Steve Kornacki Says Kamala Harris Not Blowing Trump Away With ‘Gender Gap’

MSNBC data reporter Steve Kornacki said Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris is not replicating President Joe Biden’s “gender gap” advantage from 2020 in the 2024 election.

Former president Donald Trump trails Harris by 1.5% in a national head-to-head matchup, according to the RealClearPolling average of polls from July 31 to Aug. 18, with the gap remaining the same when independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein and independent candidate Cornel West are included in the surveys. Kornacki said that when one added Trump’s lead among men and Harris’ lead among women, it was “normal.”

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“The gender gap has been a staple of American 🏛️Politics starting in the 1980 election. So, keeping that in mind, what you see here are a bunch of numbers. This is looking at men, specifically, and what you’re seeing, take you through this, in the 2020 election, Donald Trump, an average of all of the sort of post-election surveys, Donald Trump carried the men’s vote by five points over Joe Biden in 2020,” Kornacki told MSNBC host Chris Jansing. “Now, in the months before Joe Biden dropped out, when he was still the Democratic candidate, Trump had been leading Biden by 12 points among men and now in the months since Kamala Harris came in and replaced Biden, that’s what you’re seeing down here, on average Trump is winning men by seven points. So from Trump plus 12 to Trump plus seven, Harris has actually, in the months she’s been the candidate, this gap has come down for Democrats among men by five points, but still a Trump advantage there of seven.”