A new Economist/YouGov poll shows that 48 percent of Americans disapprove of Harris’ job performance while only 46 percent expressed approval. This is in line with a flurry of recent surveys and puts her well behind Biden, whom the Real Clear average of polls has at 51 percent approval and 43 percent disapproval.
According to Democratic strategists who talked to The Post and The Hill, the party is quite concerned about the midterms.
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“As of right now, I think she has the potential of doing more harm than good for some of these candidates,” one strategist told The Hill, referring to Harris.
“My sense is she’ll probably raise a lot of money and maybe she’ll go to some specific districts, but they’ll have to be really strategic with her.”
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An early test of just how strategic Democrats plan to be with the veep is the run-up to the Sept. 14 recall election in her home state of California, where she has vowed to campaign for embattled Gov. Gavin Newsom, but has offered no set plans about doing so.
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Under normal circumstances, Harris, the first woman to be elected vice president, would be a natural fit for campaigning on both the recall race and the 2022 midterms, but staunch scrutiny over her handling of the border crisis as well as dysfunction in her office have potentially made her politically toxic.
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In June, Harris visited sites near the US border with Mexico after pressure built for her to go for months. At that time, she snapped at reporters who asked why she hadn’t trekked to the border given that she was put in charge of the crisis there.
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In one interview, she told NBC’s Lester Holt that “we’ve been to the border.” When he pointed out that she had not gone as vice president, she whipped back at him with, “And I haven’t been to Europe, And I mean, I don’t understand the point that you’re making. I’m not discounting the importance of the border.”
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One Democratic strategist told The Post, “This is less about the upcoming midterm and more about the future. There was a hope that she would grow into the role, but she keeps making mistakes, it’s like ‘Groundhog Day’ with her mistakes.
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“If Biden doesn’t run [in 2024], is there comfort with her as the nominee? I’m not sure.”
Republicans are eager to tie Harris to Democratic candidates across the country over the next year as they did in 2020, especially after a tweet last summer urging her followers to help bail out rioters and arsonists in Minneapolis amid the George Floyd protests.
The GOP needs to flip a mere five seats from blue to red to retake the House of Representatives next year — a razor-thin margin that clearly has some Democrats on edge about which way the vice president may tip the balance.
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