CNN’s Harry Enten Warns That ‘History Isn’t So Kind’ to Kamala Harris’s Chances of Winning

CNN’s Harry Enten warned that “history isn’t so kind” to Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s chances of winning in November on Wednesday while discussing President Joe Biden’s dismal approval rating.

The segment in question began with good news for Harris: While Republican nominee Donald Trump’s favorability rating remains underwater at -9%, Harris’s is at +1 according to Enten’s aggregation of various polls.

“You’d look at this and you’d say to yourself, “Oh, Kamala Harris should be well ahead in this race.’ But that CNN poll out yesterday had Harris up by just a point. The Quinnipiac University poll that was out yesterday showed something very similar,” observed Enten. “So the bottom line here is that Kamala Harris is in positive territory, she’s clearly better liked by Donald Trump. But yet we have a very close horse race on our hands.”

As an explanation for this reality, Enten cited the CNN poll’s finding that while 51% of American believe Trump’s presidency was a success, just 37% feel the same way about Biden’s tenure in the White House.

“I think the net favorability ratings don’t actually get into the fact that there are a lot of folks who like the job he [Trump] did as president, but don’t necessarily like him personally,” submitted Enten.

“Joe Biden no longer on the ballot, but what does history show about his unpopularity and the impact it can have?” inquired anchor Kate Bolduan.

“There’s only three examples going back, the successor, was the successor the same party when the net favor-, when the net approval rating was negative at this point in the cycle?” replied Enten. “So here we go: George W. Bush, obviously a Republican didn’t succeed him. Lyndon Johnson, there was no Democrat who succeeded him. Harry Truman, no Democrat who succeeded him. Now we’re looking at Joe Biden. Could a Democrat succeed him despite his net approval rating being as low as it is? History isn’t so kind. But again, we’re really just looking at a sample size of three. But the bottom line is: I think we can say Joe Biden is a drag on Kamala Harris despite her own popularity, at least measured through net favorability.”

Watch above via CNN.

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