"You don't take those states for granted. And she's not," said Joel Benenson, a Democratic pollster. He previously served as chief strategist for Clinton, whose campaign was so overconfident that it stopped conducting its own polls in Midwest battlegrounds as the election approached.
"We've got a painful lesson in 2016 when we didn't go to the 'blue wall' states, and we lost," Benenson said.
Harris' campaign emphasized that she's not giving up on Sun Belt battlegrounds like North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
A loss anywhere in the 'blue wall', a name that reflects the region's traditional Democratic leaning, could doom Harris' path to the presidency.
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