CNN’s Harry Enten Sounds the Alarm for Kamala Harris: Her Campaign Looks ‘More Like a Loser’ — Victory Would Be ‘Historically Unprecedented’
CNN’s Harry Enten sounded the alarm over one particularly “bad sign” for Kamala Harris’s electoral prospects on Friday, arguing that a victory for her in this year’s presidential election would be “historically unprecedented.”
During a segment with anchor John Berman, Enten was asked about the polls show on whether Americans “think the country is on the right track or the wrong track?”
“Yeah, if we look at whether voters believe we’re on the right track or the wrong track, I think that this sort of gets at a problem for Kamala Harris’s campaign. Just 28% of Americans think the U.S. is on the right track,” replied Enten. “And I want you to put that into perspective, right? When does the average when the incumbent party loses the election, look at that: It’s just 25%. That looks a heck of a lot like that 28%, right, that currently think the country is on the right track.”
“When the White House party wins, i.e. Kamala Harris’s party, the Democrats, 42% on average think that the country is on the right track. This 25% looks a lot more like this 28%. It doesn’t look anything like this 42%,” he continued. “This to me is a bad sign for Kamala Harris’s campaign. 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.”
“Can an incumbent party win with numbers like this?” followed up Berman.
“Yeah, so if we look historically speaking, right, and we say, okay, say the U.S. is on the right track, the incumbent party when they win. Today, again, it’s just 28%. Look throughout history, right. — ’96, ’88, ’04, ’12, ’84 — in all of these instances, in all these instances, far more than 28% thought that the country was on the right track,” answered Enten. “Thirty-nine was the lowest back in 1996. We got upwards of 47% in ’84, of course that was a blowout, right, for Ronald Reagan. So there is no historical precedent for the White House party winning another term in the White House when the country, when just 28% of the country thinks that we’re on the right track. John, simply put, it would be historically unprecedented.”
Watch above via CNN.
