Kamala Harris is seeing a surge in her approval rating among Americans just days after President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race and endorsed her, according to an Abc News/Ipsos poll.
The vice president’s approval rating has jumped to 43%, with 42% viewing her unfavorably. Just a week ago, the percentages were 35% and 46% respectively. Among independents, 44% have a favorable opinion of her, up from 28% a week ago, while 40% have an unfavorable opinion, slightly down from last week’s 47%.
Harris raised $200 million in less than a week as a candidate for President of the United States, a staggering amount that the campaign points to as evidence of the excitement surrounding her campaign just 100 days before the election. “The momentum and energy for Vice President Harris are real, as are the fundamentals of this race: these elections will be very tight and decided by a small number of voters in a few states,” wrote ‘Harris for President’ communications director Michael Tyler in a fundraising announcement.
Meanwhile, sparks are flying with Trump. “We have a battle ahead of us, and we are the underdogs in this race, okay? But this is a campaign fueled by the people, and now we have momentum,” Vice President Kamala Harris said, calling Donald Trump a “bully” who wants to restrict “many basic rights” and criticizing him for not wanting to debate with her immediately. “I hope he reconsiders his decision because we have a lot to talk about,” she said.
And the Minnesota tycoon chimed in: “This November, the American people will reject Kamala Harris’s radical liberal extremism with a huge victory.”
The Republican candidate in the White House race targeted several positions taken by Harris during the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, some of which were later retracted, such as the desire to ban fracking or substantially revise the criminal justice system. Calling Harris a “radical leftist lunatic,” Trump also attacked her and President Joe Biden’s handling of illegal immigration, inflation, and crime.
In his 90-minute speech, the populist billionaire reaffirmed his promise to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history and end the taxation of tips, while also repeating that his defeat in 2020 was the result of “rigged” elections.
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