CNN’s chief knowledge analyst, Harry Enten, on Monday mentioned Democrats main in key races have shared a “key frequent element” regardless of their ideological variations as they head into election night time: they’re going after Donald Trump.
“Democrats are on the precipice of delivering an enormous blow to Donald Trump in his second time period,” Enten advised CNN’s Sara Sidner.
Enten, citing an combination of polls, highlighted how Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) is up by +6 factors within the New Jersey gubernatorial race, whereas former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a average, is main by +10 factors within the Virginia gubernatorial race.
New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is up by +16 factors, as properly.
Trump has endorsed Sherrill’s opponent, former New Jersey state Rep. Jack Ciattarelli (R), and has enthusiastically backed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the latter of whom misplaced to Mamdani in an upset in June’s Democratic mayoral primaries earlier than he launched an unbiased bid.
The president has not backed Virginia’s GOP candidate for governor, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, by title.
Enten went on to emphasize that Trump has been a “enormous drag” within the races earlier than pointing to an combination of polls exhibiting how the president’s web reputation ranking is underwater in New Jersey (-11 proportion factors), Virginia (-14 factors) and New York Metropolis (-35 factors).
He famous that the president’s web reputation ranking on a nationwide scale is underwater (-13 factors), as properly.
“So, these races,” Enten continued, “in my thoughts, may very well be enormous bellwethers going into subsequent yr to understanding how Donald Trump is impacting these races.”
