Democrats are likely very premature in their celebration of Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascendancy to the front-runner spot, according to CNN’s Harry Enten during a network segment on Tuesday.
The senior data analyst broke down Harris’s “difficult” journey to victory over former President Donald Trump, highlighting that her polling figures are barely higher than President Joe Biden, who was sidelined mainly by leading Democrats in the party who were concerned that Biden’s lack of popularity would undermine prospects for winning the U.S. House and Senate.
“This has been the craziest month in American politics that I can recall,” Enten said, referencing the attempted assassination of Trump and how last month’s debate seems to have happened a lifetime ago. “But here’s the thing — for all of the excitement that Democrats have over Kamala Harris, it is going to be difficult to beat Donald Trump.”
“For all of the excitement that Democrats have over Kamala Harris, it is going to be difficult to beat Donald Trump and I want to give you an understanding of why. Let’s take a look here just first at the favorable views of Donald Trump. We know that Donald Trump has historically been unpopular, but take a look now. After the Republican National Convention, in the ABC News/Ipsos poll, he recorded his highest-ever favorable rating at 40%. That’s not a one-off,” Enten told host Sara Sidner.
“Take a look at the Quinnipiac University poll, 46%. That’s the highest ever in that pollster. The fact is Donald Trump is more popular now than he ever has been before,” Enten continued. “So, yes, Democrats can make this switcharoo, but they’re still going to have to beat Donald Trump. A Donald Trump, who is stronger, Sara, than he has ever been before.”
Nate Silver, a prominent pollster, recently labeled Harris as “mediocre at best” and asserted that Trump would likely defeat her if she were to replace Biden, despite her mental fitness being compared to the president’s.
“Donald Trump is running five points better … than he was four years ago against Joe Biden. So at this particular point, whether you look at the favorable ratings, whether you look at the horse race polling, we see that Donald Trump is doing significantly better than he was doing four years ago at this point,” Enten said.
“Kamala Harris is going to have to do better than this, of course, if she wants to win the popular vote, but more than that, if she wants to win the Electoral College, which she’ll likely have to outperform how she’s done nationally because the fact is, if you’ve got a tie in the national popular vote, that is probably not good enough if you’re Kamala Harris and you want to win the election against Donald Trump,” he added.
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