Kamala Harris Is The Most Unpopular Vice President In 50 Years, Polls Show
By Ashe Schow - The Daily Wire
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Vice President Kamala Harris has only been in office for six months, but she is already the most unpopular vice president since at least the 1970s, according to recent polls.
The Los Angeles Times on Monday reported that as of July 27, “45% of registered voters had a favorable opinion of Harris and 48% had an unfavorable opinion — a net rating of -3 percentage points, according to a Times average.”
The most recent YouGov tracking poll shows that Harris’ unfavorability rating has hit 49%, while her favorability rating sits at just 45%.
Harris’ unpopularity is worse than former Vice President Mike Pence’s was six months into his tenure, according to The Telegraph. The outlet reported that around this same time in 2017, Pence’s unfavorability rating sat at 41.9%, while his favorability rating was 42.1%. Pence may have been helped by a massive media focus on then-President Donald Trump and false accusations that he was a Russian agent who colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.
During the Biden administration, much more focus has been on Harris since she’s the first black female vice president. President Joe Biden, however, has put her in charge of some nearly impossible tasks, including handling the situation on the southern border. As the Times reported, Harris’ approval ratings started to decline after she was assigned the task, though Biden also received a small decline in job approval.
“The dip followed an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, where Harris bristled at a question about why she had not visited the border, triggering criticism. Comments about immigration and the United States’ southern border during visits to Mexico and Guatemala have also sparked controversy,” the outlet reported.
Holt had asked Harris if she had “any plans to visit the border,” which received a hostile and odd remark from the vice president.
“At some point, you know, we are going to the border, we’ve been to the border,” Harris said, as previously reported by The Daily Wire. “So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border. We’ve been to the border. We’ve been to the border.”
Holt then said: “You haven’t been to the border.”
Harris responded: “And I haven’t been to Europe.”
Shortly after this exchange, Harris visited Mexico and Guatemala, where she continued to make remarks that garnered ridicule. In Guatemala, the international press asked her why she hadn’t visited the U.S.-Mexico border. She was specifically asked why she hadn’t visited the border, to which Harris said the immigration situation is a high priority, while continuing to say she wouldn’t visit the border.
“On the issue of Republican’s political attacks, or criticism, or even concerns, the reason I’m here in Guatemala as my first trip as vice president of the United States, is because this is one of our highest priorities,” Harris claimed. “And I came here to be here on the ground, to speak with the leader of this nation, around what we can do in a way that is significant, is tangible, and has real results. And I will continue to be focused on that kind of work as opposed to grand gestures.”
Later, when Spanish media asked when she planned to visit the border, Harris became irritated, The Daily Wire reported, insisting she had “said I’m going to the border.” When the reporter asked her “when” she would go to the border, Harris replied: “I’m not finished. I’ve said I’m going to the border.”
The View Co-Hosts Argue Kamala Harris Poll Numbers Are Tanking Because She’s a Black Woman, Meghan McCain Disagrees
By Leia Idliby - Mediaite
The hosts of The View debated why Vice President Kamala Harris’ poll numbers have been tanking — the majority attributing it to her race and gender, while Meghan McCain disputed the connection.
“Well, let’s see — what is different about her that we haven’t seen before? What could it be?” Joy Behar cracked when Whoopi Goldberg asked why she thinks Harris has the “lowest approval rating of any vice president since the 70s.”
“Oh, that’s right. She’s a woman and she’s Black. I almost forgot,” she continued on Monday’s The View. “You know, let’s tell the truth here. I mean, it seems like there’s this bombardment of criticism on her and [Joe] Biden coming from the right as if they have been in office for four years. They’ve only been there for what? Six months? … Ok, eight months. Eight months. What are they supposed to do? Change the whole world? Cure — get a cure for cancer? Solve the problem of climate change? Deal with immigration?”
Behar went on to urge Harris critics to “back off,” adding that she’s been handed the difficult task of dealing with immigration
McCain disputed the claim that her rating was “all about race and gender,” saying that Harris “stumbled when she was running for president,” noting that she dropped out before the Iowa caucuses.
“I mean, I think it’s interesting the tone from the media on her leadership on immigration because when there were kids in cages on the border under President [Donald] Trump, it was horrific and now we aren’t even allowed to send journalists in to film it and she’s in charge, and it’s ok,” she added. “It’s just a different person in charge of what’s happening on the border. She’s made a lot of tactical errors and you don’t have to just take it from me because I’m obviously a biased actor given that I’m a Republican. But places like Politico and Axios reported how disappointed the White House was in her first foreign trip.”
She went on to claim that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) “would put her in the ground” if he were to run against Harris in a presidential election, adding that “Republicans would love nothing more than to run against Vice President Harris.”
Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines both agreed with Behar’s take that Harris’ approval ratings are largely tanking because she is the first Black woman to hold the position of vice president, yet Haines added that there are some “fair criticisms” at play.
“I think Vice President Harris has definitely had some missteps,” Haines admitted, adding that there are legitimate criticisms of Harris regarding her time as vice president.
“You can’t remove that whenever your representation — whenever you’re the first woman or the first woman of color — people aren’t used to seeing that, and I think there’s some bias there that can’t be erased from the equation, but at the end of the day, Mike Pence had a higher rating and I look at him, and he just looked the part. Because then when you heard him speak in some of those things, he undid that,” she said. “I think there are some optics at play, but overall I think there is some fair criticism here.”
