Nearly three-quarters of Democrats want someone other than Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s nominee, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday.
The poll revealed a lack of enthusiasm for Harris, who appears to have been directly selected by Democratic Party officials, as the party’s de facto nominee.
By bypassing the democratic process and simply selecting Harris as their nominee, Democrats would be invalidating roughly 14 million votes cast in the Democratic primary against President Joe Biden.
The poll asked Democrats and Democratic-leaning Independents who are registered to vote and would like to see the Democratic Party nominate a candidate other than Harris for president in 2024, “Is there someone in particular you would like to see the Democratic Party nominate for president, or would you just like to see someone other than Kamala Harris?”
The respondent answered as follows:
- Anyone other than Kamala Harris: 73 percent
- Specially Designated Persons (NET) (designated): 27 percent
- Michelle Obama: 5 percent
- Gavin Newsom: 4 percent
- Pete Buttigieg: 3 percent
- Josh Shapiro: Three percent.
- Gretchen Whitmer: 3 percent
- Bernie Sanders: 3 percent
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: 2 percent
- JB Pritzker: 1 percent.
The poll was conducted among 1,631 voters on July 22-23, 2024, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The survey is one of the first to be released after Biden endorsed Harris as his running mate.
Harris appears to have slightly expanded Biden’s lead among voters aged 18 to 34, but has not yet overturned former President Donald Trump’s gains in that age group, another sign of a lack of enthusiasm for her, the poll found.
Biden won the vote among people under 35 by 21 points in 2020. In contrast, Harris is performing worse than Biden, according to the CNN poll, with Harris leading by just nine points, 12 points worse than Biden.
CNN analyst Harry Enten said Trump appears to have won over the youngest demographics, making it difficult for Harris to garner the same level of support as Biden.
In 2024, young voters are split between Republicans and Democrats (49-49 percent). In 2020, 56 percent of young voters were Democrats and 39 percent were Republicans, according to Pew Research.
Wendell Fsebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former war room analyst for the Republican National Committee. He is the author of: The Politics of Slave MoralityFollow Wendell “Bat” @WendellHusebø or The truth of society @WendellHusebo.
