Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, said Thursday that polling and data experts believe the race between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is extremely close, far more than most reporters do.
“If you polled most reporters and Democrats not involved with the Harris-Waltz campaign, 85% would say Kamala Harris would win if the election were held today,” Pfeiffer said. He said in an interview The announcement was made Thursday by Pac News' John Heilman.
National polls have found Trump and Harris locked in a tight race in the final months before Election Day, with a recent CNN poll showing Harris with slight leads in Michigan and Wisconsin, while Trump has a lead in Arizona, while Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania are all neck and neck.
Trump and Harris in close race in key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada: poll
Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, said polling and data experts believe the race between former President Trump and Vice President Harris is extremely close, far more so than most reporters. (Getty Images)
“If you ask people who actually follow the numbers and are watching very closely what's going on in the battleground states, it's probably closer to 50-50,” Pfeiffer said, “and I think if the election were held today, there's a very good chance that Trump would win.”
Asked to explain the difference in confidence, Pfeiffer said all the battleground states, but particularly Pennsylvania, made it difficult to predict the outcome of the Trump-Harris election.
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“If you dig into the battleground state polls, they're all neck and neck,” Pfeiffer said. “There's not a single battleground state poll where a candidate has gone up or down by more than two points, and most of the states are either tied or hovering around a one-point lead.”
Kamala Harris has not held a formal press conference since emerging as the Democratic candidate.
Pfeiffer said the polls did not have the “numbers” to give him confidence that Harris was likely to win in battleground states. (Getty Images)
“When you start calculating what would happen if one of the candidates didn't win Pennsylvania, it all quickly becomes very complicated,” he said.
Pfeiffer said the polls did not have the “numbers” to give him confidence that Harris was likely to win in battleground states.
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The Harris campaign referred Fox News Digital to earlier comments made by Harris campaign representative Jen O'Malley Dillon about the election.
“But make no mistake: we enter the final stages of this campaign as clear underdogs,” Dillon said in the memo, released Sunday. “Donald Trump has a motivated base and will continue to win more support and Highly popular That's a bigger achievement than at any point since 2020.”
