Not going to lie, this sounds like cope. They undershot Trump's actual support twice, now the pollsters are trying to make a more educated guess.
Yeah it's not great that an absolute dumbass is tied to Kamala but what did the DNC think would happen? They've tried "immensely unpopular neoliberal woman" before and it didn't work, why would it work now?
Kamala Harris is the fourth most popular politician out of the whole spectrum, as of right now.