With the election only one day away, CNN’s Van Jones told viewers how nervous he was regarding Kamala Harris’ chances of winning Pennsylvania and potentially the overall election.
In the latest RealClearPolitics polling average, former President Trump holds a crucial narrow 0.3% lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania. On “CNN News Central,” Jones expressed his concerns about voter turnout in Philadelphia, Jewish voters overall in Pennsylvania, and Harris’ lack luster campaign strategy only furthered his concerns of a victory.
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“Well, I’m just nervous all the time. So I don’t feel good about nothin’ and I’m not gonna feel good about nothin’ ’til it’s over. I’m worried. Philadelphia is where we’ve gotta run up a big margin, but Philly overall has been trending down, not in terms of going toward the Republicans, just people not getting out to vote,” Jones explained. “And so you got people out there like Pastor Carl Day, who’s got a bunch of young men with him knockin’ on doors, trying to get people to come out. It’s a bigger, tougher fight in Philly to get that vote count up than it has been in the past. That has me worried.”
According to twenty elected Democrat leaders in Pennsylvania, Politico reported that they fear Harris’ aides don’t have the personal connections with influential individuals in the community to help turnout the vote. They suggested that the Harris staff in Pennsylvania was failing behind their goals of voter turnout especially amongst non-white voters.
“The other thing that has me worried is that the Jewish vote in the suburban areas, [President Joe] Biden won the Jewish vote by 70%, 70-30 last time. Some polls show Kamala at 50-50. That is 70,000 votes we’ve bled away. That is the margin for victory,” Van Jones said. “So you got groups like Zioness, Amanda Berman out there fighting to get the Jewish vote back on board … It is door-to-door, bruised knuckles, tired legs, a lot of coffee and I’m nervous and worried and I’m not gonna be any way until this thing gets called.”
“The other thing that makes me nervous is in 2016 we had a big star-studded event right on the edge of the election and we lost the state. I don’t think people understand working people sometimes have to choose: Am I gonna go to the big cool concert this week and pay for babysitting for that or am I gonna try to figure out a way to get to the polls? I don’t like these big star-studded events,” Jones said. “I can’t show where they’ve helped us win. In fact, probably helped us lose last time. I don’t want people going to concerts. I want people knockin’ on doors, I want people out there fighting for this thing. I’m just nervous, nervous, nervous.”