CNN Host Chris Wallace Says Kamala Harris Winning Would ‘Be a Miracle’ Given Disapproval Ratings for Biden

As the polls began to close Tuesday evening, CNN host Chris Wallace shared the opinion that Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party need to pull off “a miracle” to win the presidential election over Donald Trump, given the country’s majority negative opinion of incumbent President Biden observed in the network’s own early exit polls.

“When you see current voters saying, by a three-to-one margin, that they are dissatisfied with the country… with the present conditions in the country. In conventional terms, it would be a miracle that Kamala Harris could win with that kind of headwind,” Wallace said during a panel conversation on the network Tuesday evening. “Remember she was part of the administration. The Biden-Harris administration was 41% approved, 58% disapproved. That’s not even close to 50%.

“If she is able to overcome those numbers and still win this election, then she has done a remarkable job of somehow separating herself — that she’s part of the solution, not part of the problem,” Wallace continued.

Wallace, a career cable news anchor who has been with CNN since 2022, gave his comments roughly 50 minutes before the first polls closed on the East Coast. The panel, led by CNN anchor Jake Tapper, was discussing the network’s own early exit polling data of voters. Of the other figures included, polled individuals answered how they were feeling about “the way things are going in the U.S.,” with 7% answering enthusiastic, 19% satisfied, 43% dissatisfied and 29% angry. On whether “America’s best days are in the future or in the past,” 61% said they were in the future, while 34% answered they were in the past.