Kamala Harris leans on Dem heavyweights, stages media blitz as polls show her slipping against Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris is hoping famous fellow Democrats and appearances on friendly media outlets will be enough to pull her presidential campaign over the finish line — as a series of polls suggest Republican Donald Trump has the advantage in their race to the White House.On Thursday, the same day that former President Barack Obama, 63, held his first rally for Harris in Pittsburgh, Pa., the campaign announced that another former chief executive, Bill Clinton, 78, will make the case for Harris in Georgia and North Carolina.“The Harris campaign unleashes the Big Dog,” spokesman Ian Sams said in a jubilant tweet that quoted a CNN report about Clinton’s assistance.

“Bill Clinton to hit the rural South for Harris this week, stumping in Georgia and eastern North Carolina, ‘going back to a kind of campaigning that he hasn’t done since before he became the “Comeback Kid.”‘”On the other side of Pennsylvania, seen by many as the state that will determine whether Trump, 78, or Harris, 59, becomes the 47th president, the Democratic campaign is making a “significant” ad buy on Philadelphia hip-hop and R&B-focused stations in an apparent bid to shore up slipping black support, according to local radio host Dan O’Donnell.Not inclined to give Pennsylvanians a break, the Harris team also announced she would participate in an Oct.23 town hall hosted by CNN.After being anointed the Democratic nominee in early August, Harris rode a polling surge to catch and pass Trump both nationally and in battleground states.

But with fewer than four weeks to go until the polls close, the picture has darkened for the veep.The RealClearPolitics polling average has Trump narrowly leading Harris in five of the seven vital states that will decide the election: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.Of those five, only North Carolina went for Trump in 2020.

While Harris is clinging on to her polling average lead in Wisconsin, no survey use...