CNN warned Kamala Harris this red flag would cost her the election
Kamala Harris’ allies in the media are getting worried.
The race was supposed to be in the bag by now.
But CNN warned Kamala Harris this red flag would cost her the election.
New CNN polls show warning signs for Kamala Harris
CNN battleground polls showed the race a toss-up.
Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Nevada are effectively tied.
Former President Donald Trump led outside the margin of error in Arizona.
Vice President Kamala Harris held the advantage in Michigan and Wisconsin.
But the top-line numbers gave the media no comfort.
CNN political director David Chalian told viewers that Trump held massive leads over Kamala among white voters with no college degree.
In Georgia, Trump led Kamala by 34 points with non-college educated white voters and ran up big margins with this cohort in the other swing states.
Chalian explained that Trump was as strong as ever with his base.
“If you look at the white voters without college degrees, this is a Trump base constituency, obviously. You see his huge numbers with this group. You see that this is a trouble sign for Harris,” Chalian stated.
He said it was Kamala Harris, and not Donald Trump that had ground to make up.
And Chalian was worried that she was underperforming with college-educated white voters, a group that is now central to the Democrat Party’s coalition.
“She also, in places like Georgia, is not doing well with white college-educated voters. She probably wants to make up some ground with white college-educated voters across these battlegrounds as well,” Chalian concluded.
CNN’s David Chalian Warns Of ‘Trouble Sign For Harris’ As She Lags Behind Trump’s ‘Huge Numbers’ With Key Demographic pic.twitter.com/Nos557lENn
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 4, 2024
The accuracy of CNN’s polls
CNN showing Kamala Harris with smaller leads in the battleground states than President Joe Biden held in 2020 also has Democrats nervous.
In 2020, CNN’s final polls showed Biden leading Trump by 12 in Pennsylvania, 10 in Michigan, 8 in Wisconsin, and 4 in Arizona.
The polling errors ranged from 3 to 9-point misses.
It was also no accident the biggest polling errors were in the Blue Wall states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Those states are ground zero for the white working-class voters who migrated over to the GOP beginning in the 2016 Election.
Rural voters without a college degree are less likely to respond to pollster’s phone calls or be reachable because they don’t have landlines.
There is growing concern in the media about the state of Kamala Harris’ campaign.
Had the press thought the CNN polls were rosy for Kamala, the coverage would have focused on her leads.
Instead, CNN offered a sober analysis of the numbers underneath the hood.
Democrats assumed a slickly produced convention would shoot Kamala out like a rocket ship toward the General Election.
Instead, the polls show Kamala Harris fizzling out on the launch pad.
