The state of the race in the Sunshine State
As of today, our model gives Kamala Harris a 21 percent chance of winning Florida’s 30 electoral votes. Now, a one-in-five chance isn’t bad, but it isn’t great either. For perspective, this scenario is about as likely as
Harris winning Alaska. So let’s be clear: Harris is the definite underdog here. There are however a few things that make the race more interesting than the 21 percent win probability would imply.
First, the Florida polls have slowly tightened since Harris entered the race. On the day our
Harris-Trump model launched, Trump led by a 7-point margin in the state. Now? He only leads by 3.3 points. Harris has gotten some good individual polls recently too. A
Victory Insights poll had her down by 2 points, and she trailed by 1 point a
Bullfinch Group poll. Are these particularly
high-quality pollsters? No. And she’s had some bad polls too. She trailed by 4 points in this
Public Policy Polling survey — a firm that
typically leans towards Democrats, and the poll was for a partisan client.