When Stephen Colbert, late night live this week, opened his monologue Tuesday announcing the respected Cook Political Report has now listed Kamala Harris as the “Betting Favorite” to beat Donald Trump, the audience in the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan went berserk with noisy glee.

     Indeed, the Cook Reports’ Swing State Project is now reporting that its polling shows Harris is ahead in five key swing states (Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) and tied in Georgia. Among “battleground states,” only in Nevada is Trump still ahead, but even there he has lost a huge margin. This new reality has come in such a short time span, and there’s nothing to indicate the trend may fade or go the other way.

     In this new reality, the Harris-Walz team is still just getting started, while the tired, mentally impaired Trump is only losing support as he goes around talking now. There is nothing in all his rambling that would grow his electoral base. On the contrary. Those who want to see him win are more and more relying on ways to mess with the outcome in November as their only hope.