The early signs last week were that Vice President Harris\u2019s replacement of President Biden as the Democrats\u2019 2024 standard-bearer appeared to modestly increase Democrats\u2019 hopes of winning.<\/p>\n
The evidence since then has only affirmed that. The signs continue to improve for the Democratic ticket \u2014 particularly when it comes to Harris\u2019s image.<\/p>\n
A long-unpopular vice president has gotten a second look from voters now that the spotlight is trained on her. And at least for now, the polls suggest that Americans are both warming to her and liking her significantly more than they like Biden.<\/p>\n
Multiple polls in recent days tell that tale.<\/p>\n
An ABC News\/Ipsos poll on Sunday showed Harris\u2019s favorable rating at 43 percent. That\u2019s eight points higher than her rating last month, and 11 points higher than Biden\u2019s last month.<\/p>\n
A Wall Street Journal poll Friday showed 46 percent of registered voters liked Harris \u2014 11 points higher than her showing almost a month ago, and 12 points higher than Biden\u2019s at that time.<\/p>\n
And Fox News polls on Friday in four key Midwestern and Rust Belt states \u2014 Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin \u2014 showed Harris\u2019s favorable rating averaging 49 percent, which is eight points higher than Biden\u2019s current number.<\/p>\n
Combine that with earlier CNN and New York Times\/Siena College polling, and it all suggests that Harris has increased favorable views of the top of the Democratic ticket by at least the high single digits.<\/p>\n
Some of the more interesting findings from those polls:<\/p>\n
The ABC\/Ipsos poll is the first quality poll in years to show more Americans viewing her positively (43 percent) than negatively (42 percent), though the difference is well within the margin of error.<\/span> Perhaps most striking in the Times\/Siena poll is how much Harris appears to have made the Democratic ticket more palatable to less-reliable voters who could defect from the Democrats or sit out the 2024 election.<\/p>\n While just 74 percent of Biden 2020 voters liked him, 88 percent of Biden 2020 voters liked Harris. And the poll showed her being viewed favorably by about twice as many people who didn\u2019t vote in 2020 (46 percent vs. 24 percent) and who currently support a candidate besides her, Donald Trump or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (33 percent vs. 17 percent).<\/p>\n All of which suggests Harris could not only stem the bleeding of Biden\u2019s support, but she could appeal to less-likely voters and claw back some voters who went for left-leaning third-party candidates.<\/p>\n As with all early polling conducted in the days after the Democrats\u2019 switcheroo, it\u2019s worth emphasizing that it\u2019s early. Harris is surely in a honeymoon period that might not last, particularly as attention turns to some of the positions she took during her 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also important to note that, even with the improved image of the top of the Democratic ticket, Harris\u2019s favorable numbers are mostly similar to Trump\u2019s in these polls. Trump appears to have gotten a bit of his own bump after the assassination attempt against him and the Republican National Convention, and he was already generally more popular than he was during his presidency. And the race both nationally and in swing states is very close.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s little question that, at least for now, Harris has put the Democratic ticket back on the map for lots of the most problematic voting groups for Democrats. Democrats looked like they were going to have to win lots of voters who didn\u2019t like Biden and who didn\u2019t seem to have much reason to vote blue, beyond dislike of Trump. Many of those voters today see a more viable option in Harris.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The early signs last week were that Vice President Harris\u2019s replacement of President Biden as the Democrats\u2019 2024 standard-bearer appeared to modestly increase Democrats\u2019 hopes of winning. The evidence since then has only affirmed that. The signs continue to improve for the Democratic ticket \u2014 particularly when it comes to Harris\u2019s image. A long-unpopular vice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThat same poll showed Harris improving by 16 points with independents \u2014 from 28 percent favorable in mid-July to 44 percent favorable today.<\/span>
\nThe Wall Street Journal poll showed that the percentage who viewed her \u201cvery favorably\u201d more than doubled from 15 percent last month to 35 percent now.<\/span>
\nThe Fox polls showed Harris\u2019s favorable rating improving on Biden\u2019s by an average 11 points with independents, 11 points with women, 17 points among voters under 35 and 15 points among people of color (though that last number includes only Michigan and Pennsylvania).<\/span>
\nThe Times\/Siena poll showed her improving on Biden\u2019s early July numbers by six points with non-college Whites, nine points with Black voters, 11 percent with independents, 12 percent with women and 30 points with voters under 30.<\/span>
\nThe earlier CNN poll showed somewhat smaller increases vs. Biden in late June \u2014 but increases nonetheless. She gained five points with independents, eight points with women, and 12 points among people of color and voters under 35.<\/span><\/p>\n