We have 63 days until the election and the general campaign is starting out effectively tied. The Harris campaign is approaching the election as underdogs despite all the enthusiasm we’ve seen which is definitely the right move.
Technically, winning requires 270 electrical votes but with the moves in Georgia to make it easier for Republicans there to throw their state to Trump even if he loses, Harris needs to plan on getting 270 votes out of 522 instead of 270 out of 538. Additionally we know that Trump will do anything to challenge the results of any close state so Harris must aim for a buffer larger than any one close state she wins so it will be important to have a path to 289 (Pennsylvania, with 19, is the largest of the states likely to be close).
Finally, the goal of this election shouldn’t be simply to win – it should be to win so convincingly that the GOP must either refute the authoritarian, divisive, and anti-constitutional tactics and rhetoric of Trumpism or outright implode. In other words, running up the score is to be highly encouraged for the good of our nation.
- I don’t want a 306-232 outcome like we had in 2020. I want a 356-182 wipeout. (Flipping the two narrowest Trump wins from 2020 would give us 349-189.)
- I want a 20 million vote margin of victory in the popular vote since 7 million wasn’t enough to deter Trump or those around him.
- I want Trump to receive fewer views than he did in 2020 to make it absolutely clear that his actions from 2020 on have turned voters away from him. (That can happen without a 20 million vote margin but a 20 million vote margin can’t happen without Trump getting a lower total than before.)
Yes, my wishes are beyond ambitious but this isn’t simply about who wins the White House, it’s about America coming out of the daze that brought us Trump and the further daze that Trump brought us in the last 8 years.
@david @KamalaHarrisWin 270 electrical votes? Shocking!