Democratic convention energy, Harris hot streak making Republicans nervous

The energy emerging from the Democratic National Convention and Vice President Harris’s hot streak is making Republicans increasingly nervous.

Former President Trump and Republicans, meanwhile, are grappling with the whiplash of going from the predictions of a landslide just a few short weeks ago to surveys showing Harris has shaken up races up and down the ballot and closed the gap with Trump.

Democrats’ four-day gathering in Chicago prompted comparisons to the energy around former President Obama’s landmark 2008 presidential bid. It could also hand Harris another slight polling bump as the calendar turns to September after she closed out the convention with a fiery speech heavy on biography and history that also took the fight to Trump.

Despite Harris’s upswing in the polls, however, Republicans remain confident in their chances of winning back the Senate. In addition to flipping Sen. Joe Manchin’s (I) seat in deep red West Virginia, they only need to turn one seat in order to nab the majority, with all eyes on Montana.

While Republicans expect Democrats and Harris to get a boost out of this week, they remain hopeful that the surge will not last beyond Labor Day and that the race will reset itself to become a dead heat until November.