President Joe Biden has been hammered with low approval ratings by voters, but Vice President Kamala Harris isn’t having much better luck with voters’ ratings of her job performance and future, according to a new poll.
A Politico-Morning Consult poll released on Wednesday shows Harris has a net disapproval rating of 52%-42% and that most voters do not believe she would be likely to win the presidency if she were the Democratic nominee, 57%-34%.
Voters surveyed also do not believe she would be a good president if elected, 51%-40%, and are split on whether Harris should be replaced on the Democratic ticket in November. A narrow plurality, 39%, said she should not be replaced as the vice presidential nominee, while 36% said she should, and the remaining 26% did not know or had no opinion.
Among Democrats, only 59% said they believe Harris would be likely to win the presidency if she were the Democratic nominee, but 74% of Democrats believe she would make a good president.
Harris already teased her strategy for combating former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee while speaking with Politico earlier this week. The vice president explained she believes Trump will pick an “enabler.”
“What we know is that Donald Trump wants an enabler. He doesn’t want a governing partner. He doesn’t want another Mike Pence, and I think that is clear,” Harris said.
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Trump is slated to pick his vice presidential nominee by the Republican National Convention next month in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Harris has agreed to a vice presidential debate with Trump’s unnamed running mate on either July 23 or Aug. 13 hosted by CBS News, but the Trump campaign has yet to accept or decline the offer.
Should Biden not run in 2028 if he loses in November, a plurality of Democratic voters, 41%, think Harris should be the nominee. She leads other contenders listed, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at 15% and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) at 14%, among others, according to the poll.