New Poll Numbers Show Voters Confident Kamala Harris Can Serve as President if Joe Biden Cannot Complete Term

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New Poll Numbers Show Voters Confident Kamala Harris Can Serve as President if Joe Biden Cannot Complete Term

by Xara Aziz May 24, 2024

https://shinemycrown.com/new-poll-numbers-show-voters-confident-kamala-harris-can-serve-as-president-if-joe-biden-cannot-complete-term/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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A growing percentage of voters in key swing states express confidence in Vice President Kamala Harris’ ability to serve as president if President Joe Biden cannot complete his term, potentially diminishing a Republican critique concerning Mr. Biden’s age.

A poll conducted by Morning Consult for Bloomberg News earlier this month reveals that nearly half of swing state voters—48 percent—now trust Ms. Harris to assume the presidency if necessary.

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Despite this, Ms. Harris still lags significantly behind her and Mr. Biden’s likely Republican opponent, former president Donald Trump, in a hypothetical matchup. The poll shows Mr. Trump leading Ms. Harris by seven points.

Nonetheless, respondents favor Ms. Harris as their top choice to challenge Mr. Trump if Mr. Biden is unable to complete the 2024 campaign. She is preferred over other potential Democratic candidates such as Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.

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[BOSSHOG]

1. Good God Almighty

Trump “served” four years and people are confident in Kamala Harris? Mike Pence, Dick Cheney, Dan bird man for junior. Spiro Agnew.

My confidence in VP Harris is off the charts where it should be.

[patphil]

2. My wife and I had a conversation about this months ago, and came to the conclusion that Harris would do a good job.

She has matured as VP, and can easily handle the job if President Joe isn't able to.
A VP candidate should always be assessed for their capacity to step up, and she's certainly equal to the task.
Not that I want that to happen, but you have to think it through when you vote.
You're voting for two people, and two jobs, but the potential must be there for President.

[oasis]

3. More exposure for our Veep.

Kamala can get it done.

[Sympthsical]

4. That's a weird website

Every other word is a hyperlink to unrelated articles from itself. The word "trust" links to Lupita Nyong’o's dating life rumors. A lot of the links in the article are just celebrity gossip.

So odd. Like it was half-written by AI.

No link to the poll, so I rummaged around. This article contains a link to the actual poll:

https://www.wispolitics.com/2024/bloomberg-news-morning-consult-poll-half-of-swing-state-voters-fear-violence-around-us-election/

It's 6,000 pages long, but I searched through. Where you look at potential Biden replacements, the lead answer in everyone else except Harris is Don't Know/No Opinion. On Harris, 45% support, 46% oppose, 9% don't know. Pritzker and Moore are at 50+% "don't know" with Buttigieg at 31%. So, the article is some spin for an answer that is more or less, "Voters split on the question, not sure who they'd support to replace Biden if it came to that."

Harris has the most recognition/most opinions given, so with her there's a clearer answer (which is tied). With the other candidates, people haven't really thought about it. You could easily rewrite the sentence to "Harris faces strongest opposition to replace Biden" and that would be equally true according to the data set. The next strongest overt opposition is Newsom at 38%, and even he has 31% "no opinion" on him.

[Silent Type]

5. No doubt Harris can step in. Not sure 48% is comforting, but it is among swing states.

[Celerity]

6. the actual poll

https://pro-assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2024/05/Bloomberg-Election-Tracking-Wave-8-Toplines-Crosstabs.pdf

[littlemissmartypants]

11. Thanks. ❤️

[MustLoveBeagles]

12. Thanks

[calimary]

19. Page 5 works for me.

The negatives are pretty high for Biden and the Dems, but WAY higher for trump and the GOP.

[Quixote1818]

7. The Biden camp needs to play this up more, especially near the election date. nt

[NBachers]

8. I think Kamala Harris would be a kick-ass President; and her abilities are severely under-estimated. I also think she'd

be welcome where we want her to be welcome on the world stage.

[Demovictory9]

9. Of course

[multigraincracker]

10. I always vote for female democratic

candidates. Lover our Michigan Leaders.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Well, OBVIOUSLY she'd be better than tfg ... but then, that's an absurdly low bar.

I remember years ago hearing people ask "is America ready for a Black President?" and my answer was "the rest of the world is long past ready for America to have a Black President, it's America that's behind". That's even more true for a woman President. America is an embarrassment to the West in that regard -- or a trophy on Putin's mantle, realistically.

[MustLoveBeagles]

14. I think Kamala Harris would make a fine President

[BaronChocula]

15. Though it's not an approval rating

48% is hitting it out of the park in this very cynical day and age when one sizeable portion of the electorate has put their faith in an multiply indicted conman and rapist.

[mitch96]

16. She would be a great Prez and the repukes heads would explode..nt

[calimary]

20. "...repukes heads would explode"? THAT ALONE would work for me!

[JustAnotherGen]

17. It's about god damn time!

I'm team Biden - and he wouldn't have selected her if he didn't think she was up to the formidable task.

[republianmushroom]

18. She would be a good president. IMO