Analyst On CNN Says Momentum With Kamala Harris — Has ‘Fun Factor’ Going For Her Over Trump ‘Fury’
Political media analyst and former senior GOP adviser Mark McKinnon told CNN anchor Kasie Hunt that Vice President Kamala Harris has momentum and the “fun factor” over former President Donald Trump’s “fury and payback.”
With less than a month to go until Election Day, VP Harris has taken the lead over Trump in the New York Times/Siena College poll published this week — after being tied with Trump at 47% in September.
On Tuesday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, Hunt asked McKinnon if the result means Harris has the momentum:
HUNT: Mark, speaking of the election being close, there’s new “New York Times”/Siena polling out this morning that shows – and, again, it’s a national poll, but it does show some movement toward Harris, in September they had it 47/47. Now they’ve got it 49/46.
What do you read into this, if anything, in terms of where this race stands or, I always try to with – in the — in these closing weeks. I feel like the thing that makes the big difference is where is the ball rolling, right? Who’s got the momentum? Because that tends to really, in my experience, make a difference heading into Election Day.
Do you think this says something about that or not?
MCKINNON: One hundred percent, Kasie. And, you know, listen, it’s been my job over years to look at all the data and, you know, all the polling. But in the – as you said, in the last couple of weeks you just get kind of a Spidey sense for where things are going. And momentum is really key. You could feel that shift in the last week in – of the campaign in 2016. So, that’s going to be huge. And I think that the – there’s two things that you mentioned in your polling earlier about Harris that I think are – are – are compelling and relevant. One is, that she’s become the change candidate. But, you know, more than Trump has, which is astonishing when you think about the fact that she’s a – she’s technically the incumbent. So, that’s – that’s kind of a magic trick that she’s pulling off, that she’s become the change agent as an incumbent.
The other thing was your fun factor. I mean, you know, at a very base level – this is kind of the Occam’s razor point of view on this thing, which is, who do you want to see on your television for the next four years? Donald Trump, more of that fury and payback and all of that, and the anger, or do you want to see somebody who’s more joyful and just you want to see on TV. So, you can’t discount that.
Watch above via CNN This Morning.
