'What everybody should be sober about' in face of Harris enthusiasm: ex-Obama adviser

25.07.2024 06:07

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David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, on Wednesday shared his thoughts on how seriously Americans should take polling numbers when it comes to Kamala Harris' and Donald Trump's favor with voters across the country.

"David, when you look at that polling, do you put much stock in the number at this point?" CNN's Jake Tapper asked the ex-White House official.

"Well, I'd say a few things about it. One is this thing has been settled and it won't for a while," Axelrod said. "So I don't know exactly how much to put into it. I do think it reflects the reality that where Joe Biden was weak with younger voters, and voters of color, she's doing better now, and likely will do better in November."

The former Obama official continued, "She's probably losing a little ground among older voters — some white voters, who were committed to Biden, but we don't know where this is going. And we should point out that for her being tied or close to tied in a national poll is a loss because — if you're a Democrat — you have to be a few points ahead nationally in order to carry the battleground states. The polls are overweighted for large states like California, New York, and so on, where she's going to roll up big numbers."

"I think she's had an amazing rollout, and the enthusiasm is real, the money is incredible, the volunteers [etc.], and I think that there's some momentum to that that may continue," Axelrod concluded. "But everybody should be sober about the fact that this is a hard race, and she's not a head right now. And it's going to take a lot of work to get to 270 electoral votes."

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