Kamala Harris's presidential campaign is facing a historic problem, a CNN election guru said Friday, pointing out how few voters think the U.S. is on the right track under her leadership.
The surprising admission came during a segment where CNN journalist Harry Enten showed host John Berman a recent survey that found only a small portion of respondents believe the U.S. is on the right track.
'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,' Enten said. 'Just 28 percent of Americans think the U.S. is on the right track.'
After analyzing the findings of the Cook Political Report survey, the CNN journalist dropped a bombshell about Harris's electoral odds: 'The bottom line is, it looks a lot more like a loser than it does like a winner.'
CNN journalist Harry Enten warned that Kamala Harris's campaign has some historically bad numbers when it comes to whether voters think the country is on the right track
His analysis examined past voter sentiment ahead of successful presidential campaigns.
It found that no president's party since at least 1980 has won a second term with so few Americans believing that the country is 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 told Berman.
'John simply put, it would be historically unprecedented.'
Enten then explained how past successful campaigns have seen much higher numbers indicating voters believe the country is on the right track.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an event at the Redford Township Fire Department North Station in Redford Township, Mich., Friday, Oct. 4, 2024
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he arrives at Augusta Regional Airport to visit areas impacted by Hurricane Helene, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, in Augusta, Ga.
'Look throughout history, right — ’96, ’88, ’04, ’12, ’84 — in all of these instances, in all these instances, far more than 28 percent thought that the country was on the right track,' the CNN reporter said.
'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.'
And the indication that Harris's campaign is struggling is also represented in the latest DailyMail.com election analysis.
A slew of recent surveys has shown Donald Trump with leads in key battleground states.
When the data are processed through our DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners model it shows the former president winning in 56.7 percent of the simulations.
It means that, overall, Trump moves out to a 13-point lead from just five points earlier in the week.
To be clear, this is not like a poll lead.
Instead, it shows the frequency with which Trump wins the electoral college when our model crunches through all the thousands of possible permutations of states using all the latest available data (along with decades worth of election results combined with economic data.)