Staff Reports
CNN’s Harry Enten has thrown the proverbial gauntlet at Vice President Kamala Harris, suggesting she might be taking her slim poll lead for granted. During a recent segment, when pressed by anchor John Berman to elaborate on alarming revelations from a New York Times/Siena poll showing former President Donald Trump just a point ahead, Enten indicated that Harris is now without an “alluring honeymoon” period with the public that seemed to disappear faster than a Democrat’s rationale about inflation.
A month prior, several nonpartisan polls displayed Harris enjoying a comfortable cushion of 3 to 4% over Trump. Fast forward to today, however, and she finds herself head-to-head with the former president—not a comfortable position for any vice president hoping to ascend to the Oval Office. Enten made it clear that the political landscape has seriously shifted, particularly in pivotal Pennsylvania, where Trump currently holds the advantage. The keen observer noted that the race is tightening up, and not in Harris’s favor.
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For those keeping score, if Trump manages to claim Pennsylvania, the numbers could favor him in a big way. Enten flipped the math on its head, speculating that if Harris cannot secure Pennsylvania, the electoral map could swing decidedly red, yielding an Electoral College outcome that would give Trump 287 votes to Harris’s 251. The implications are staggering for Harris, who will need to raise her game significantly if she hopes to retain any semblance of control over the election.
Amid this potential electoral catastrophe for Harris, her advisors might soon regret not choosing Pennsylvania’s well-liked Democratic Governor, Josh Shapiro, as her running mate. Reports suggest pressures from the left, particularly the anti-Israel faction, forced her to steer clear of a choice that could have struck a popular chord with voters in the crucial swing state. Enten recapped internal discussions where it was thought Harris’s ticket could have benefitted from Shapiro’s impressive 59% approval rating, leading to serious questions about her political judgment should she stumble in the Keystone State.
Instead of opting for Shapiro, Harris selected Minnesota’s Governor Tim Walz, who seems to have more controversy in his political pocket than accolades. Trump’s campaign has been quick to jab at Walz over a history of desertion from duty during his National Guard service and accusations of “stolen valor.” Moreover, critics have raised eyebrows over Walz’s dubious claims about his family’s conception journey with IVF, a tale spun during a politically charged moment in Alabama. Other Democrats, including John Fetterman, have taken the liberty of predicting a Harris loss in Pennsylvania, which would throw a legal spotlight on whether her decision-making in choosing a running mate was the wobblier leg of a three-legged stool.
