Polls show Harris has still not garnered as much support for her campaign as Biden had at this point in 2020.
Vice President Kamala Harris is struggling to gain as much support in the polls as Joe Biden had at this point in the election cycle in 2020, according to polling.
Since launching her campaign in late July, Harris has been credited with rebuilding momentum among Democrats who were not enthusiastic about Biden. For example, the latest poll by The Economist and YouGov, conducted between August 17 and 20, showed that 71 percent of Democrats said they were either very or extremely enthusiastic about voting for her for president in the upcoming election.
That is compared to the same poll from between July 13 and 16, before Biden dropped out, which showed only 43 percent of Democrats were either very or extremely enthusiastic about voting for the incumbent for president in November.
Harris also drew more than 2.4 million donors in her first 11 days at the top of the Democratic ticket—nearly 200,000 more contributors than during Biden’s entire year-plus-long campaign, Bloomberg reported.
But despite the momentum she has built, polls show she has still not garnered as much support for her campaign as Biden had at this point in 2020.
