In her latest piece on Substack, Virginia Heffernan — whose work I’ve been reading for quite a while — says the most recent polls show not only good news for Kamala Harris, but also debunk bunk about Hispanics and Black men supporting Trump. Here’s an excerpt:
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.”
Hispanic voters and Black voters weren’t having it. The idea that any voters of color were significantly pro-Trump was always untrue — but now they’re for Harris in even greater force.
Among Black men, according to the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll, she’s soaring. She’s +74. For contrast, Biden won with +60. So forget the media mumbletank mush about Black men going MAGA.
And even before Trump’s self-immolation in Madison Square Garden, Harris was trouncing him with Hispanic voters—by thirty points, 64%-34%. (Her lead is growing, and fast. In early October, less than a month ago, she was only up twelve points with the same group.)