Magic + Loss

Magic + Loss

Bunk, Debunked

No, Kamala Harris is not losing Black and Hispanic men. No, Trump is not winning suburban women. And more good news.

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Virginia Heffernan
Oct 28, 2024
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Topline: Five recent major polls have Harris ahead nationwide.

She’s beating Trump by 6 points in the latest Big Village poll, 5 points in the latest CCES/YouGov poll, 4 points in the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll, 4 points in the latest Tufts University poll, and 3 points in the latest Economist/YouGov poll.

Meanwhile, at Madison Square Garden Sunday, Trump resurrected the spluttering, bloodthirsty rhetoric of February 1939, when American Nazis rallied at the Garden under a portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas.

Fascist spectacle—the cartoonish aesthetics of power associated with Mussolini—was everywhere at the Garden last night. As was racism. CNN cited the event for “blistering anti-migrant rhetoric” and “the most flagrant demagoguery by a major figure in any Western nation since World War II.”

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