What held Harris back among undecided voters, according to Evan Roth Smith

Following the release of a new Blueprint Poll conducted 48 hours after the Presidential election, Slingshot founding partner and Blueprint lead pollster Evan Roth Smith spoke with Semafor’s David Weigel to discuss where the Democrats’ campaign messaging broke down. 

“These misalignments persisted despite the Harris campaign’s messaging, showing how sweepingly the Republican narrative on Harris’s positions took hold and shaped the lens of these voters. This, in turn, created the impression for too many swing voters that Democrats hold the most extreme possible version of left-of-center positions and would enforce them through policy,” explained Smith. 

Read the full Semafor article here.