Trump campaign pollster forecasts 'Harris Honeymoon' showing VP gaining steam

Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio on Tuesday indicated that he expected polling data to show Vice President Kamala Harris gaining ground on former President Donald Trump as media coverage of her candidacy increased, calling such a development the "Harris Honeymoon."

"As I’ve explained, the honeymoon will be a manifestation of the wall-to-wall coverage Harris receives from the MSM," he said in a statement. "The coverage will be largely positive and will certainly energize Democrats and some other parts of their coalition at least in the short term. That means we will start to see public polling – particularly national public polls – where Harris is gaining on or even leading President Trump."

Trump currently leads Harris by 1.9% in the RealClearPolitics polling average, earning 48.5% support to the vice president's 46.6%.

Fabrizio acknowledged that President Joe Biden's decision to not seek reelection and Harris's emergence as the likely nominee placed pollsters in "uncharted territory" and indicated he expected to see Harris receive a polling bump "over the next few days."

"The Democrats and the MSM will try and tout these polls as proof that the race has changed. But the fundamentals of the race stay the same," he insisted. "The Democrats deposing one Nominee for another does NOT change voters discontent over the economy, inflation, crime, the open border, housing costs not to mention concern over two foreign wars."

Harris has not yet become the Democratic nominee, though he has received the endorsement of nearly every major party leader, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Trump, for his part, received the Republican nomination last week, in the wake of an assassination attempt that saw him shot in the right ear.