A CNN panel Wednesday discussed Democrats’ growing concerns about the prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris running against former President Donald Trump in November.
Trump and Harris are locked in a close race in seven key battleground states. According to Convert to the current RealClearPolling average value. Panelists on “Inside Politics with Dana Bash” are concerned that Democrats will have a hard time attracting enough voters to defeat the former president, and that Trump is likely to lose his grip on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He pointed out concerns about the possibility of a repeat of the 2016 defeat. (Related: ‘They’re holding him back’: Influential liberal commentator says Harris campaign’s underground strategy backfired during debates)
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CNN correspondent Priscilla Alvarez said: “Talk to the Democrats. They’ve always been pretty bragging about their ground war, and they still are, but they need to translate that into votes.” Ta. “So there is certainly a lot of anxiety and tension as we get closer to voting day, and the polls remain deadlocked.”
“I think we’ve all heard this. I spoke to a Democratic activist yesterday, and he said, ‘I feel like I’m sleepwalking into 2016.’ There are a lot of differences,” CNN anchor Dana Bash argued. “So I think the differences are greater than the similarities. [post-traumatic stress] That’s the reality for Democrats. ”
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said Tuesday that if Trump outperformed President Joe Biden in 2020 by the same margin in 2024 polls, that would be enough to give Harris a “big loss.” He pointed out that it would win battleground states.
“It’s also important to remember the 2016 polls. Clearly, there were polls at the time that, whether it was unanswered calls or a general distrust of pollsters, were unable to get candidate Trump. There was a very big problem that there wasn’t,” said Kayla Tausche, senior White House correspondent. “And while some of that still exists, and pollsters have tried to rebalance the data, this time eight years ago Hillary Clinton had a 12-point lead over Donald Trump. She was at 50% and Trump was at about 38%. So if you look at these polls that show that Harris and Trump are still within the margin of error, and you compare it to 2016, it’s right there. It turns out that one of the main reasons for your anxiety is:
Harris secured the Democratic nomination in July after Biden resigned and endorsed Harris, even though the vice president had virtually no approval from primary voters. Tausche said “the fact that she has not been field-tested in the primary” is a “source of embarrassment within the campaign.”
“Democrats are nervous. Some of it is from 2016 and some of it is what they got from the campaign, which spent time standing next to Liz Cheney in rural white areas. The idea is that they’re spending too much and not enough for voters with a low information base, right?” said CNN senior political analyst Nia-Marika Henderson. “And that’s really concerning. I was emailing someone earlier this week and I said, ‘Why is this campaign keeping me up at night?’ And can it mobilize these low-information, scattered voters?”
Journalist Mark Halperin said Tuesday that Harris is on a dire trajectory to win in battleground states, based on the latest private polls he has reviewed. He also argued that Democrats and Trump supporters he has spoken to agree that Trump is gaining ground in these key states.
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