Democrats are worried Vice President Harris is failing to make inroads with men in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
A string of polls out this week show that while Harris is outperforming former President Trump with women, she is not moving the needle with male voters, in some cases trailing the former president by more than a dozen points in battleground state polls.
This week, a New York Times/Siena College survey of likely male voters showed Trump with a sizable lead nationally — 51 percent to 40 percent — over Harris. Democratic strategists have also sounded the alarm that she needs to increase her numbers with Black and Latino men if she wants to defeat Trump, who has increased his numbers with both voting blocs.
A USA Today/Suffolk University poll also out earlier this week, for example, showed that in the battleground state of Arizona, 51 percent of Latino men between the ages of 18-34 support Trump, while 39 percent back Harris. But Trump’s support increases among Latino men ages 35-49 in the state: 57 percent said they support Trump, while 37 percent back Harris.
None of this is a new problem, in that Harris has had a gap with Trump among male voters since President Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her.
But Democrats are getting more worried about the persistent shortfall with just weeks to go before the election.
“I don’t think people understand what a big problem we have on our hands with men,” one prominent Democratic strategist said. “Black men, Hispanic men, men in general.
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