In a focus group interview of undecided independents conducted by former Republican pollster Sarah Longwell after Tuesday's debate, a decided shift was observed, as she noted on CNN:
"This focus group was a clean sweep for Harris, both in terms of her winning the debate and in terms of vote choice – they were all going to vote for her. She had kind of gotten them over the hump, and the No. 1 word that came up that really struck me was several people organically referred to her performance as presidential, right, and this is the hump she's trying to get over. Do people see her as presidential, somebody ready for the big chair and for these voters – she got them there with this performance. [snip]
I do think there's always there's something about American voters – they want to be courted, right? They want to be told, these late-breaking undecided ones, but what you see is when she turns in a performance like this, at the end of every election, there's a break in independent voters, they break one way or the other, and I think what she's doing doing is chipping away to the point where when it comes time to break, they've seen enough." (our emphasis)
The debate was clearly a watershed for VP Harris in showing the contrast between a petulant, angry and confused Malignant Loser and a positive, composed and articulate woman who knocked him down. It not only solidified her as "presidential," it also reminded people of the sociopathic ugliness of the Malignant Loser. In the days remaining, VP Harris will be engaged in rallies, town halls and other means of "chipping away" until the remaining "undecideds" have seen enough, and will vote for Harris-Walz in November.
