Roughly three-quarters of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said Vice President Kamala Harris should be nominated for the top of their ticket in November, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.
Harris' campaign is younger than most of my groceries, while the next generation has been born and mastered sarcasm in the shadow of Trump's seemingly endless campaign. Being tied this early should be devastating news for 45.
You and me both. The way the whole party has coalesced around Harris is a happy surprise. There has been so much infighting for so long and Kamala wasn't really mentioned in all the push to remove Biden, and there was no consensus around anyone. I was sure it would be nothing but infighting until the convention and then begrudging acceptance.
Exactly. Democrats are falling in line and that's to be expected. They already voted for her as VP, so they should have no objection to her as President.
But independents and swing voters should still be undecided on her. Some might lean slightly towards her because she is younger and not a senile fascist, but overall, it should not be expected that they will support her at this stage.
I refuse to believe there's any swing voters in this election. Absolutely no one is 50/50 on Trump. The media just loves to parrot old talking points without any evidence these people actually exist. Stats are so easily fungible that you can make them say anything you want.
TL;DR because they're paid to say it's going to be good for them while, in actuality, if the candidates were tied on election day Democrats would lose big due to gerrymandering and the electoral college.
Because she's polling higher than Biden. That's the reason. In a few days we'll have better data. If equal numbers continues into a trend then that's good because she's already brought people back on side. Obviously if her numbers go above Trump that's just great news all around. But this is breathing life into what was a dead campaign.
538, by design, lags behind the latest polling, because they're intentionally smoothing out the numbers. Trends - if they're real - will take time to express themselves as a result.
The key takeaway here is that these numbers are still very good for the Dems, because Trump is at his absolute ceiling in popularity. He's coming off of a strong debate performance and nearly being killed. That's as good as it gets for him. The American public isn't going to grow to like him as they get to know him more; he's dominated political discourse non-stop for the last eight years. There's no room left for him to grow.
Kamala, on the other hand, has a lot of room to grow. That doesn't guarantee that she will, but it puts all the initiative in her hands. There's still time for the Dems to play this wrong, but also a lot of space for them to play it right.
I'd like to know what the Lemmings that didn't endorse Biden stepping down are thinking now.
I was one of them, so I'll answer your question as honestly as I can. I was against it only because the argument seemed like the next phase of anti-Biden (stealth pro-Trump) propaganda:
Sleepy Joe -> Hunter's Laptop -> "Genocide Joe" -> Biden's too old -> Biden had one bad debate and should drop out
While some of the criticism was perfectly valid, the fact that it was being constantly drummed and amplified by the "usual suspects" prevented me from hearing the argument in anything but bad faith and left me to assume the intention was to inject chaos into the democratic side of the election. I still feel the "usual suspects" were operating as described, but broken clocks and all that, you know?
Now that it's happened (regardless of whether I feel Biden was forced into it) and everyone is actually coalescing around VP Harris, I'm willing to admit I was wrong.
While I wasn't excited for Biden (nothing against him, he's done a great job and I'm sure would have continued to do so), I am energized by having someone younger and more energetic who will continue the work started in the current administration. It appears I'm not alone in that and am glad to see support for Harris coming in.
As long as we don't nitpick, single-issue, and in-fight ourselves to defeat between now and November and actually line up behind the presumed candidate, I'm optimistic Harris is the right choice.
I was skeptical of the party’s ability to muster up a good candidate with Biden dropping out this late. And most of all, I wanted it to be Biden’s decision, not his party abandoning him.
Harris is coming out strong and gives me great confidence, though. So I respect Biden’s decision and am excited to vote for Harris, while I’d have settled to vote for Biden.
Before Biden exited the race, a Jul 2 poll by Reuters/Ipsos had Harris losing to Trump by 1 point. At that time, the only Democrat polled who beat Trump was Michelle Obama, who had an 11 point advantage over the former president.