What Democrats’ excitement for Harris means and what it doesn’t
- More Democrats now say this election is about hope about what might happen, rather than fear.
- Democrats are excited about Kamala Harris, but she trails GOP nominee Donald Trump on some key issues among the electorate overall.
As Vice President Kamala Harris prepares to accept her party’s nomination for president, most Democrats are excited about her, and since she first became the presumptive nominee, more of them have said they’ll definitely vote.
With this excitement, there’s also a more optimistic outlook. We’ve been asking whether in general voters see this election as more about hope for what could happen or fear for what might happen. For Democrats, hope now eclipses fear.
While Democrats may be excited and strongly backing Harris, she still faces some of the same deficits with the broader electorate that President Biden did. Harris runs behind former President Donald Trump on some key issues in this election, like the economy.
Harris may take the opportunity to re-introduce herself to the country — a third of voters say they don’t yet know what she stands for — and try to convince voters she would handle the issues that matter to them better than Trump.
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