Polling suggests continued troubles for the Harris-Walz campaign, and Scott Jennings suggested in a recent appearance that Harris was in hot water she wouldn’t be able to get out of before Election Day.
The Daily Caller reports:
CNN political commentator Scott Jennings said Wednesday that he doesn’t understand how Vice President Kamala Harris can anticipate a November victory, given his network’s poll indicating voters perceive former President Donald Trump’s administration as more successful.
Over 50% of voters view Trump’s term in office as “a success” while just 37% perceive President Joe Biden’s tenure as successful, according to a Tuesday CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Jennings, on “CNN News Central,” said it is a significant issue for Harris to be part of the Biden administration when most voters perceive the president as having an unsuccessful term thus far.
This point of view is probably mostly rooted in economic anxiety, as every poll so far has revealed that the economy is the number one issue for voters heading into November, and the majority of likely voters say they trust Trump’s economic leadership more than they trust Harris. This could also have something to do with foreign affairs and the comparative turmoil in the world under the administrations, as Trump was widely recognized for helping facilitate peace in the Middle East, while two major wars were started under the Biden-Harris administration.
Jennings said, “Look, she’s got a major problem: It’s Joe Biden and the fact that she’s his vice president. In our CNN survey yesterday, 51% of registered voters said that Trump had a successful presidency. Only 37% said the same about Biden and Harris. A lot of that has to do with the economy and it mostly has to do with inflation. And so she’s yet to look into a television camera and say, ‘Here are two or three things that Joe Biden did that I disagreed with and I would do it differently and I have learned from that.’ She’s effectively running on a continuation of the same. People don’t like the same and they remember Trump better. I don’t know how you expect to win under those circumstances.”
Kamala Harris can’t seem to make up her mind about whether she wants to distance herself from her current administration or not. Reports early in her campaign revealed that she wanted to differentiate herself, but following the recent FBI report alleging a decrease in violent crime, she released an official White House statement and tried to take credit for the reduction.
“The nervous campaign this morning is the Harris campaign. They’re not where they need to be with young voters, they’re not where they need to be with voters of color, working class voters. They’re not achieving the margins that they need, that Joe Biden was getting in 2020 and Trump’s base is immovable and right now, his administration and him personally are more popular than they have ever been. It’s a problem.”
Trump has seen historic gains with black and Hispanic voters throughout the cycle that a Republican presidential candidate hasn’t had in decades.
The Daily Caller continues:
CNN anchor Brianna Keilar said Tuesday that her network’s poll contains “some alarming numbers” for Harris as she is leading Trump among black voters by 63% and 19% among Latino voters. CNN political director David Chalian noted Harris’ current margin is substantially behind Biden’s 2020 exit polling with black and Hispanic voters.
Trump is presently leading Harris in the more racially diverse sun belt states of Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina, according to a Monday New York Times/Siena College Poll. However, Harris currently holds narrow leads over the former president in the whiter Great Lake battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to the RealClearPolling averages.
