Confident Harris campaign chair: ‘We are on track to win’

With just one more week to go before Election Day, the Harris campaign is confident the vice president will clinch a victory for the White House.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, chair of the Harris-Walz campaign, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday that she believes Vice President Harris is on the right path to winning next week’s election. She said that Harris’s closing speech, set to be delivered on Washington, D.C.’s Ellipse on Tuesday, will be essential in reaching those undecided voters before Election Day.
“We feel very good about where we are. As you say, we’re one week out, and we’re closing this election strong. It is OK to be anxious and nervous, because you understand what the stakes are, and we understand that too. But as we look at the race, we know that this is a margin of error race. It’s been very stable and very close for the entire fall,” she told co-host Willie Geist.
“We are on track to win this very close race,” she added.
The race for the White House has been neck-and-neck in recent weeks. Many national polls show a tied race while many swing state polls show a close race in the seven battleground states.
O’Malley Dillon said that all seven battleground states are in play for Harris and said the campaign has seen positive signs from early voting so far.
“And you know, at this time in a campaign, sometimes you’re looking at the map and the pathway to 270 electoral votes, which we’re obviously very focused on. And maybe you say, Oh, this state isn’t in play, or that state isn’t in play. Every one of our seven battleground states are that close. They are all in play,” she said.
“And we feel very good about what we’re seeing in early vote. And that is, you know, our voters turning out to vote, people that are lower propensity voters. They don’t always vote. We’re seeing on our side, supporters for the vice president turning out in higher numbers, exactly as we’d like to see to win a close race,” she continued.
She also said that undecided voters are “more open” to backing Harris over former President Donald Trump.
“And from our own research, those undecided voters are more open to supporting the Vice President, and that’s why the speech today is so important, and it’s so important that we continue to tell the story, and the choice in front of the American people as we close this out and hopefully, we are the last people, they hear before they go vote whether it’s from the Vice President’s speech or amazing organization, and volunteers all across the country,” she added.
One week out from Election Day, Harris’ address from the grassy Ellipse near the White House is designed to encourage Americans to visualize their alternate futures if she or Trump takes over the Oval Office in less than three months.
She hoped to sharpen that contrast by delivering her capstone speech from the place where Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, spewed falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election that inspired a crowd to march to the Capitol and try unsuccessfully to halt the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory and the sealing of his own defeat.
With time running out and the race razor-tight, Harris and Trump both have been looking for big moments to try to shift the momentum one way or the other. But after her speech in the nation’s capital, Harris will be back to furiously scouring for votes one rally and one event after another in the battleground states.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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