One place where Harris is killing it in the polls: Red states

Polls show Vice President Kamala Harris is absolutely killing it in … North Dakota? 

Strange as it is, an average of the two polls taken there in the past 45 days show her doing better there than any Democratic presidential candidate since Barack Obama in 2008 and, before him, Bill Clinton in 1996. 

Of course, “doing better” in North Dakota means she’s still running an average of 18.5 percentage points behind Donald Trump. But President Joe Biden lost the Peace Garden State by over 33 points in 2020 and Hillary Clinton by nearly 36 points in 2016. Still, the sparse polling shows Harris almost halving those margins. 

Stranger yet, North Dakota isn’t alone. Harris’ polling is outperforming Biden’s 2020 election margins in nine other red states, among those with a poll that finished fielding since Sept. 10, as of Friday at 10 AM ET. 

So what the hell is going on?