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The more you get to know Kamala Harris .
Two big media polls dropped today, and both of them look like bad news for Democrats — especially Harris. Despite the shrieking hysteria coming from the campaign and the media (but I repeat myself!) about how dangerous Donald Trump is, voters like Trump more . and Kamala less.
Let’s start with the Wall Street Journal poll, where Trump has “opened a narrow lead” among registered voters, who usually lean a bit more Democrat. Duane mentioned this poll at the end of his post about the CNN town hall, but it’s worth exploring a little further:
The national survey finds that Trump is leading Harris by 2 percentage points, 47% to 45%, compared with a Harris lead of 2 points in the Journal’s August survey on a ballot that includes third-party and independent candidates. Both leads are within the polls’ margins of error, meaning that either candidate could actually be ahead.
The survey suggests that a barrage of negative advertising in the campaign and the performance of the candidates themselves have undermined some of the positive impressions of Harris that voters developed after she replaced President Biden as the presumed and then confirmed Democratic nominee.
Views of Harris have turned more negative since August, when equal shares of voters viewed her favorably and unfavorably. Now, the unfavorable views are dominant by 8 percentage points, 53% to 45%. Moreover, voters give Harris her worst job rating as vice president in the three times the Journal has asked about it since July, with 42% approving and 54% disapproving of her performance.
When given only a choice between Trump and Harris, Trump has a three-point lead. That may reflect his growing favorability; respondents gave him a 52/48 approval rating for his term, a sharp contrast from Harris’ -12. Trump also has large leads over Harris on most of the specific issues in the election, leads which have grown in the two months since the last WSJ poll.
