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Anderson Cooper Says He Isn’t Convinced Harris Is Leading In Polls

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OPINION: This article may contain commentary which reflects the author's opinion.


CNN anchor Anderson Cooper rained on the parade of Vice President Kamala Harris who has been touting her recent polling success.

The anchor appeared on “The Late Show” where he spoke to host Stephen Colbert and said he does not believe in the polls he has seen.

“One of the big stories out there right now is the polling bump for Harris following the debate. Now, I don’t know whether to trust polls. We were supposed to trust them in 2016 and they were wrong. In 2020, they were pretty wrong,” the host said.

“Trump has traditionally underperformed in these polls,” the CNN anchor correctly said.

“So, how do you approach polls? There’s polling and there’s trends. How do you approach what’s going on in the polling. Do you care?” the quizzical host said.

“I’ve reported them. I think they’re interesting to talk about and look at and particularly when you deep dive on certain subjects like who seems to, you know, what trend line you live in —” the anchor said before being interrupted.

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“You’re looking at the crosstabs is what you’re saying?” Colbert said.

“Yes. You know, we have some great people who look at polls, but in truth, just deep down inside, I don’t think I buy them. Like, I just don’t. It’s like — I’m sure some are accurate. I’m not casting aspersions,” the CNN anchor said.

“Please start your report like, ‘we’ve got some polls and, frankly, who the f**k knows,’ but we’ll do it, we’ll do it,” the late-night host said before his guest compared polling to seeing baby pigeons.

“It’s baby pigeons,” he said of accurate polls. “They exist. I haven’t seen them [but] they exist.”

And former President Donald Trump has gotten some welcome polling news this week.

Since being named the presidential nominee of the Democrat Party, Vice President Kamala Harris has had a surge in popularity that her supporters have called “Kamalamentum.”

But many of them are the same people who insisted there was “Joementum” for President Joe Biden as he was cratering in the polls and eventually replaced as the Party’s nominee.

And now it appears the “Kamalamentum” has ground to a halt and the pendulum is starting to swing back towards former President Donald Trump.

As new polls start to be shown, they show the former president gaining ground on the vice president in key battleground states, meaning it is unlikely her debate performance did anything to give her the bump she desired.

A new poll from The New York Times and Sienna College showed the two competitors tied at 47 points nationwide, while the RealClearPolitics average of polls shows the vice president with a 1.9 percent edge which is where it has been since the start of the month.

In the battleground state of Pennsylvania, the vice president is shown to have a four percentage point lead over the former president at 50 to 46.

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But that poll appears to be an outlier as the RealClearPolitics average for Pennsylvania only has the vice president ahead by one percentage point at 48 to 47.

The Hill/Emerson College poll had even better news for the former president as it showed him ahead 50 percent to 47 percent in Georgia, 49 percent to 48 percent in Arizona and Wisconsin, with a tie in Nevada at 48 percent.

Stunningly the Democrat nominee was shown to be ahead of her rival 49 percent to 48 percent in North Carolina and, not as surprisingly, 49 percent to 47 percent in Michigan.

But even if she were to take Nevada in that scenario, the former president would still have the electoral votes needed to secure the presidency in November.

The RealClearPolitics map gives Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada to Harris while North Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona to Trump which would 276 to 262 electoral votes in favor of the vice president, which would hand her the presidency.

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