Hoover Institute Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson said Friday on his podcast that he believes Democrats are feeling more depressed and angry than usual because they fear they could be losing.
Polls between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have tightened with fewer than five days until Election Day. On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” the senior fellow called out a recent take from CNN’s senior reporter Harry Enten for claiming election polling could be underestimating Harris and noted that her campaign has shifted its resources from North Carolina to Virginia in search of a path to 270 electoral votes.
“My point is that I think that’s a standard response when they look at those internal polls. Now, why would I say that? They wouldn’t be shifting resources from North Carolina to Virginia,” Hanson said. “They’re ahead in Virginia, but if they were shifting resources from North Carolina to Virginia, then it would be because they’re behind in Virginia and they’re ahead, so far ahead in North Carolina, they don’t need it.”
“No, they’re shifting it because they’re behind in North Carolina, and their internal polls say they can’t win it. And I mean, internal polls that are specific, Latino groups, black groups, Asian women, men,” Hanson added. “They don’t have the numbers that they need to win that. So then they look at Virginia, and they have an alternate pathway to 270 and Virginia is absolutely central. While they’re still ahead, at the rate they’re losing in seven days, they will lose that state. So they’re putting resources in there.”
Hanson continued to state that while he believes Democrats like MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough and Joy Reid are always angry, their anger has increased over the election despite Harris’ campaign message first centering on joy.
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“There wouldn’t be this sense of gaiety and happiness. I think it’s, I’m kind of worried about overconfidence in the Trump people and depression in the Harris [camp]. They didn’t, you know, even if you were out there and feel that the mail-in balloting, they master and they have machinations that will help them, they wouldn’t be just so depressed. They are depressed, they really are, and they’re angry,” Hanson said.
“You look at Brzezinski , you look at Joe Scarborough, her husband … then you look at Joy Reid, you look at Rachel Maddow and then you look at the [View] — they’re all angry. I mean, they’re angry people anyway, but they’re just really angry. They have these, they kind of remind me of the people, when they know they’re losing and they’re all in a room together and they’re just, they can’t face reality — fantasy,” Hanson said. I don’t know if they’re really losing, but I don’t think that they’re under-polled. I really don’t.”
While Trump had once been slightly leading across all seven key wing states in mid-October, Harris gained both Michigan and Wisconsin back over the last week, according to polling averages from RealClearPolitics. Data from the site currently shows the former president has a 0.3 point lead nationally, sitting with 48.4% and Harris behind at 48.1%.
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