Van Jones admits on left-leaning CNN he’s ‘nervous’ about Kamala Harris’s chances

Veteran left-wing political analyst Van Jones said he is “nervous” about Vice President Kamala Harris’s prospects in Tuesday’s election — as her campaign focused on untested celebrity endorsements.

Jones, a former special adviser to President Barack Obama, said Harris’s “star-studded” campaign events in the days before the election were similar to the final days of Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful White House bid in 2016.

The political analyst admitted he was skeptical that his final swing-state push, which included celebrities like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey, would actually convince working-class people to vote blue.

“The other thing that bothers me is that in 2016, we had a big star-studded event right before the election and we lost the state,” Jones said on CNN on Monday.

“I don’t think people understand, working people have to choose sometimes. ‘Am I going to go to big, nice concerts and have her pay for babysitting or am I going to find a way to get to the polls?’ I don’t like these big, star-studded events,” he said.

“I don’t want people to go to concerts. I want people out there knocking on doors, I want people out there fighting for this thing,” he said.

“I’m just nervous, nervous,” he said.

Perry performed with Harris at her campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Monday.

Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, The Roots, Fat Joe and others performed for the Democratic nominee in Philadelphia that night, where Winfrey also appeared. NBC Philadelphia reported,

Other artists who have performed with Harris on the campaign trail include Bruce Springsteen and rapper Megan Thee Stallion.

Experts said Pennsylvania could be the state that ultimately decides which candidate will be the next President of the United States for the next four years.

Trump and Harris are in a standoff in the Keystone State. According to the final New York Times/Siena poll,

Jones was also concerned about how Harris would fare among Jewish voters in Pennsylvania, especially in Philadelphia where he said President Biden claimed a significant 70% of the Jewish vote in 2020.

He said, “Some surveys have shown Kamala at 50-50.” “That’s 70,000 votes that we swayed, that’s the margin of victory,” Jones said.

Fellow CNN commentator Scott Jennings predicted that whichever candidate won Pennsylvania would be in the White House in January.