Mark Penn: Republican Party Is Now Working-Class Party, Democrats Are Professional Upper-Class Party

BRET BAIER, SPECIAL REPORT: I'm going to put up the New York Times, uh, Siena battleground state polls here, and, um, they also caused, caused waves this morning, and you saw the betting markets, you know, all kind of moves going on, and people texting me like, is this a major shift? In the bottom of that poll, it says across these final polls, white Democrats were 16% likelier to respond than white Republicans. That's a larger disparity than our earlier polls this year, and it's not much better than our final polls in 2020, even with the pandemic over. It raises the possibility that the polls could underestimate Mr. Trump yet again.

This is at the bottom of the poll in the little fine print, and it kind of encapsulates the whole thing that we're looking at here, right?

MARK PENN, HARRIS POLL: Well, and I think that's the big question you, that you really have going into this. Is there Trump enthusiasm, and is there Trump shyness when it comes to polls? That non-response number by Republicans is serious that they don't want to give their views in polls. Look, I think there's no question that there have been some registration changes, but no matter how close the polls are, the underlying change is the Republican Party is now a working class party.

The Democratic Party is now a professional upper-class party, and that is what we're seeing play itself out, and we don't know the result because we don't know if the professional upper class is really going to win combined with the minority vote versus the working class vote with a lot of senior men, particularly, you know, downscale men who have shifted to Trump. There's a battle here. This is not a homogeneous country or a homogeneous situation by any means. That's why it's so difficult for these polls to call it.