WILL EARLY VOTING BACKFIRE ON DEMOCRATS? Many Democrats are giddy about the last few days of the presidential campaign. For two reasons. First, they believe Vice President Kamala Harris finished up a “near-flawless campaign under the utmost pressure,” in the words of former Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer. And second, they think former President Donald Trump blew a lead in the last minutes of the game. Trump “finished his final full week on the campaign trail … with a set of grievance-fueled attacks that set off a firestorm among his critics,” Politico wrote.

Specifically, Trump’s big mistakes, according to this analysis and others like it, were his Oct. 27 “hate” rally at Madison Square Garden, his statement on Oct. 30 that he will protect women “whether the women like it or not,” and his Oct. 31 “firing squad” statement about former Rep. Liz Cheney.