Scott Jennings Wrecks CNN Commentator Defense of Harris With Just One Line

As we go into the debate, Kamala Harris seems to be imploding before our eyes. Though, to be fair, there wasn't much there except a cackle and a word salad to begin with.

But the polls are starting to turn on her. Even CNN is savaging her with some honesty about her insane past record. CNN's Andrew Kaczynski and Erin Burnett who just ripped into her prior positions, Burnett seemed horrified at how extreme Harris was.

Unfortunately for Cardona, political commentator Scott Jennings was there

Democrats are starting to sweat big time, as a segment on CNN dealing with the most recent NY Times/Sienna poll showed. CNN's Democratic political commentator Maria Cardona tried to argue that CNN polling showed people thought former President Donald Trump was more extreme.

But that isn't what the poll found. The NYT poll, which had Trump up two points in the national poll with the multi-candidates (and one point up head-to-head) found that Harris was the one who was viewed as too progressive and more radical than Trump. Most Americans said Trump was not too far left or right. Think about that for a second, that shows great discernment, after years of being told by media and Democrats that Trump was Hitler, they knew what was what in that poll. And it says that most Americans are not progressives.

Cardona might also want to check in with Kaczynski and Burnett.

Unfortunately for Cardona, political commentator Scott Jennings was there and blew up her spin, as Matt Vespa at our sister site Townhall explained.

“If people believe he [Trump] is an extremist, then why isn't she [Kamala] winning?” asked Jennings. “If it's a tied race nationally, there's a 100% chance he's going win the Electoral College."

That made Cardona lose her mind. She tried to pull out the results in 2022. But 2022 was a midterm election which isn't comparable and didn't include Trump. As some including pollster Nate Silver explained there's a variation between the national vote and the Electoral College. If you look at 2016, Hillary was up 2.1 in the final results in the national polling. She lost. In 2020, Biden was up 4.1. He barely scraped by. You can see more of what Jennings means in this Silver model.

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— Nickarama (@nickaramaOG) September 10, 2024

Silver's Electoral College probability forecast also just keeps increasing for Trump, and it has him up in all the swing states.

#Latest @NateSilver538 Forecast (9/9)

🟥 Trump: 64.4% (new high)
🟦 Harris: 35.3%
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Swing States: chance of winning

Pennsylvania - 🔴 Trump 65-35%
Michigan - 🔴 Trump 55-45%
Wisconsin - 🔴 Trump 53-47%
Arizona - 🔴 Trump 77-23%
North Carolina - 🔴 Trump 76-24%
Georgia - 🔴… pic.twitter.com/Cw23W9WmSK
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) September 9, 2024

If that data is accurate, then Trump just needs to lay out his points and her points as clearly as he did when he beat the pants off Joe Biden. If he does that, he's going to have the edge going into the final days of the election.

Of course, don't count on polls and get everyone you can out to vote.