New polling data from Monmouth University finds a monumental jump in “enthusiasm” around this year’s presidential election among Democrats in conjunction with the ascent of Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now the party’s presidential pick for this year’s election.
In June, 46 percent of Democrats said they were enthusiastic about what was then expected to be a rematch in November between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, now the official Republican nominee for the year. And then, Biden withdrew from this year’s election at the end of July, endorsing Harris — and now, this August set of numbers finds 85 percent of Democrats enthusiastic for the election.
That level of enthusiasm is now higher than the recorded enthusiasm among Republicans, which was at 71 percent in June and is 71 percent now.
Enthusiasm among independents, meanwhile, surged, moving from 48 percent in June to 68 percent. In other words, it appears abundantly obvious that the replacement at the front of the Democratic ticket of Biden with Harris majorly reshaped the 2024 race. Harris has been campaigning in electoral battleground states to large crowds — which were really there rather than just the product of artificial intelligence software creating images, as Trump argued online.
Trump, in turn, has resorted to claiming that polling with sub-optimal results for his campaign is somehow slanted against him.
“The NYT/Siena Poll has way over sampled Democrat voters, and way under sampled people who voted for me in 2020. The Fake News York Times insisted they do this so that it would look as bad as possible in comparison to their last poll, which was very good for me, way up, and made the very biased Times look “stupid,” just like in 2016. I am actually up on the San Francisco Liberal, despite all of Crooked Media,” Trump claimed. There is no indication of some kind of conspiracy behind the referenced polling from The New York Times to make Trump look worse off in the election.
