CNN’s senior data expert Harry Enten has warned that Kamala Harris has incredibly weak support from young voters, despite a recent influx of Internet memes suggesting otherwise.
On Wednesday, Enten revealed that Harris, the current presumptive Democrat nominee, is struggling to gain traction among young voters.
In fact, Harris has far lower support from young voters than Democrat President Joe Biden.
Referencing CNN exit polls, Enten noted that Biden won voters under the age of 35 by 21 points in 2020.
However, Harris is leading President Donald Trump by “significantly less” as of Sunday, with a 9-point lead.
Enten said that Harris may be doing better than Biden among young voters before announcing he would not run for re-election.
However, her numbers are still “way down” from many other Democrats in the 21st century.
“If this is unique support among young voters, I would like to know what her non-unique support is,” Enten said.
“Is it even worse than this?”
He also showed another poll that displayed how motivated Democrats were to vote after Biden left the race.
Overall, 39% of Democrats said they would be more motivated to vote, while 55% said they were not.
However, among Democrats between the ages of 18 and 29, 42% said yes, and 49% said no.
“This idea, again, that the vice president has unique potential to dig in and get young voters to turn out—John, it’s just not there in the numbers despite all the Internet memes that are going around,” Enten told anchor John Berman.
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HARRY ENTEN: Harris is doing much worse against Trump with younger voters than Biden did in 2020.
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On Tuesday, Enten pulled out several polls demonstrating that Trump’s national approval rating is soaring.
Trump’s approval is now higher than ever during his time in politics.
As a result, Emnten warns that beating Trump in November will be a challenge for Harris, if she makes it that far.
Enten told anchor Sara Sidner:
“Yes, Democrats can make this switcheroo, but they’re still going to have to beat Donald Trump, a Donald Trump who is stronger, Sara, than he has ever been before.”
On Tuesday morning, the network’s data guru pointed to two recent national polls, one from ABC/Ipsos and one from Quinnipiac University.
Both show the 45th president’s popularity as it stands following the Republican National Convention last week.
“We know that Donald Trump has historically been unpopular, but take a look now,” he began.
“After the Republican National Convention, in the ABC News/Ipsos poll, he recorded his highest ever favorable rating at 40%.
“That’s not a one-off.”
Enten later provided a warning for Harris, who became the presumptive Democratic Party nominee following Biden suspending his campaign over the weekend.
“Kamala Harris is going to have to do better than this, of course, if she wants to win the popular vote, but more than that, if she wants to win the electoral college where she’ll likely have to outperform how she’s done nationally,” the reporter added.
However, Enten did acknowledge that there hasn’t been national polling on Harris since “Biden” dropped his bid over the weekend.
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