Clinton, Harris surge against Trump in new poll

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 July 12, 2024

A new poll taken after President Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance on June 27 showed that Democrat voters may be latching onto other candidates in the face of Biden's apparent weakness as a candidate due to mental decline.

The poll by Bendixen & Amandi showed Biden trailing Trump by one point in the popular vote nationally, which should not be a consolation after Biden was more than four points ahead of Trump in 2020's popular vote and barely eked out an electoral victory.

Both Vice President Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton were ahead of Trump in the poll.

A Harris-Trump matchup was 42 to 41%, and a Clinton-Trump matchup was 43 to 41%.

The strongest matchup

The strongest matchup measured in the poll, however, was a Clinton-Harris ticket, which polled 43 to 40% in their favor over Trump.

Considering that Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in 2016 over concerns she was getting too old and experiencing troubling health concerns, it seems unlikely that those numbers are accurate, or would hold for very long.

The two most unlikeable female politicians against the most unlikeable male one (according to Democrats, anyway) would be an interesting matchup--if one that frustrates serious voters just about as much as the current race.

I mean, Clinton is 76, which is only one year younger than Trump. She came across as a scolding, angry hag in 2016, and it's hard to believe she's gotten any better in eight years.

Cackling Kamala is not likely to be much less irritating.

Voters will realize

Before the GOP panics, the popular vote skews Democrat because of liberal California's huge Democrat majority. The Founding Fathers knew a simple majority-rules democracy wouldn't work in the long term.

If the Electoral College eats up 4.4% of the vote as it did in the last election, Trump will still win even if nothing changes between now and then.

But voters are going to realize they don't want to get scolded, condescended to, and whined at for the next four years.

Right now a lot of voters are grabbing onto anyone who can replace Biden, but that won't last.

Trump is actually the lesser of all the evils right now, and in a couple months of these two women will have a majority of voters begging to vote for him.

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