I was waiting outside the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, North Carolina after Vice President Kamala Harris’s rally when my phone started to blow up. Ann Selzer, the vaunted pollster of Iowa, had just dropped a poll showing that Harris was leading Trump by three points in the Hawkeye State — a state Trump had won twice.

A voter in North Carolina claimed he made a last-minute vote for Vice President Kamala Harris due to his girlfriend threatening to break up with him, later revealing that he was lying. CNN was interviewing voters who had just finished voting in the swing state when they interviewed a man named Bryan Flores,