During an appearance on CNN early Saturday morning, election expert Larry Sabato, founder of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, claimed Donald Trump may have finally doomed his chances with moderate and independent voters in the waning days before voters head to the polls on Tuesday.
Speaking with CNN host Amara Walker, Sabato was asked if Trump's comments about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), stating she should "face guns," was likely the last straw for the few voters who were still on the fence.
"Is he worried about losing undecided or moderate voters? Should he be?" the CNN host asked.
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"Oh, absolutely he should be," Sabato shot back. "He went way too far on Liz Cheney."
"I think it's having an impact. The Harris campaign is saying it is having an impact on the remaining undecided voters," he continued, before elaborating, "I dont know how they can track them, there are so few of them relatively speaking, but apparently they say that it's caused these undecideds to break towards Kamala Harris."
"Now we'll see when we analyze the data from a nonpartisan perspective but it couldn't help him," he added. "This is extreme rhetoric from anybody, much less a presidential candidate and surely Trump's staff encouraged him to walk some of that back, but he didn't. He doubled down, that's Donald Trump, which reminds people what the next four years are going to look like. What they are going to look like if Donald Trump is back in the White House."
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