Kamala Harris’ go-to pollster, David Binder, is dismissing the narrative that Donald Trump holds all the momentum as the campaign enters its final week. Binder, who has been a key figure in every one of Harris’ political endeavors, recommends a strategic approach for her messaging.

Binder’s counsel to Harris is straightforward: she should deliver a twin-pronged message. One part should target Trump, painting him as a global threat, while the other outlines how her administration would alleviate financial burdens for the middle class. “From my perspective, it has to be both,” Binder expressed during an episode of Pod Save America aired on Sunday. “You can’t choose one at the expense of the other.”

With just days remaining before Election Day, Binder views the contest as evenly matched. Since Harris announced her candidacy in July, the polls have shifted slightly in both directions, but the overall data indicates a race too tight to predict.

Binder’s experience is extensive, having been involved with the Obama campaigns. However, his relationship with Harris dates back to before her successful 2003 campaign for San Francisco district attorney, a victory Binder played a role in securing.

It had edged marginally one way and then the other since Harris entered the race in July, but the overall numbers suggested it remained too close to call. 

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Binder worked for the Obama campaigns but has known Harris since before her first run for San Francisco district attorney, when he helped her to victory in 2003.

That makes him a key part of her team. 

This time around he is leading the opinion research operation.

He said different groups of voters need to hear a positive Harris message, while others need to hear a negative Trump message.

‘Do voters need to hear more about Kamala Harris’s positive policy prescriptions that are going to help the middle class bring down costs, make sure health care is affordable, prescription drugs, you could just go down the line of the sorts of things that she’s talking about?’ he asked.

‘They do need to hear that, and they need to know that she’s committed to fighting for those things every day. 

‘But at the same time, we cannot ignore the threat that Donald Trump poses as a potential leader of the free world for the next four years.’

He cited former Trump white House Chief of Staff John Kelly, who last week warned that the former president would rule like a dictator if he returned to power.

‘Both messages need to get out,’ said Binder.  

David Binder has worked with Harris ever since her first run for office in San Francisco

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump held a rally Sunday night at Madison Square Garden as he launches his closing message for the final week

Binder was one of the first people recruited when Barack Obama decided to run, according to David Axelrod, his campaign chief.

He told ABC News that Binder’s focus groups in 2011 were central to plotting a roadmap to reelection when Obama’s future was in doubt.

And he said Binder had known Harris in California’s political circles since before she ran for office.

Trump has seen several swing states edge his way, according to recent polls.

The DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners decision model, which crunches decades of political numbers plus the latest polls, gives Trump a 66.9 percent chance of victory.

But Binder said he did not see things the same way. 

‘We do not see momentum for Mr. Trump,’ he said.

‘Not totally sure where the momentum stories are coming from, because … there are public polls that we do pay attention to it some we don’t, but they’re all pretty much saying that the when you look at the Electoral College, you look at the seven states that are in play, the battleground states, all of them are still within the margin of error.’

Trump delivered his closing message, ‘Harris broke it, Trump will fix it,’ at a rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday evening. 

But it was overshadowed by several speakers who made racist and crude remarks, including comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who described Puerto Rico as ‘a floating island of garbage.’ 

Harris is due to lay out her her closing argument on Tuesday in Washington.