MSNBC's Kornacki says Trump trailing Harris but in better shape than previous two elections

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MSNBC's Steve Kornacki said Tuesday that although former President Trump was trailing Vice President Kamala Harris by three points, the former president had come back from worse in previous elections to win or make it very close.

"If you are a Republican, looking at this poll average coming out of Labor Day, you could take some solace too, because Donald Trump is no stranger to this position, being behind come Labor Day in a presidential election," Kornacki said.

According to a national polling average, Harris leads Trump 48% to 45% roughly two months out from Election Day.

"Back in 2016, on average, he was down by five points against Hillary Clinton coming out of Labor Day. Of course, Trump won in 2016. In 2020, on average, he was trailing Joe Biden by an even wider margin. And yet didn’t come back to win, but he came back to come close, Trump did, in the Electoral College," Kornacki said.

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"Certainly, from Trump’s standpoint here, to be behind three points, in some ways, that might look better than the last two times did," Kornacki added.

He also noted that Democrats would be happy about the national polling average because Harris was leading, a stark contrast to President Biden's poll numbers prior to him dropping out of the race.

CNN's data guru Henry Enten made a similar argument in August, noting