Doug Shawn, a pollster for former President Bill Clinton, said Tuesday that President Joe Biden should “stay home” if he wants to help Vice President Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania.
Biden's approval rating is 42.3%. According to With approval ratings that low, Biden campaigning with Harris would hurt Harris' chances, Schoen said. (RELATED: 'You're a big liar': Bill Maher slams Walz and Harris for 'insulting my intelligence' during CNN interview)
“I worked for Bill Clinton in 1999 and 2000,” Sean says. “He had a 60% approval rating. Al Gore deviated so far from that record that it's probably why the former vice president lost the election. Joe Biden's approval rating was around 40% the last time I checked…The best thing Joe Biden can do for Kamala Harris and her 'New Way Forward' is to stay in the White House. Or, given the past two weeks in Rehoboth Beach, to stay home.”
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Sean previously agreed with “Your World” guest host Charles Payne that Harris' reported policy shift on hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, was untrue and was motivated by growing support for fracking in Pennsylvania.
“I think it also means, 'Don't take anything I say to heart, because my values are your values,'” he said. “'What I say today and what I say tomorrow don't actually matter.' This is subtle politics and, frankly, it gives her latitude to say and do whatever it takes to win the election. It may help in the short term, but in the long term, it's, dare I say it, disastrous, because to me, the numbers you're putting up right now are the key to the election.”
In head-to-head races in the state, Harris is leading former President Donald Trump by 0.5 percentage points. According to to the RealClearPolling average.
“I think whoever wins Pennsylvania has a very good chance of becoming the next president,” Shawn continued. “It's effectively a tie, and if she is perceived to be against fracking, a position she took in 2019, she could lose western Pennsylvania and ultimately the state and the presidency.”
Nearly half of Pennsylvanians, 48%, say they support fracking in 2022, up from 39% in 2012, according to Muhlenberg College, which has been polling state residents about the energy production technology for the past 15 years.
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