CNN Data Reporter Warns Kamala Harris Campaign Looks 'Like a Loser'
By: Liam Archacki (The Daily Beast)
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CNN data reporter Harry Enten says that one key statistic may spell serious trouble for Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign just one month out from the election—so much so that a win would be, in his words, "historically unprecedented."
In a segment with host John Berman, Enten analyzed the polling data around the question, "Do you think the country is on the right track?" Apparently, just 28 percent of Americans think that the United States is currently headed in the right direction under its Democratic leadership.
Enten said that this a problem for Harris, the party's nominee, given that, on average, this figure sits at 42 percent in years when the incumbent party wins the presidency and just 25 percent when it loses.
"This to me is a bad sign for Kamala Harris's campaign," he said. "The bottom line is it looks a lot more like a loser than it does like a winner when it comes to the country being on the right track."
Enten also shared the historical data from specific years, pointing out that the lowest this figure has been in a year that the incumbent party won was 39 percent, when President Bill Clinton won a second term over Republican Bob Dole and Independent Ross Perot in 1996. When Ronald Regan won a blowout in 1984, 47 percent of Americans thought the country was on the right track.
"So there is no historical precedent for the White House party winning another term in the White House… when just 28 percent of the country thinks that we're on the right track," Enten said. "Simply put, it would be historically unprecedented."
Polling data has told a mix of different stories for Harris and her opponent, former President Donald Trump, in recent days. She swept polls on her debate performance versus Trump in early September, seeming to earn a bump for her election chances—especially in crucial swing states Pennsylvania and Michigan.
A poll released in the past several days, however, showed that Trump was doing surprisingly well with Latino voters, a group that has historically leaned solidly Democrat.
Despite his history of racist comments against Latinos, 40 percent said they would vote for the GOP nominee while 54 percent said they would vote for Harris—a 12-year low for Democratic nominees.
Both candidates are feverishly campaigning in battleground states 32 days out from the Nov. 5 general election.
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This is both sidesist garbage, intended to buck Trump up.
Does anyone with a brain seriously believe the country is mentally and psychologically in a similar place as it was in 1996 or 1984? Or any other election year.
What does that mean? Facts are both sideist?
This reads like dispatches from the Communist Party Congresses of the 20s..
"He's a right deviationist!!! We can't listen to him!" He a bothsidest! Shoot him!
I dont think what the mood was in 1984 is relevant to today. Can the mood in 1984 predict the 2024 election? I seriously doubt it. In a normal landscape it might be a little useful, but to act like it is useful this time is bothsidesism.
That was a cruel regime! In fact the government often used to murder opponents-- often by trained shootists!
That's not what the analyst is doing...
Why wouldn't the mood of the country have a correlation to how people vote? If 70% of the country were happy with it's direction, do you think Harris would be struggling to get to 50% of the vote?
Hopefully millions of people who are not happy with the direction of the country will vote against Trump because he is the reason they are not happy. Believe it or not MAGA insanity is a big part of the direction of the country.
Metrics from another time are not relevant this year, but CNN wants to keep Trump up to speed.
I want to make something clear - any normalization of Trump is bothsidesism. There are not two legitimate sides to this election. There is no reasonable argument in favor of putting a traitor into office in an American election.
How is he a traitor?
How isnt he?
Well, for starters, he hasn't done anything treasonous.
Proof?
No charges of treason have ever been filed, even by the most TDS riddled DAs
Not sure how you can continue to blame Trump when the Biden/Harris administration has been in charge for the past 3.5 years. You are trying to ignore what the current administration has done and just blame Trump. I get that you don't want Trump in the Oval Office, neither do I. But to ignore what has happened due to the current administration is willfully wearing blinders.
Thank you for telling the truth, Snuffy.
You are an inspiration to those who know the truth.
I didnt say he is guilty of treason, I said he is a traitor. We have been over this many many times so you are actually trolling right now.
I'm not ignoring anything. I'm saying that some of the people who say we are on the wrong track say so because Trump could get back in power.
You are right. We have been over this before, however, you have been shown that in order to be a traitor, you must commit an act of treason.
There is no other argument, no matter how much your left wing sources try to say there is.
total nonsense
that is EXACTLY what Trump did.
No, that is not the question asked. When that question is asked, it reference real, current time, not what might happen oin the future.
Which is a treasonous act.
If that is the case, charges would have been filed., but, alas.....to the chagrin of the far left.
I really don't think that question included Trump. I think you are inserting that into the narrative due to your own bias.
When asked if they think the country is on the right track at the midterms (ie, 2022) only 26% of the respondents said they felt the country is on the right track. In that time frame, Biden was still in charge and very popular and the Democrats beat off that big Red Wave rather successfully. As Trump didn't announce his 2024 run until November 16th, 2022 he really isn't included in that polling.
It is simply that the large majority of people felt the country was not on the correct path.
I also see you ignored the second definition in your source, to wit...
2. one who commits treason
Your argument is gone.
The Trump administration left us in the worst financial shape in decades with the highest unemployment in decades with a raging pandemic that he lied about and likely contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans due to his disinformation and downplaying of a deadly virus and on top of that, for his final moments in the white house he riled up his rabid base to violently attack our capital and hundreds of capital police in an attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power which had never happened before in the history of our great nation. The Biden administration had to clean up that mess and while they're not perfect, they didn't solve mankind's or all of America's problems in the last 3.5 years, they did a damn fine job in stabilizing things to where we have the highest DOW numbers in history with historically low unemployment rates. Did Covid and the supply chain issues left to them from the Trump administration lead to crazy inflation? Yes, but that would have occurred regardless of who was in the white house.
Of course, I know that many Americans, especially among the poorly educated that Trump said he loves, won't accept those basic facts and want to blame whatever administration is in office for all their problems because it's hard to take personal responsibility, especially for those like Trump and his sycophant boot lickers which is why this will be a close election. Either way I know our country will survive even if the tangerine turd is back in the oval office for four years. Thankfully, even if Trump does win, he'll be gone after at most four years and we'll never have to think about that vile piece of shit again, at least until his unhealthy lifestyle and greasy cheeseburger diet put him in the ground which will no doubt spawn massive media coverage since so many seem to just love watching train wrecks to make themselves feel less miserable about their own lives.
The Trump administration borrowed money for the pandemic, yes. But how much additional money was borrowed by the Biden administration which really spiked inflation? Why is this years deficit almost $2 Trillion? The Covid pandemic hurt financially but had it not happened what shape do you think things would have been in today?
But who really caused the high unemployment? The federal government only pushed a single 15 day shutdown to flatten the curve, it was individual states that locked down their people, shuttering businesses and forcing all those people out of work. Had the states not shut down everything, would the unemployment numbers spiked like that? I think not.
Yeah, he wasn't entirely truthful about the virus, but how much of the disinformation was his and how much was others like Fauci? China still disavows any knowledge of what happened despite all the information that has been coming out. Let's not ignore that Trump's policies helped get the vaccines to the public much faster than the normal route would have. You want to talk about the deaths of Americans, why don't you then blame Biden who had more people die from Covid than Trump did. When Trump left office the death count was just over 400k. In May of 2022, the death count went over 1,000,000. That's 600k for Biden. Why aren't you angry about his inactions and failures around Covid?
Jan 6th was a horrendous action, no doubt and that is why I no longer support Trump. But there's more to it than just Trump and you chose to ignore all of that.
The Biden/Harris administration allowed the education unions to rule and keep schools closed much longer than they needed to be, as a result we have a generation of children who are how many years behind in their education? Will they ever recover from that? You want to tout job growth but how much of that was just the ending of lockdowns and re-opening of businesses that allowed people to go back to work?
IMO the best thing this administration did was getting the CHIPS act passed. I'm all for making those microchips here in the US. But that doesn't excuse all the lying and missteps this administration has done. As a result of all of this, I will be doing something I've never done. I will not be voting on the top of the ticket as neither candidate deserves my vote. Call it what you will, I don't fucking care. I will not support either of them.
Wow, that is a stretch worthy of Olympic gymnastics
That will be the theme of Trump's "bloody" mass deportation plan.
Considering Covid deaths were at their peak when Biden took over and then looking at the fact that Trump was President for just under 10 months from when the pandemic hit and Biden has been President for 46 months of Covid that works out to about 13,000 deaths a month for Biden versus 40,000 deaths a month for Trump. Are you really going to try and argue that Trump was better when it came to the pandemic? Really?
Funny how some champion States rights until it's inconvenient then they lay the blame on the administration when they don't step in and force the States to comply. And most kids are not "years behind", that's just more conspiracy theory nonsense.
" According to Kane’s research , on average students have lost about a half a grade level in math and a quarter of a grade level in reading. But that’s on average; individually, some schools are doing even better than before the pandemic, while others have lost as much as two grade levels in education."
How far has COVID set back students? — Harvard Gazette
Interestingly, the States who fought the mask mandates and school closures and chose to open them early, mostly Midwest and Southern Republican strongholds, are the furthest behind.
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Yeah, and what else happened around the same time as Trump leaving the Oval Office when talking about Covid? Oh yeah, the release of two rna vaccines that greatly reduced the chance of death. Wasn't it Biden who lambasted Trump by saying any president who has 400k deaths should just resign. Biden sure was quiet on that subject when he took over, wasn't he.
Well, look at the bright side--- at least it wasn't topist or bottomist!
Do you vote in American elections?
Good grief, it's CNN. The fact remains is that a large number of people don't feel the country is going in the right direction and they blame Biden and Harris for it.
Exactly...
So our 4.1% unemployment rate, over 4% wage growth, inflation down to below 3% and record high stock prices are bad things?
GTFOOH
Still high compared to before COVID
"ver 4% wage growth" decimated by inflation
"inflation down to below 3%" no, just is just compared to last year's rise. Inflation is up on average, 19 percent since Biden took office.
"record high stock prices " OK for those that have 401s and other stock, but no one else. The common opinion is there will be a major correction very soon.
CNN's poll of Polls gives Trump a 70% chance of winning the electoral college. Polls, at least, aren't bothsideism.
Bur remember this-- sometimes they are done by inaccuratists!
Actually, in this case, CNN demonstrated a little bothsideism...
On one side, they say Trump has a 70 percent chance of winning
On the other side, they say Harris has a 70 percent chance of losing.
I thought CNN was all fake news?
Meh.....
No different than leftists called Cheney a war criminal, but now that he supports Harris, you embrace him with a big, warm hug, "war crimes" be damned.
If that's what you want to believe, go for it.
I was never a fan of Liz or Shotgun Dick but at least they have the spine to call out the former 'president' convicted felon rapist conman traitor unlike the majority of today's gop - as far as I'm concerned - for the most part - those who don't call him out are complicit in some way to the incitement of and aftermath of 1/6.
Getting pretty sick of polls. Selectively using random polls to back up your position is just an exercise in faith. I will say one thing though - anyone thinking we are currently on a worse track than the losing one that Trump is packaged with needs to have their head examined. If you’re rich and you’re voting for Trump, the reason is obvious, and it has nothing to do with helping Trump voters who are not rich. The not-rich Trumpster are oblivious to how little he gives a shit about them.
I agree with you there. The only poll that means anything is the one that will be taken on November 5th.
But to be fair, most people are oblivious to how little any politician gives a shit about them. We are only in their thoughts when they want our votes, the rest of the time they would be happier if we just stayed home and watched TV and left them alone. That is the world of Washington.
I don’t disagree with that. Some politicians are clearly worse than others though.