Kamala Harris Polls Better Than Biden In These Key Voting Groups: HarrisX Pollster

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On "Forbes Newsroom," HarrisX Founder and CEO Dritan Nesho spoke about a new HarrisX/Forbes poll showing where Vice President Kamala Harris polls better than President Biden.

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00:00Trump got the RNC bump, as you said, but does this shake up this last minute shake up less

00:07than a month from the DNC? Does that give Kamala Harris and Democrats a bump? Did this

00:12move energize the base? Because yesterday, Kamala Harris did see record-breaking fundraising

00:18numbers.

00:19Yeah, I think that where the change matters is in terms of energizing the Democratic base

00:28and getting out the vote. And that's what you're seeing with the close to $50 million

00:34raised within less than 24 hours after the announcement. Does it make a difference for

00:41independent voters, for undecided voters, for the state of the horse race? That's something

00:47that we're going to look at closely over the course of this week. What we know so far is

00:53that Vice President Harris's numbers have tracked those of President Biden for months

00:59now. And she has performed similarly, if not slightly worse, than President Biden has.

01:09Both of their approvals are underwater, deeply underwater at 38%. It's exactly the same.

01:16However, Kamala does have higher approval amongst young Democrats, 18 to 34-year-old,

01:2362%, compared to Biden's 55%. And then slightly better approval amongst Hispanic Democrats,

01:3068% to 62%. She also seems to win undecideds by a better margin than Biden. And we see

01:42good traction for her amongst undecided independents, 59% to 41% against Trump. So she wins undecided

01:52independents when you ask them, which way will you break or lean? And very importantly,

01:57suburban women, which, as I mentioned, are a key battleground in a historically Democratic

02:03voter group. So amongst the undecideds, she does better. But again, she starts at a disadvantage

02:11compared to Trump. And her numbers are similar to Biden. So it might be a little bit of a case of

02:21too similar and too late, that she's too similar to President Biden or is seen as owning many of

02:29the same issue positions as he has. She only has about three months worth of runway, which is not

02:39a lot of time to build her up. There's a question mark in terms of the momentum that she will get

02:46with the Democratic base. And our polling indicates clearly that her selection alleviates concerns

02:55amongst the Democratic base and that the level of concern among for their candidate drops from

03:02the mid-30s to roughly the mid-20s between Biden and Kamala. But we will see how this polling

03:11matures and stabilizes over the next few days and see whether or not Kamala can get real traction

03:18compared to Trump. Or as I said, is it a case of too similar, too late?

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