this was immediately obvious, as fallout.

biden is a known quantity, but harris is largely undefined, and it's going to be very hard for her to define herself in a pandemic, when everybody's communicating over the interwebs. it's a major advantage for the republicans, especially given the little bit of time that she had to define herself did not work in her favour at all.

these numbers should be scaring the biden campaign, who should be looking at the situation as a crises point. they need these states to win...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/16/politics/cnn-poll-biden-trump-august/index.html