Democratic strategist James Carville mentioned Monday night that he has a “feeling” Vice President Harris will win the election in November.
“I don’t like to predict elections. I would just say, this just doesn’t feel like a race that Harris is gonna lose,” Carville informed CNN’s Anderson Cooper on “AC360.”
“But that’s just a feeling. That’s just a feeling,” he added.
Carville, who beforehand served as an adviser for former President Clinton, famous that almost all presidential elections in current reminiscence have been shut till the very finish — save for the 2008 election. The long-time strategist predicted 2024’s race will play out equally, remaining shut within the polls till ultimately breaking for one candidate.
The least possible state of affairs, he mentioned, is for the seven core swing states to separate, 4-3, for every candidate.
“It’s close in the polls, and I’m not convinced that it’s gonna be close on election day,” Carville mentioned, when Cooper requested why the race appears so shut, regardless of former President Trump’s embrace of unsubstantiated rumors about Haitian migrants “eating pets,” and his assist for North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) amid controversy across the gubernatorial candidate. “I’ll say this: If there’s seven swing states, the least, most least possible state of affairs is that it breaks four-three.”
“I could be wrong, but it’s gonna break in one direction or the other,” he added. “I really believe that. Most of the time, these elections do that.”
Harris and Trump stay locked in an in depth race that’s more likely to come all the way down to the vote depend in seven key swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Whereas Harris’s efficiency within the nationwide polls has improved over President Biden’s, she nonetheless stays lower than 1 proportion level away from Trump in some key swing states, in keeping with The Hill/Choice Desk HQ’s polling common. Nationally, the vp is main her GOP opponent by 3.6 factors, 50.3 p.c to 46.7 p.c, the index reveals.
