Democrats reportedly anxious about tight race: 'People are nervous... having flashbacks to 2016'
Democrats are worried about the state of the 2024 presidential race and fear the election could be a repeat of 2016, according to a new report.
Sources close to Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign reportedly told CNN that Democrats were panicked because polls have largely remained stagnant with less than four weeks to go until the election.
"People are nervous. They know the polls are tight," one source told CNN. "A lot of us are having these flashbacks to 2016, too. We know when it can go the wrong way, and it can still feel fresh."
On the liberal network on Wednesday, CNN reporter Priscilla Alvarez discussed her conversations with Democratic insiders close to the Harris campaign who are worried that the race remains deadlocked, despite the campaign's efforts to reach more voters.
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"This has been a campaign that was described by multiple Democrats, allies, aides to the vice president as a good vibes campaign. But what’s also creeping in now is that anxiety," Alvarez explained. "The reason for that is because these polls are not really moving. Despite multiple battleground blitzes, despite the opportunities she has had across media outlets, there is still not a lot of movement from voters who are moving more towards her versus former President Donald Trump."
The Harris campaign is trying to address pitfalls from Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign in its outreach to red, rural districts that Clinton lost in that election, like Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Alvarez explained.
"The vice president has already visited twice. And so that is the type of strategy that they’re trying to deploy to try to make up that ground where