Top two Veep possibilities are now Warren and Harris
This supports Kos’s position, although for a variety of reasons one needs to worry about this less as Trump continues to implode. More useful would be the polling in swing states.
- 26% say placing Warren on the ticket would make them more likely to vote for Biden; 23% say it’d make them less likely.
- Her positive impact on Biden increased among black and Hispanic voters and those under the age of 45.
- Several potential running mates lack name ID at an early stage in the process.
The poll found other high-profile potential picks such as California Sen. Kamala Harris, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Georgia’s Stacey Abrams would have a similarly marginal impact on the overall electorate. However, Harris, who would make 22 percent of the electorate more likely to vote for Biden, roughly matches Warren’s power with key groups such as voters under the age of 45 and voters in America’s suburbs.
Meanwhile, Klobuchar, who would push 19 percent of voters toward the former vice president, outpaces them both among the oldest voters, a group that has trended away from the president since his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton. Abrams, who would make 16 percent of voters more likely to back Biden, matches Harris’ strength with black voters, who helped fuel Biden’s victories in the primary.
The other names in the survey — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Florida Rep. Val Demings, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto — would start out as a net negative for Biden, though this likely reflects the finding that more than 3 in 5 have never heard of or have no opinion about the five women.
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NEWS: Trump '16 advisers Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie went to the White House last week to sound the alarm to Trump on his swing state polling
— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) May 27, 2020
The meeting set off a scramble among Trump campaign aides to reassure him he was on solid footing >>https://t.co/QKncS9mbzB
The sequence, which was described by four people familiar with what transpired, offered the latest snapshot of Trump’s angst about his battleground state standing. With just five months until the election, the president has been privately expressing concern about his poll numbers and senior Republicans are openly sounding alarms about his swing state prospects.
