Blue-state Dem dread turns to elation over Harris: 'It's all changed'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : She spoke of strengthening gun regulations and growing the middle class.
46% : And, as she expressed hope that Trump would "reconsider" debating her after his campaign said last week that plans weren't finalized, a man in the crowd cried out: "So do we!" But Harris was clear-eyed, in her words, about the challenge she faces in attempting to stand up a major-party presidential campaign barely 100 days before Election Day against an opponent who has spent the past eight years plotting a second term -- and whose allies are already deploying sexist and racist attacks against her.
45% : In a speech that mirrored those she has delivered at campaign events over the past week since the president dropped out and she became the Democratic front-runner, Harris worked to frame her anticipated face-off against Trump as one between a prosecutor and a felon, between someone with a forward-looking message versus one that focuses on the past, and between someone who would work to expand peoples' rights instead of restricting them -- a nod to her pledge to codify national abortion access (which she will need Congress to accomplish).
12% : " Democratic enthusiasm for Harris is also extending into neighboring New Hampshire, where two surveys taken since Biden exited the race show the vice president ahead of Trump there by 6 percentage points -- outside the margin of error for both polls.
4% : They urged her to remain a positive messenger in the face of Trump and his allies' attacks -- Harris said Saturday that Trump "has been resorting to some wild lies about my record" and that some of what he and running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) are saying "is just plain weird" -- and to keep working to define her candidacy before the other side can.

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