New Poll Crushes Kamala Harris’ Wildest Dreams

If Vice President Kamala Harris ever had hopes of seeking her boss’s job one day, they have been all but extinguished by new polls showing Americans would rather have President Joe Biden than her.

Biden, who remains glaringly unpopular, still musters more enthusiasm from voters who were asked in a recent poll about Harris’s chances of defeating President Donald Trump if she were to be elevated to the position of Democratic presidential nominee. The idea of Harris leading the ticket has been floated before, including by major figures in the Democratic Party like David Axelrod who begged President Biden to refuse a second term for the good of the country. However, both poll respondents and elected Democrats believe Harris wouldn’t be a sure bet to replace him if it came to that.

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The Western Journal reported on a new poll by Politico and Morning Consult where Americans were asked about Harris’s chances of beating Trump in a head-to-head matchup. Just a third of respondents said the former California attorney general has what it takes to come out on top. More bruising is that just three in five Democrats said they would vote for her. The true bottoming-out, however, is that just 25% of independents would.

Harris, who has already gotten snappy in public and private when challenged about her unpopularity, will have to look hard for a bright side in these numbers. She earned 42% of support when asked who better displays leadership, besting Trump, but still sits underwater when asked about her favorability; 42% of voters prefer her while 52% said they do not.

Typically, vice presidents enjoy higher approval ratings than their superiors due to the lack of controversy and attention their office draws. Harris is the exception to that rule: During her first year in office, Harris’s approval rating had plummeted to just 28%, a record low for any vice president at that point in their first term. After the Democrat accused a fact-checking organization of overlooking her “great approval ratings,” she was once again fact-checked that she was citing results more than 100 polls ago.

“Well, there are polls that also say I have great approval ratings,” Harris told ABC News in August of 2023. “I think the point that has to be made is that there are attempts to create distractions away from the accomplishments of our administration.” That prompted PolitiFact to fire back that “public polling results do not support her assertion.”

“At the time the ABC News interview aired, FiveThirtyEight’s average was 39.7% approving of Harris’ performance and 52.3% disapproving, for a net of 12.6 percentage points ‘underwater,’” PolitiFact wrote in 2023. “Meanwhile, the most recent poll in which more people approved than disapproved of Harris’ performance was from October 2021 and was more than 100 polls ago. That poll, conducted by Saint Leo University, found Harris above water by 2 percentage points, which was within the poll’s 3-point margin of error.”

Supporters of the vice president have suggested that biases around race and gender may be playing a factor in detractors’ criticism, but that analysis fails to consider the many notable gaffes Harris has committed in front of the cameras. During a summit on artificial intelligence, she summed up the groundbreaking technology as a “fancy thing” made up of “two letters.” She enthusiastically repeated the phrase “space cooperation” ad nauseam while hosting a Mongolian leader.

When the White House put her in charge of defending Biden’s decision to seek a second term, Harris delivered a doozy of a defense, saying the 81-year-old president is “very much alive.”

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