CNN Poll: 73% of Democrats Want Someone Other Than Kamala Harris as Nominee Wendell Husebø 24 Jul 2024
Almost three-fourths of registered Democrats want someone other than Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s nominee, a CNN poll found Wednesday.
The finding exposes a lack of enthusiasm for Harris as the party’s de facto nominee, who appears to be hand-selected by top Democrats.
By simply choosing Harris for the nomination instead of holding a democratic process, Democrats will nullify about 14 million votes cast during the Democrat primaries for President Joe Biden.
The poll asked Democrats/Democrat-leaning independents who are registered to vote and prefer the Democrat Party to nominate a candidate other than Harris in 2024. “Is there a specific person you’d like to see the Democratic Party nominate for president, or do you just want to see someone besides Kamala Harris?” the poll asked.
Respondents replied as such:
Just someone besides Kamala Harris: 73 percent
A specific person (NET) (specify): 27 percent
Michelle Obama: 5 percent
Gavin Newsom: 4 percent
Pete Buttigieg: 3 percent
Josh Shapiro: 3 percent
Gretchen Whitmer: 3 percent
Bernie Sanders: 3 percent
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: 2 percent
J.B. Pritzker: 1 percent
The poll sampled 1,631 voters from July 22-23, 2024, with a ± three percent margin of error. The survey is one of the first published surveys after Biden endorsed Harris for president.
Harris appeared to slightly improve upon Biden’s lead among voters ages 18-34 but not enough to overcome former President Donald Trump’s inroads with the demographic, another sign of a lack of enthusiasm for Harris, the poll found.
Biden won the young vote — under the age of 35 — by 21 points in 2020. In contrast, Harris underperforms Biden, according to the CNN poll. She only holds a nine-point lead, 12 points worse than Biden’s performance.
Trump appeared to make inroads with the youngest demographic, making it difficult for Harris to perform as well as Biden, according to CNN analyst Harry Enten.
In 2024, young voters are split (49-49 percent) between identifying as Republicans and Democrats. In 2020, according to Pew Research, 56 percent of young voters identified as Democrats, while 39 percent identified as Republicans.
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