Early voting numbers are “a little scary” for Harris.

Jim Messina, former President Obama's 2012 campaign manager, said Sunday that the early voting numbers for Vice President Harris' campaign were “a little scary.”

Messina noted in an interview on MSNBC's “Inside with Jen Psaki” that Republicans are voting early and at higher rates than in the past, which could change what the vote distribution looks like when early votes come in on election night.

“The early voting numbers are a little scary,” Messina told Psaki, who worked in the Obama and President Biden administrations before becoming an anchor on MSNBC.

“The Republicans didn’t do what they did last time. Last time, Trump said, “Don’t vote early.” And they didn’t. Republicans actually have an advantage in early voting numbers. “When early voting comes, it's going to look a little different than 2020, and that's scary,” Messina said.

However, Messina said he believes Harris will remain strong in the final stretch of the campaign and said he is optimistic about the turnout of young voters and women for Harris.

“But when you look deeper into the numbers, the numbers that matter most to me are two blocs: female voters and young voters, and those two voter blocs are coming out big, Jen. Female voters make up 55 percent of early voters, and over the last 10 days, young voters have spoken out in these battleground states in seemingly historic numbers, and that makes the Harris campaign very, very valuable,” Messina said.

“But if you look at some of the early voting numbers, that has led to a lot of your friends and my friends calling me a panic,” he continued. “And I think it’s true: Republicans did a better job with early voting than they did last time.”

More than 78 million early votes were cast in the 2024 election, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab tally.

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