By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-10-30 22:41:43 | Updated at 2024-11-06 00:17:24
6 days ago
A top election data guru revealed a major sign that former President Donald Trump could win the presidential election next week.
CNN senior political data reporter Harry Enten said a key metric going into the election in six days is the low number of voters who feel the country is on the 'right track.'
Just 28 percent of Americans in an aggregate of recent polls believe that the country is going in the right direction.
That's a significant hurdle for Vice President Kamala Harris to overcome, Enten told CNN anchor John Berman and Kate Bolduan.
'There isn't a single time in which 28 percent of the American public thinks the country is going on the right track in which the incumbent party actually won,' Enten said, citing every election since the 1980s.
'The bottom line is if Republicans win come next week, Donald Trump wins come next week, the signs all along will have been obvious,' he said.
He noted that just 28 percent of Americans in the polls believed that the country was on the wrong track
'You can't say you weren't warned,' he added.
He referenced former presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry S. Truman, and George W. Bush's terrible poll numbers as an example of when the incumbent party lost the elections.
Biden's low approval ratings, he noted, are also bound to be a drag on Harris' electability.
'So the bottom line is for Kamala Harris to win. She'd have to break history,' he said, adding that 'Biden's approval rating is way underwater at this point.'
Enten also reported that Republicans were bringing in 'big huge numbers' of voter registrations in swing states like Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, expanding their leads from 2020.
'Republicans are putting more Republicans in the electorate, the Democratic number versus the Republican number has shrunk,' he said.
'Republicans are putting more Republicans in the electorate, the Democratic number versus the Republican number has shrunk,' he said
Enten said his election data report was focused on Trump's path to victory and would follow up with the case for Harris in a future appearance.
His report appeared to have rattled Bolduan, the CNN co-host on duty.
'It's not even the content but sometimes Harry's delivery is very scary,' she replied. 'Harry is a very scary man.'
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