‘Very Uncommon’: CNN’s David Axelrod Points Out Key Trend In Latest Marist Poll That Could Mean a Win For Kamala Harris

CNN’s panel on Erin Burnett’s show Monday night discussed the final PBSNews/NPR/Marist poll that showed Vice President Kamala Harris beating Donald Trump nationally 51 to 47 percent.

“So I want to just go back to the Marist poll for a moment, because the thing that I found interesting in that is–” began Lulu Garcia-Navarro as Burnett noted the poll “has Harris up now.”

“It has Harris up. But, you know, in the popular vote in the popular vote will when you exactly nothing in this country as we know so I’m not even going to talk about that but when they were what, looking under the hood, 31% of people polled said preserving democracy was their top issue and then at 25% was inflation. Now, if I’m the Trump campaign, I got to be worried about that because that is something that is an outlier in the sense of where people’s heads are at. Yes, 31% preserving democracy is not good for Donald Trump,” concluded Garcia-Navarro.

Democratic strategist David Axelrod replied, “I think that’s complicated because you don’t know which percentage of those were Democrats and which percentage were Republican.”

“It means different things for different people. That said, we haven’t really seen that issue come to the forefront. Democracy is an issue that Democrats do care deeply about and even Republicans. So I don’t know. I look at that and I see numbers that move her way,” Garcia-Navarro hit back.

“Can I raise a different point in that poll that Dave Wasserman over at Cook tweeted out today, and that was voter interest. There was a big gap between the interest that women expressed in the top boxes that ten, nine — and men. And that’s very uncommon over the years that they’ve asked that question,” added Axelrod, continuing:

And it does raise the question, women generally vote, 52% of the electorate is generally female. Could that expand a little bit? Even a point or two that, you know, that would make a huge difference in this race.

Because my belief is that in my simple mind, I’m going to look at these polls and say, is the gap that she is enjoying among women greater than the gap or even to the gap that he is enjoying among men? And if that is the case, and in these individual states, she will win those states.

Watch the clip above via CNN.