On Tuesday, Karl Rove of Fox News cautioned that the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris may be currently being overly optimistic about her chances to triumph in November.
He noted that she is currently polling lower than both Joe Biden in 2020 and Hillary Clinton in 2015 for the same period in the campaign.
Rove’s commentary was preceded by anchor Bret Baier’s recital of a Democratic strategist’s warning that Harris’s present approach of refraining from commenting on policy and avoiding the media is derived from foolishness.
“What do you make of that?” Baier asked Rove during a recent interview.
“She [Harris] needs to be more specific. Let’s not be critical of her by saying she has to have a Democrat Congress and a Democrat Senate in order to get these things done. Because the same can be said for Donald Trump; he has to have a Republican Senate and a Republican House to get everything done. But people want to know where you’re coming from, and they want to know enough about the specifics to to get their hands around it,” Rove stated.
“But the other point about polling, I want to, if possible, let’s talk about that a little bit, because I think let’s put this in perspective. On this day in 2020, Joe Biden was up 7.1% above Donald Trump in the RealClearPolitics average. And at this point in 2016, Hillary Clinton was up 6.3. And as you remember, the election came down to a handful of votes in a handful of states. And today, in the RealClearPolitics average, Harris is up over Trump by 1.5 in the RCP average and 3.5 in the 538.com.” he added.
“So this, you know, she’s ahead in both averages, but she’s nowhere near ahead by the numbers that both Biden and Clinton were in. And as we know, Clinton lost and Biden won by 42,000 votes in three states. To complicate it further, these are national numbers we’re talking about, and we’ve got a number of polls, 8 to 10 polls that make up these averages, but how is she doing and how is he doing in the battleground states, the 6 or 7 battleground states? We have nowhere near, we have a few polls in several states, but we certainly don’t have 6 or 7 or 8 polls that would give us an average and therefore give us a better idea of where they actually are.” Rove concluded.
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