We can beat Trump without Pennsylvania

Top Democratic campaign officials said Monday that Kamala Harris has “multiple paths” to winning the presidency.

“We don't have to pick, we just have a lot of options,” Harris campaign chairwoman Jen O'Malley Dillon told reporters during a video call.

O'Malley Dillon said that “we feel good about Pennsylvania” but that a Harris win isn't necessarily dependent on winning the Keystone State. Still, the vice president is spending the entire day before Election Day in the battleground state, where 75 percent of the state's voters will cast their ballots in person on Tuesday.

The campaign is seeing signs of optimism in the other two blue wall states, Wisconsin and Michigan, she said. And she said Democrats are equally optimistic about winning the Sun Belt swing states.

“We like what we see in Georgia,” O'Malley Dillon said, adding that Harris is “on track to win a very close race” in the Peach State. “We firmly believe we have multiple paths to getting to 270 electoral votes,” she said.

Many campaigns at this point in a presidential campaign will end up suspending operations in some states where the race no longer appears viable. But the Harris campaign failed to do so in any of the seven battleground states where the election will be decided.

“We believe we're built to win every single one of them,” O'Malley Dillon said.

Democratic officials acknowledged the reality: Harris and her Republican opponent Donald Trump are in a dead heat in every campaign state, with razor-thin margins between them.

“We believe this race is going to be incredibly close,” said Harris-Walz campaign senior adviser and outside counsel Dana Remus. And she added: “We may not know the results of this election for several days.”

The Harris campaign has regained momentum in the final weeks of the campaign after being on the rocks for a while as polls fell and the excitement that fueled her early entry into the race in late July faded. But the Trump campaign has helped boost its hopes with a series of last-minute blunders, including the fallout from the former president's rally at Madison Square Garden.

The Trump campaign has already launched a series of legal actions to challenge the election results before counting has even begun. But Democrats say they're not too worried.

“They know they can't win at the ballot box because their candidate can't win the votes,” Remus said.

The reality is that the 2024 election will be “more secure than ever” because of safeguards put in place by the bipartisan Electoral Counting Reform Act of 2022, Remus said, which will make it “much more difficult” for Trump supporters to win the Jan. 6 election to use Congress’s certification process to “steal an election.”

“We will not allow Trump to denigrate the election or our institutions with his constant attempts to create chaos and doubt,” Remus said.