Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has made a positive first impression after Vice President Kamala Harris announced him as her running mate. But Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), former president Donald Trump\u2019s choice for vice president, is not winning the popularity contest.<\/p>\n
A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll finds 32 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of Vance and 42 percent find him unfavorable, a net favorability rating of -10 points.<\/p>\n
For Walz, 39 percent are favorable and 30 percent are unfavorable, giving him a net positive rating of nine points. It\u2019s still early for both Vance and Walz, with more than one-quarter of Americans saying they don\u2019t have an opinion of each. The two candidates agreed this week to face off in a debate on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n
Within their parties, both men are well-liked. Vance\u2019s net favorability among Republicans is +55 and Walz\u2019s is an even higher +72 among Democrats.<\/p>\n
But Vance struggles beyond typically Republican-leaning groups. He has negative favorable ratings among men (-12), women (-8), and both people under 40 (-22) and 65 and older (-4) \u2014 as well as those in between (-4). Despite Vance deriding Democratic leaders for not having children \u2014 including Harris, who has two stepchildren \u2014 his net favorable rating is -10 among both parents and those without children at home.<\/p>\n
Vance receives net positive ratings among White Christians, including +37 net favorability among White evangelical Protestants, +2 among White non-evangelical Protestants and +6 among White Catholics, though the latter two margins are not statistically significant. He\u2019s also net positive among rural Americans (+13 points), albeit negative among urban (-20) and suburban Americans (-10).<\/p>\n
But on the Democratic ticket, Walz\u2019s ratings are positive among most groups, though not overwhelmingly. He\u2019s net positive 16 points among people under 40 and six points positive among those 40 and older. Walz is seen positively by both men (+9) and women (+9), is net positive among Black people (+41), and Latinos (+15), while White people split roughly down the middle for both candidates.<\/p>\n
As in voting patterns, there are sharp differences among White people by educational attainment: Walz is 18 points positive among White people with college degrees, while Vance is 22 points negative with the same group. And where Vance is nine points positive among White people without bachelor\u2019s degrees, Walz is 11 points negative.<\/p>\n
In a separate question, the Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds 52 percent of Americans approve of Harris\u2019s choice of Walz as running mate and 44 percent disapprove. And 45 percent approve of Trump\u2019s choice of Vance, while 50 percent disapprove. More Democrats approve of Walz\u2019s selection (92 percent) than Republicans approve of Vance as the choice (82 percent).<\/p>\n
Vance, author of \u201cHillbilly Elegy\u201d and a former venture capitalist, has served as a U.S. senator since January 2023. Walz, a former schoolteacher and football coach, served as a U.S. congressman and has been governor since 2019.<\/p>\n
Ratings of these running mate picks are more negative than most past selections. An August 2020 Post-ABC poll found 54 percent of Americans approved of Biden\u2019s selection of Harris and 51 percent approved of Mitt Romney\u2019s selection of Rep. Paul D. Ryan in 2012; roughly 3 in 10 disapproved of each. While Post-ABC surveys didn\u2019t measure reactions to Trump\u2019s 2016 choice of Mike Pence, a July 2016 Gallup poll found 37 percent of voters saying Trump\u2019s selection of Pence was \u201cexcellent\u201d or \u201cpretty good,\u201d while 45 percent said it was \u201conly fair\u201d or \u201cpoor.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Post-ABC-Ipsos poll was conducted online Aug. 9-13 among 2,336 U.S. adults, including 1,901 registered voters. The sample was drawn through the Ipsos KnowledgePanel, an ongoing panel of U.S. households recruited by mail using random sampling methods. The margin of error is plus or minus two percentage points for U.S. adults and 2.5 points among registered voters. Error margins are larger among other subgroups.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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