Vice President Kamala Harris' polling among black men and women is “very weak,” CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said Monday on “News Central.”
“This is Democratic support among black men under 45 in the presidential election,” Enten said. “Go back to November 2012, and what do you see? Obama won by 81 points. Clinton won by 81 points. They only won by 63 points. Then they went down to 53 points last time. That's already a huge drop. And if you look at the latest polling average, Kamala Harris is down by just 41 points. This is about half the difference that Obama won in November 2012.
Host John Berman said, “What about black men as a whole?”
“It's all part of the same picture,” Enten said. “Barack Obama won by 85 points. Then Clinton got 71 points and Biden got 69 points, so it's basically the same and stable. But again, it's very stable. It was very weak, by only 54 points, again by a large margin, but much lower than before.”
Host John Berman asked, “Does she feel at all safe being with a black woman?''
“She's had better luck with black women than with black men,” Enten said. But there's almost no trend line here until you get to Kamala Harris. So, again, this is the margin between black women. Look, Obama won them by 93 points, a huge margin. Clinton won by 93 points, a huge margin. Biden did a little worse at 85 points. However, if you look here, there is a difference of 71 points. Again, these are large margins. But the bottom line is, when you're talking about the Democratic base, you would think based on history that Kamala Harris would do very well among black women. And, of course, she would be the first black female president. But if this is true, she actually has the worst performance by a black female Democratic candidate since 1960, John. ”
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