CNN’s Political Director Pin Points The Key Question For Who Will Win ‘Margin of Error’ Race Between Trump and Harris

CNN’s Political Director David Chalian offered his take Wednesday on the latest polling data in the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Chalian explained what dynamic he sees is currently unfolding and what the key question he believes will be front of mind for voters in November.

CNN’s Dana Bash kicked off the discussion by noting, “Let’s just do a snapshot of where this race is. According to a brand new Marist poll. No clear leader. I mean, it says 51 to 48, but if you look at the margin of error, it’s anybody’s race right now, David.”

“Yeah. I mean, listen, Kamala Harris, has snapped this race, back into contention. A race that was slipping away from the Democrats. Just, I don’t know, 17, 18 days ago, when Joe Biden was still, the Democratic nominee. It is head spinning when you think about it’s only been two and a half weeks, and this is an entirely new race,” Chalian replied, adding:

And that is the problem for Donald Trump. I mean, this is this is the reality, if indeed, and we’ll see how the American people sort of respond to this in the fall. But if indeed the truism that presidential elections are really about the future and not about the past, what the Democrats have done here by ridding themselves of their unpopular incumbent president and putting together a ticket of new faces and new energy that is enthusing the Democratic base has set up this contrast now of they are pointing towards the future. And Donald Trump is literally arguing to restore a previous administration. And so that that now is the dynamic in which this contest will take place.

And that is why you hear the Trump team working so hard to paint this new, energized Democratic ticket as outside the mainstream of American politics, as far too left and far too liberal to be able to appeal to the widest swath of Americans. So will this be decided on ideological grounds, or will this be decided on the notion of the future versus the past? That is, I don’t have the answer to that question yet, but I think that is the question that will be put before people this fall.

Watch the clip above via CNN.