vice president harris received more votes Despite her loss, she has a better chance of winning the presidency than some of her Democratic Party alternatives, according to the latest SAY24 and YouGov polls.
In the poll, 46% of registered voters said their vote went to the vice president, and 48% said the same for President-elect Trump.
By comparison, the poll found that if other Democratic candidates were put into a hypothetical presidential race with Trump, they would also lose, but by a larger margin than the vice president.
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President Biden withdrew from the race in late July following his disastrous debate defeat against Trump, but his approval rating was 41%, compared to 50% for the president-elect.
High-profile Democratic governors, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, received 38% and 37% of virtual votes, respectively, to Trump's 48% and 44%.
Trump's electoral victory and impending return to the White House has reeled from Democrats, who also lost both the House and Senate to Republicans. Debate continues within the party over the causes of this year's poll struggles, with some centrists saying it has moved too far to the left and liberals saying it has not moved left enough. .
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested earlier this month that her party might have retained the White House if Biden had withdrawn from the campaign sooner.
“If the president had withdrawn earlier, there might have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi told the New York Times. “There was an expectation that if the president left office, there would be a primary.”
The SAY24/YouGov poll was conducted among 5,473 people between November 6 and 12 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.
