Pollster Richard Baris denies speculation that Harris could have won given more campaign time

Pollster Richard Baris, the director of Big Data Poll, rejected speculation on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris could have won the 2024 election if she was able to campaign for another week or two.

Former President Donald Trump won the election early Wednesday morning, after the Associated Press called Wisconsin for the Republican. Trump also won the critical swing states of Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. 

Arizona and Nevada have not been called so far, but Trump is past the 270 Electoral College votes needed for the presidency.

Baris said that polling data did not support the narrative that Harris would have won the election if she had more time, or that large amounts of Republican women were actually voting for her instead of Trump. He also noted that while some things might have calmed down for the vice president in a week, Trump would have still shone as the "preferred choice."

"If you would have given her another week, the narrative about the Puerto Rican comment ... would have died back down, and it would have returned to where it was before, which is that Trump was a preferred choice," Baris said on the "Just The News, No Noise" TV show. "Trump has done this job before. He did it well. Americans believe he did it well. People have to understand, we were through four years of this. Now there are a lot of voters out there that felt they were sold a bill of goods and they were scammed.

"There is something called the presidential bar," he continued. "You have to let voters know. You have to put them at ease. You have to lay their fears that you can do this job. And she spent the last few weeks talking about Puerto Rico and talking about islands and talking about Hitler. Americans are over this. They're over it. And she never convinced them that she was competent enough to do this job."

Harris conceded the race on Wednesday afternoon, and urged her supporters to accept the election results, but promised to continue fighting for "freedom, for opportunity, and for fairness and the dignity of all people."

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.