obama, you have seen her since the first debate make inroads with african-american voters. joe biden is leading, yes, right now in the polls, but that strong base of support for him as african-americans since the first debate, he s gone down a couple ticks with black voters. kamala harris has gone up. you saw in 2007, barack obama was trailing hillary clinton with african-american voters in the year before the primary voting started. that could be a similar situation where harris, if she continues to come on strong over the coming months, could potentially overtake joe biden, and when she starts winning contests, whoever is that person that comes out of iowa, new hampshire, and gets momentum on their side, that person will look like a winner to the electorate. and that s why i think that there s a bandwagon faek that will take hold and somebody might be in a position to run the table in march with all those southern states that will be voting and go into the election against donald tru
what happened in 2016. it s interesting you mentioned the midterm results and kamala harris. david drucker wrote a piece about how gop insiders fear kamala could be the next obama. he writes a smaller though equally distinguished group of republican operatives in my rolodex, a sort of gop cult of kamala had been insisting for weeks that harris was being radically underestimated. rena, do you agree? do you believe she s being underestimated? no, i don t agree. and i also don t agree with brian s point that it s too simple. listen, simplistic is how we got trump. i think this is the reality here. is that women are just going to get treated in completely different by the men in their party and men on the other side as well. so kamala, i think what she s shown us is she s complex. i think what the voters are not going to want as we lead up to election 2020 is something that s too complex. that s what the democrats are getting wrong. they re going so deep down and diving so deep down th
kamala harris, also a point behind trump. so that range, though, broadly speaking, is something we have been seeing in all sorts of polls. biden doing better than the other democrats. there s a question of if that will last, if that will hold, if that will mean anything to democratic voters, and biden running high single digits, maybe low double digits ahead of trump. question of whether that will last, but there seems to be a consensus in the polling right now that that s what people are saying right now. it really is not a surprise when you look at this. this is trump s approval rating. his average approval rating, if you put them all together, it s just over 44%. you probably expect numbers like that from a president at 44%, and more to the point, disappro disapprove, when you ask, they say disapprove of his job. well over 50%, and that number has been around that level for a while, too, so 44%, 53% on the approve/disapprove, probably going do be behind. interesting when you put t
you know, there was a morning consult poll that came out that shows him with just 24% of support among african-americans younger than 45 years old. and those individuals that i talked to, one, she s a 30-year-old outside of houston, and she said that, you know, if you look back at the 1994 crime bill, that her generation is suffering the consequences of the policies that joe biden pushed from decades past. and she said that this party needs to look at an alternative, namely, kamala harris. i want you to hear a little bit of the california senator earlier this morning here in indianapolis. donald trump says he wants to make america great again. well, what does again mean? back before the civil rights act? back before the voting rights act? back before roe v. wade? back before the fair housing act? because we re not going back. we are not going back. and he tells them to go back to where they came from.
are very much right here. we re superficialal. we go to the ballot box thinking is the economy okay, how is the president handling anything related to national security. the women who go to the polls will look at that and tend to favor the incumbent. so democrats, all this infighting on capitol hill as well as the campaign trail is not serving them well. it s interesting because we re also in a new time where these issues are becoming more complex. so voters may react in turn. brian, i want to give you the last word. what do you think? well, i actually read that vanity fair piece and i thought there was a lot to it. i think that kamala harris is somebody that used the first debate to show that she has the ability to go toe to toe with donald trump. that is her whole campaign mantra, talking about the person who can prosecute the case against donald trump. i think she s going to geinto the debates next week and look and have the bearing of a potential person you could envision being