‘They’re Really Worried’: Mark Halperin Says Early Vote ‘Still Really Bad’ For Dems

Journalist Mark Halperin said Monday that early voting is a worrying indicator for Vice President Kamala Harris’ chances against former President Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election.

Former President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina said on “Inside with Jen Psaki” Sunday that “the early vote numbers are a little scary” for Harris, noting Republicans have made gains in early voting compared to 2020. Halperin said on “The Morning Meeting” that Messina’s assertion and his own sources justify Democratic concerns over early voting.

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“My sense of the early vote is it is not as disastrous as it was in the first three days to the Democrats, but it’s still really bad. And the Harris campaign has done a great job of spinning the national media on it,” Halperin said. “And when you talk to people in the states, there’s two categories of people in the states. There’s more junior people who don’t lie about the data and what it means. What you have now is tons of senior Democrats are in the states, they’re door-knocking, like people who have run presidential campaigns are literally going to Michigan and Pennsylvania and door-knocking.”

“And those people are honest with me because they’re worried. And they’re not in the business … like Wilmington is. They’re really worried, okay? They may be wrong, they may be wrongly worried,” he continued. “The Pennsylvania numbers, when they come out today, if she’s below a 400,000 vote lead compared to [President Joe] Biden’s lead in 2020, it’s gonna be problematic for her.”

The journalist then asserted Messina’s statement is “the biggest indication that we’ve seen that the early vote is a problem for [Harris],” as he tends to be optimistic about Biden and Harris in his television appearances.

Halperin had previously said on Oct. 22 that Trump would secure victory on Nov. 5 if the early voting trajectory at the time held steady, asserting Democrats would be unable to combat Republicans’ early gains on Election Day.

The Nevada Independent CEO and editor Jon Ralston also asserted Friday that Republicans’ statewide lead in early voting had “caused a lot of concern for Democrats.” Republicans lead Democrats by 4% in early voting, according to a Sunday blog post by Ralston.

Trump currently holds small leads over Harris in all of the top seven battleground states except Michigan and Wisconsin, according to the RealClear Polling averages.

Republished with permission from The Daily Caller News Foundation.