# How can Donald Trump win at this point? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump, kamala-harris\ **Created:** [August 6, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-donald-trump-win-at-this-point/1005351 "2024-08-06T21:13:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2701
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-donald-trump-win-at-this-point/1005351/2701 "2024-10-10T18:07:52Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > **Trump hasn’t been able to gain new voters since Harris took over.** His campaign has been terrible. His public performances have been execrable and embarrassing. _(my emphasis)_ Specific to the bolded … I just posted **[Simon Rosenberg’s recent take](https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-very-good-week-for-harris-walz)** on the Harris campaign’s various advantages over Trump’s: > [@Polling is broken, right? Or is it the news? Or all of the US?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-is-broken-right-or-is-it-the-news-or-all-of-the-us/993779/443): > > “All” might fairly called an exaggeration (though I cop to saying “all non-polling data …” myself). Still … I think it’s instructive to view all this from the point of view of one of the bigger liberal voices putting out 2024 election content: [yep, good ol’ Simon Rosenberg](https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-very-good-week-for-harris-walz), who will never, ever concede a nanometer of ground to Republican pundits. I’ll convert his paragraphs into a numbered list so that it’s easier to address individual items. From yesterday’s Hopium Chronicles: Here’s the di… For anyone reading this thread wondering how anyone can get to a headspace in which Harris looks significantly more likely than not to win the election … read through Rosenberg’s points and consider what outcome someone who accepts all of those points uncritically would expect from the general election. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-donald-trump-win-at-this-point/1005351)._