Democrats are reportedly worried about a close race: “People are nervous…and having flashbacks to 2016”

Democrats are concerned 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 panicking because polls were largely flat less than four weeks before the election.

“People are nervous. They know the polls are close,” a source told CNN. “Many of us also have those flashbacks to 2016. We know when things can go wrong and it can still feel fresh.”

On the liberal network Wednesday, CNN reporter Priscilla Alvarez discussed her conversations with Democratic insiders close to the Harris campaign who fear the race remains deadlocked despite the campaign's efforts to reach more voters.

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Democrats were reportedly worried about the 2024 race and had “flashbacks to 2016,” a CNN report said.

“This was a campaign that was described by several Democrats, allies and advisers to the vice president as a feel-good campaign. But what’s also creeping in now is this fear,” Alvarez explained. “The reason for this is that these polls are not really moving. Despite multiple upsets on the battlefield, despite the opportunities she's had in the media, there's still not much movement among voters turning to her rather than former President Donald Trump.”

The Harris campaign is trying to address the pitfalls of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign by reaching out to red, rural counties that Clinton lost in that election, such as Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Alvarez explained.

“The vice president has already visited twice. And that's the kind of strategy they want to use to make up the ground that they believe Hillary Clinton failed to make in 2016. Then there's the…” If you talk to the Democrats, they're always pretty boastful about their performance, and they continue to be, but that has to translate into votes. “With election day getting closer and closer and the polls just deadlocked, there's certainly some nervousness coming out of that,” she continued.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Harris campaign for comment.

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Multiple polls show the race between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is neck-and-neck. (Fox News)

Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons, a former Harris aide, also weighed in on the fears swirling around the vice president's campaign in comments to The Hill on Wednesday.

“Everything is deadlocked and the makeup of the electorate is unrecognizable and there are so many things that are unprecedented,” said Simmons, who previously served as Harris’ communications director.

“We can't look back with any level of security because we didn't have an African-American woman on the ballot. We didn't have a former president running again. We didn't have an election campaign with two assassination attempts. We.” “I haven't replaced a candidate two months before election day,” he added.

“So it’s just hard to know,” Simmons continued. “If you’re not nervous, you’re not paying attention.”

The 2024 presidential election is less than four weeks away, and some states have already opened polls. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Political analyst Mark Halperin called the Harris campaign an “experiment” that is running into problems during his livestreamed show Wednesday.

“In the conversations I have with Trump people and Democrats with data, they are extremely optimistic about Trump's chances in the last 48 hours. Extremely optimistic,” Halperin said.

“Can you win a short campaign with an untested candidate? And what I'm telling you is that she now has a problem in private polls,” he said.

According to the latest Fox News poll from September, Harris leads Trump by two points nationally, a three-point shift since August.

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Fox News' Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.