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Kamala Harris' statesmanlike run expressed optimism astir its way to the presidency this week, telling reporters successful a memo that the alteration atop the summons could assistance the vice president scope a caller harvest of voters arsenic the run plans an assertive attack to cardinal battleground states.
The bonzer and accelerated ascension of Harris to beryllium the presumptive Democratic nominee "opens up persuadable voters," run manager Jennifer O'Malley Dillon wrote.
"The contention is much fluid now. The Vice President is well-known but little well-known than some Trump and President Biden, peculiarly among Dem-leaning constituencies," she added.
O'Malley Dillon said immoderate successful this "expanded beingness of winnable voters were antecedently Democrats and enactment down-ballot Democrats this cycle," a imaginable notation to the information that immoderate polls showed Biden with little enactment than Democrats moving further down the ballot.
The memo outlined a program to capitalize connected Harris' entreaty with Black, Latino and women voters. It besides suggested Harris could pull radical who did not ballot for the Democratic summons successful 2020 but moved toward Democrats successful the years since.
Meanwhile, O'Malley Dillon stressed that the run has "multiple pathways" to 270 electoral votes and plans to "play offense" successful the competitory Blue Wall states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, arsenic good arsenic the Sun Belt states of North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
Since Sunday, Harris has earned the backing of Democratic Party leaders and capable Democratic National Convention delegates to marque her the nominee if they kept existent to their pledges -- a large milestone for the vice president.
The memo comes a time aft the vice president had her archetypal run lawsuit successful battleground Wisconsin connected Tuesday, sharply framing her contention against erstwhile President Donald Trump.
