Vice President Kamala Harris got some very welcome news on Sunday in the form of a new NBC News poll that found her leading Donald Trump by five points nationally. But perhaps the most significant finding in the survey of 1,000 likely voters conducted from Sept. 13-17 is her massive increase in popularity since taking over for Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee in July.
Compared to July, when Harris had a 32% approval and 50% disapproval rating (nearly identical to Biden), the new poll finds 48% of respondents view her positively and 45% negatively. The three point net positive approval stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s net negative 13 point result that has remained static over the same period.
As NBC News National Political Correspondent—and data geek—Steve Kornacki and Meet the Press host Kristen Welker explained on Sunday, that 16 point turnaround is the largest favorability increase for any politician NBC has measured since George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
LuvKrahft on
Can’t fake that kinda funk, yall!
Looking better and better by the day.
Now we just gotta vote Blue in overwhelming numbers.
Agnos on
* The media have gone on a Kamala Harris binge since the vice president moved swiftly to replace President Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s 2024 candidate of choice, giving her the most positive coverage in modern history.
84% favorable coverage to trump 89% negative coverage is manufactured consent.
reck1265 on
People asked for more interviews, there you go.
account_for_yaoi on
I think that her relative hiddenness(as is the case for most Veeps) before running made people cast a ‘default’ vote of unapproval in the polls. Now that she’s in the spotlight, people can easily learn about her temperament and politics.
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Polls don’t vote, people do. The Democrats and democracy need us to turn up in Nov to end Trump’s stoppable march to America’s destruction. VOTE Harris/Walz 2024 please. Harris is competent and smart by not taking voters for granted. She needs our well earned support.
>And yet, the Harris team is not taking anything for granted. In response to the poll results, which still fall within the margin of error, top Harris campaign adviser Brian Fallon tweeted, Still an underdog in this race.
jeffwinger_esq on
Just another data point, along with the ridiculous fundraising numbers, that point to an actual landslide.
You can’t convince me this thing is as close as 2020. You can’t.
TrooperJohn on
The polls have been moving steadily in her favor over time. There have been a few bumps and jigs and jags, but the overall trend, since she first entered the race, has been a gradual but undeniable shift in her favor.
Lots of things can still happen, but her campaign has been unusually skillful, and she has navigated every challenge effectively so far.
I’m reasonably optimistic she will do well in November. I wish I could say the same about the election process itself. But it’s best to approach that imminent chaos from a position of strength, and Harris seems to be accomplishing that.
onceinawhile222 on
I don’t understand. Donald has clearly communicated his message to America. Another Marxist, Communist. Fascist, Islamic, racist, Buddhist and vegetarian poll just to make Donald look bad.
coolcool23 on
Meanwhile in the conservative sub “she’s so unlikable.”
NetflixIsGr8 on
RealClearPolls and 538 (poll aggregates) have her less than or equal to where Hillary was at this point in her campaign. That terrifies me.
This election is going to be so close on the electoral map.
Anybody else still find it stupid 9/11 gave Bush a huge favorability jump?
Zestyclose-Floor1175 on
Well, we are fighting a terrorist so that makes sense.
cxr303 on
Well, the orange chicken had a 9/11 death toll daily for a long time.
I guess it makes sense that she would get the boost.
Zealousideal-Day7385 on
No surprise her favorables are rising as people see more of her. I think Harris is a warm and likable presence and her decision to focus on things like joy and moving forward past the chaos are no doubt starting to reasonate.
Honestly, I wish Kamala was leading by 20…but pragmatically speaking? I’m strangely okay that the polls are so tight.
I think this election will be decided on which candidate does better with turnout- and hopefully tight polls will prevent people from feeling like Harris has this in the bag and not bothering to vote. Complacency is the enemy of progress.
GrafZeppelin127 on
If she pulls this off, the Biden/Kamala handoff will be seen as one of the most deft political maneuvers in U.S. election history.
surle on
Makes sense. They were both responding to a terrorist attack by people who hate America.
ACrask on
Every single media outlet. All of them. Every graph no matter the subject is “nEcK AnD neCk”. Sick and tired of it.
Good. I hope she wins by a landslide and it’s a complete surprise for maga dipshits.
I want a Harris/Walz sign but need a camera on it first, chances of it gettinga vandalized or stolen in my small Iowa town is too great. I know other people feel the same, we don’t need to brandish flags and our candidate’s shit everywhere. We show our support at the ballot box.
Kannigget on
This is good, but do not get complacent. Keep donating to the Democrats. Hillary Clinton lost the election even though she was winning in the polls and won the popular vote. The Electoral College puts the Democrats at a disadvantage.
Independent-Bug-9352 on
Side note since he’s referenced in this article, but Brian Fallon who was press secretary to Clinton’s campaign being a senior advisor to Harris… Concerns me if I’m being honest. I recall him being a total douche in 2016 and missing the mark. Oh well, hoping for the best.
baka-tari on
Great news for Harris! Now, go vote!
dwitman on
Interesting that the debate that fueled a lot of this bump was also on 9/11.
Daxnu on
That’s nice and I don’t care, voting for her and would vote for anyone or anything before I would vote for what ever the hell Trump is
Frogacuda on
In both cases, these approval changes were a reflection of what the public saw as meeting the moment; being tossed unexpectedly into a surprising and unprecedented circumstance and doing what was seen as a good job.
Obviously Bush made a lot of decisions at that time that are retroactively viewed as mistakes or outright lies, but people didn’t see that at the time.
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The debate was a critical moment: she showed she was calm, assertive, and presidential. The fact that Trump was melting down live, to the point where even his most fervent supporters said the debate was at best “tied” (it was not), served as a beautiful contrast to Harris’ poise.
Want to know which of the two can be manipulated easily by Putin and nefarious billionaires? Just look at who took every nugget of bait on that debate stage.
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Vice President Kamala Harris got some very welcome news on Sunday in the form of a new NBC News poll that found her leading Donald Trump by five points nationally. But perhaps the most significant finding in the survey of 1,000 likely voters conducted from Sept. 13-17 is her massive increase in popularity since taking over for Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee in July.
Compared to July, when Harris had a 32% approval and 50% disapproval rating (nearly identical to Biden), the new poll finds 48% of respondents view her positively and 45% negatively. The three point net positive approval stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s net negative 13 point result that has remained static over the same period.
As NBC News National Political Correspondent—and data geek—Steve Kornacki and Meet the Press host Kristen Welker explained on Sunday, that 16 point turnaround is the largest favorability increase for any politician NBC has measured since George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Can’t fake that kinda funk, yall!
Looking better and better by the day.
Now we just gotta vote Blue in overwhelming numbers.
* The media have gone on a Kamala Harris binge since the vice president moved swiftly to replace President Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s 2024 candidate of choice, giving her the most positive coverage in modern history.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/unprecedented-positive-media-for-harris-89-negative-for-trump/ar-AA1p44yn
Maybe that is why?
84% favorable coverage to trump 89% negative coverage is manufactured consent.
People asked for more interviews, there you go.
I think that her relative hiddenness(as is the case for most Veeps) before running made people cast a ‘default’ vote of unapproval in the polls. Now that she’s in the spotlight, people can easily learn about her temperament and politics.
Polls don’t vote, people do. The Democrats and democracy need us to turn up in Nov to end Trump’s stoppable march to America’s destruction. VOTE Harris/Walz 2024 please. Harris is competent and smart by not taking voters for granted. She needs our well earned support.
>And yet, the Harris team is not taking anything for granted. In response to the poll results, which still fall within the margin of error, top Harris campaign adviser Brian Fallon tweeted, Still an underdog in this race.
Just another data point, along with the ridiculous fundraising numbers, that point to an actual landslide.
You can’t convince me this thing is as close as 2020. You can’t.
The polls have been moving steadily in her favor over time. There have been a few bumps and jigs and jags, but the overall trend, since she first entered the race, has been a gradual but undeniable shift in her favor.
Lots of things can still happen, but her campaign has been unusually skillful, and she has navigated every challenge effectively so far.
I’m reasonably optimistic she will do well in November. I wish I could say the same about the election process itself. But it’s best to approach that imminent chaos from a position of strength, and Harris seems to be accomplishing that.
I don’t understand. Donald has clearly communicated his message to America. Another Marxist, Communist. Fascist, Islamic, racist, Buddhist and vegetarian poll just to make Donald look bad.
Meanwhile in the conservative sub “she’s so unlikable.”
RealClearPolls and 538 (poll aggregates) have her less than or equal to where Hillary was at this point in her campaign. That terrifies me.
This election is going to be so close on the electoral map.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/
Anybody else still find it stupid 9/11 gave Bush a huge favorability jump?
Well, we are fighting a terrorist so that makes sense.
Well, the orange chicken had a 9/11 death toll daily for a long time.
I guess it makes sense that she would get the boost.
No surprise her favorables are rising as people see more of her. I think Harris is a warm and likable presence and her decision to focus on things like joy and moving forward past the chaos are no doubt starting to reasonate.
Honestly, I wish Kamala was leading by 20…but pragmatically speaking? I’m strangely okay that the polls are so tight.
I think this election will be decided on which candidate does better with turnout- and hopefully tight polls will prevent people from feeling like Harris has this in the bag and not bothering to vote. Complacency is the enemy of progress.
If she pulls this off, the Biden/Kamala handoff will be seen as one of the most deft political maneuvers in U.S. election history.
Makes sense. They were both responding to a terrorist attack by people who hate America.
Every single media outlet. All of them. Every graph no matter the subject is “nEcK AnD neCk”. Sick and tired of it.
He’s gonna stage another attempt today, isn’t he?
[Register to vote](https://vote.gov/register) before you lose your voice!
Good. I hope she wins by a landslide and it’s a complete surprise for maga dipshits.
I want a Harris/Walz sign but need a camera on it first, chances of it gettinga vandalized or stolen in my small Iowa town is too great. I know other people feel the same, we don’t need to brandish flags and our candidate’s shit everywhere. We show our support at the ballot box.
This is good, but do not get complacent. Keep donating to the Democrats. Hillary Clinton lost the election even though she was winning in the polls and won the popular vote. The Electoral College puts the Democrats at a disadvantage.
Side note since he’s referenced in this article, but Brian Fallon who was press secretary to Clinton’s campaign being a senior advisor to Harris… Concerns me if I’m being honest. I recall him being a total douche in 2016 and missing the mark. Oh well, hoping for the best.
Great news for Harris! Now, go vote!
Interesting that the debate that fueled a lot of this bump was also on 9/11.
That’s nice and I don’t care, voting for her and would vote for anyone or anything before I would vote for what ever the hell Trump is
In both cases, these approval changes were a reflection of what the public saw as meeting the moment; being tossed unexpectedly into a surprising and unprecedented circumstance and doing what was seen as a good job.
Obviously Bush made a lot of decisions at that time that are retroactively viewed as mistakes or outright lies, but people didn’t see that at the time.
The debate was a critical moment: she showed she was calm, assertive, and presidential. The fact that Trump was melting down live, to the point where even his most fervent supporters said the debate was at best “tied” (it was not), served as a beautiful contrast to Harris’ poise.
Want to know which of the two can be manipulated easily by Putin and nefarious billionaires? Just look at who took every nugget of bait on that debate stage.