Pak Sahafat – In an analysis, “Yahoo News” analyzed why the popularity of “Kamala Harris” is very low compared to other vice presidents in the United States and considered Joe Biden’s situation to be effective in this matter.
According to the international group of Pak Sahafat news agency, The low approval rating of US Vice President Kamala Harris has hit a record, and according to the results of an NBC poll conducted in June, Harris has a minus 17 score, which is the lowest score recorded for a US Vice President in the history of this poll.
While calling Vice President Joe Biden the worst vice president in the history of this poll has made news, “Yahoo News” in an analysis titled “Why is Kamala Harris so unpopular in the polls?” Wrote: About a thousand people participated in this poll, the results of which showed that 49 percent of voters have a negative view of Harris, while 32 percent have a positive view of Vice Biden.
According to this report, Harris made history in 2021 by achieving this position as the first black and the first woman of Indian origin. Jonathan Hanson, a political scientist and lecturer at the University of Michigan, believes that Harris is stepping into new territory.
According to NBC polls, in October 2019, views on Donald Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, were 38 percent negative and 34 percent positive. And in December 2010, opinions about Joe Biden, the vice president of the then US President Barack Obama, were 34% positive versus 33% negative.
In this regard, Hanson said that experts say that Harris’ tenure has been full of difficult tasks. He added: He was asked to focus on immigration, which is politically sensitive and difficult to work on. Therefore, it can be argued that he was not given a favorable opportunity to create a series of positive and visible public achievements.
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Why does Harris’ situation matter?
In April, Joe Biden announced his plans to run for a second term, which would make him the oldest president of the United States. Biden’s announcement drew attention to Harris as his running mate and second in command.
According to Yahoo News analysis, as the 2024 US presidential election approaches, Harris has become the target of the Republicans. “A vote for President Biden is actually a vote for President Harris,” former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who is seeking the Republican nomination, said in June. We are competing against Kamala Harris.
Kelly Dittmar, director of research at the Center on Women and American Politics, said there is a concerted effort by Republicans to draw attention to Harris to lower her polling numbers. Dietmar added: “If you’re always demonizing Kamala Harris, in messaging and social media and all of that, her popularity will generally decrease.”
Opinions
In the final part of the Yahoo News analysis, various views expressed in the media and by personalities about Harris, his condition and his performance are mentioned.
Lauren Leeder, The Hill’s congressional news website: Kamala Harris is not the perfect vice president — she’s sometimes been her own worst enemy in trying to get a good staff and tough public appearances. But it’s hard to rationalize the amount of negative attention she’s getting, and it’s hard not to see her similarities to the only woman — Hillary Clinton [former secretary of state] — who’s ever come this close to our nation’s highest office. She also endured years of misinformation and sexist attacks that influenced the results of the 2016 election.
Harris’ results in the polls could affect the 2024 election
Democratic strategist Antoine Seawright told Yahoo News: If you ask young people on college campuses around the country that Harris visited during the midterm elections, I guarantee they’ll have a different answer.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: When it mattered most, Vice President Harris cast the deciding vote on some of the most historic bills of the modern era, from the Bailout to the Deflation Act. She has performed her duties in the best way.