“It just doesn’t feel like a race Harris is going to lose”

Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday night that he had a “feeling” that Vice President Harris would win the election in November.

“I don't like to predict elections. I would just say it just doesn't feel like Harris is going to lose this campaign,” Carville told CNN's Anderson Cooper on “AC360.”

“But that's just a feeling. That's just a feeling,” he added.

Carville, who previously served as an adviser to former President Clinton, noted that most recent presidential elections have been close until the end – with the exception of the 2008 election. The longtime strategist predicted that the 2024 race will be similar: The polls will remain close until a candidate finally prevails.

The least likely scenario, he said, would be a tie in the seven key swing states with a score of 4-3 for each candidate.

“The polls are tight, and I'm not convinced it's going to be close on Election Day,” Carville said when Cooper asked why the race seemed so close, even though former President Trump has echoed unverified rumors about Haitian migrants “eating pets” and endorsed North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson (R) amid the gubernatorial controversy. “I'll say this: If there are seven swing states, the least likely scenario is that there are four or three swing states.”

“I could be wrong, but it will go one way or the other,” he added. “I really believe that. That's usually the case in these elections.”

Harris and Trump remain in a neck-and-neck race, with the vote count likely to be crucial in seven key swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Although Harris is doing better than President Biden in national polls, she is still trailing Trump by less than a percentage point in some key swing states, according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ polling average. Nationally, the vice president is 3.6 points ahead of her Republican opponent, at 50.3 percent to 46.7 percent, according to the index.

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