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In an unlikely turn of events, the wildly unpopular Vice President — whose low ratings have been a key justification for Joe Biden staying in the race — is currently more popular than the President.
Kamala Harris is beating Biden in favourability by 43% to 38% and her unfavourability score, 48%, is 10 points lower than the President’s in a new AP-NORC poll. And his disastrous debate performance doesn’t even appear to be the key issue driving his unpopularity. The same poll in January found Biden doing only a few points better, at 57% unfavourability and 40% favourability. Harris’s unfavourability is on a slight decline after staying above 50% for more than two years.
This reality — that Biden is getting his clock cleaned by one of the least popular vice presidents in American history — appears to finally be setting in. Biden reportedly asked aides this week whether Harris could win, before he reported having tested positive for Covid and jetted off into the sunset (or Delaware).
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