruit students at 32 college and university campuses. The report noted, “The group’s leaders said the effort will focus on younger voters, voters of color and suburban women, with new field offices in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan.”
The WaPo article also says billionaire Michael Bloomberg—who backs Everytown—is “one of the biggest donors to Democratic politics.” He donated $19 million to Future Forward, a super PAC backing the Harris campaign.
The Angus Reid Institute in Canada is reporting that Harris’ entry into the race, replacing President Joe Biden, is “energizing the Democratic campaign and entering with a slight overall advantage in vote intent.”
“Currently 44 per cent of American registered voters say they would support her bid,” according to a Reid Institute report, “a two-point edge over Trump. Key at play are racial and generational dynamics.
“The Harris vote is younger and more diverse,” the institute notes, “with a massive advantage among non-white would-be voters (56% to 25%) and those younger than 35 years of age (50% to 32%). For Trump, the white vote is stalwart in his favor, as he generates a 14-point advantage over Harris (51% to 37%). While he trails among 18- to 34-year-olds, and is tied among the 35 to 54 group, he holds an eight-point edge among those 55 years of age and older (49% to 40%).”
Still, Harris’ momentum faces some significant speed bumps. A new Rasmussen survey shows 48 percent of likely voters think Harris’ efforts to control illegal immigration have been “poor,” while she gets supported by 31 percent. Overall, Rasmussen says 62 percent of likely voters “consider the current situation with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border to be a crisis. Twenty-six percent (26%) don’t see it as a crisis, while 12% are not sure.”
The New York Times is reporting how Republicans are weaponizing video clips of Harris past remarks on a number of subjects, including “mandatory buyback” of semiautomatic firearms—the so-called “assault weapons” she and President Joe Biden have been pushing to ban—to remind voters of her extreme positions.
As previously reported by TGM, the anti-gun Giffords group is also planning to spend $15 million to help get Harris and down-ballot Democrats in key states, to advance the gun control agenda.
Rasmussen is reporting Thursday that a two-way match between Harris and GOP nominee Donald Trump shows the former president leading by five points, 49-44 percent, with another 4 percent saying they would vote for another candidate.
“A week ago, Trump led by seven points over Harris, 50% to 43%, in the first survey since President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw his reelection bid,” Rasmussen said.
However, with four other candidates on the ballot including Independent Robert F. Kennedy, Rasmussen says Trump gets 46 percent, Harris gets 45 percent and Kennedy pulls in 5 percent, with the remainder of votes going to other candidates.
