Democrats are beginning to buy their own hype around Kamala Harris.
They cannot get enough of her “vibes” and “joy.”
But James Carville just rained on the Democrats’ parade with one warning about Donald Trump.
Democrats euphoric over Kamala Harris campaign
Democrats are gaga over Kamala Harris after she became the party’s 2024 Presidential nominee.
The corporate-controlled press has turned her into a transcendent political star akin to Barack Obama.
Harris has surged to a virtual deadlock with former Donald Trump in most of the polls.
According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Trump has a slim edge in five of the seven swing states, and Harris has a 1.5% advantage nationally.
This is effectively a coin flip race at this juncture, but Democrats are dreaming of an electoral landslide on election day in November.
James Carville tells Democrats to calm down
Former Bill Clinton adviser and longtime Democrat strategist James Carville cautioned Democrats to pump the brakes on the victory celebrations during an appearance on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper.
Carville explained, “Democrats are feeling better. . .It’s undeniable . . . I see the polls and I remind people of a couple of things, Jake. First of all, most quants, and they’re better at this than I am, say that the Vice President would have to win almost by three points in the popular vote to win the Electoral College.”
Carville noted that Trump consistently outperformed his polling in the 2016 and 2020 elections because people are less likely to tell pollsters they’re voting for Trump.
“And I also would point out that when President Trump runs, he overperforms his polling averages,” Carville continued. “He did it in 2016. The national polls were actually pretty spot-on, but they didn’t pull weight in the states.”
State polls in the 2020 election were slanted heavily toward Joe Biden which made it appear that he was going to cakewalk to victory.
However, Biden only won by roughly 40,000 votes spread across Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia.
Carville added, “People need to have some reality infused in their optimism. . .I’m glad that people are feeling better. I’m glad that people are excited. But anybody that looks at this with any sense of history, any sense of objectivity, sees that there’s plenty possible pitfalls that we’re faced with. And we need to acknowledge that and stop being giddy all the time.”
CNN contributor Van Jones lamented that everything has gone right for Harris after she entered the race, but she is still only tied with Trump.
That suggests she’s already reached her high-water mark.
Jones complained, “We don’t wanna be tied. I don’t like being tied with Donald Trump because we’ve had now 20-plus days of positive press. . .He’s been falling down the stairs, slipping on banana peels and poking himself in the eyeball. We should not be tied. We want to pull ahead.”
There’s still a long way until November and the race is still a coin flip.
Both candidates need to run a tight campaign down the final stretch.
Informed American will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
