After the polling debacle that was former President Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 over ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, many observers on both sides of the aisle have largely disregarded polling results. “Ignore the polls” has become a rallying cry for the fanbase of whichever candidate happens to end up on the business end of whatever poll was published that day.

As swing-state polls trend increasingly in the former president’s favor, and after Trump has taken his largest lead in the election betting odds since the Democrats replaced President Joe Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket in July, the behavior of the Harris-Walz campaign paints the picture of an operation that believes recent polling and doubts its candidates’ chances on Nov. 5.