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New polling showing Democrats defending their U.S. Senate seats in battleground states taking commanding leads is evidence that Vice President Kamala Harris presidential bid has been a boon for her party.

That is the opinion of Democratic pollster Fernand Amandi, who appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday to explain the impact Harris has had in the few weeks since she replaced President Joe Biden at the top of the 2024 ticket.

After sharing polling data from the Cook Political Report showing Senate Democrats in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin seeing their leads jump up an additional 4 to 11 percent, co-host Mika Brzezinski was told by a laughing Amandi, "Well, Mika, it looks like, by all accounts, Christmas has come in August for the Democrats."

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"These are extraordinary polls with remarkable movement and absolutely it can be attributed to the new energy, the new momentum that has come in the direct aftermath of the change of the ticket now with Kamala Harris on top for Democrats," he explained. "This is a game changer, Mika, because what it also does is it changes completely the dynamics of the race."

"With polls like this, with these leads outside the margin of error as you touched on, it now means that money gushers of fundraising support are going to flow into these states as these races now look more solid for Democrats," he added.

"Then there's the extrapolatory effect of that helping the presidential campaigns there" he continued. "So if you are the Republicans right now, you are extraordinarily worried because A) now it looks like you may not be able to flip the Senate and B) if this is happening in these battleground states it looks like the path to 270 [electoral votes] is getting wider and stronger and clearer for Kamala Harris."

"That's really good news for Democrats, obviously doomsday for Republicans," he added.

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