{"id":20485,"date":"2024-07-03T11:48:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/as-questions-about-biden-mount-kamala-harris-sports-better-polls-more-appearances-puff-pieces\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:48:16","slug":"as-questions-about-biden-mount-kamala-harris-sports-better-polls-more-appearances-puff-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/as-questions-about-biden-mount-kamala-harris-sports-better-polls-more-appearances-puff-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"As questions about Biden mount, Kamala Harris sports better polls, more appearances, puff pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Biden\u2019s lackluster debate performance has turned the spotlight to Vice President Kamala Harris, who has started to show off a more visible campaign role as November approaches.<\/p>\n

Harris suddenly figures to play a defining role in the campaign down the stretch, a turnaround for a vice president that many critics have panned as a potential liability for Democrats in November.<\/p>\n

The negativity surrounding Harris even garnered calls for the vice president to step away from the campaign as recently as March, and one Washington Post column called on Harris to \u2018step aside\u2019 for \u2018the country\u2019s sake.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, some have speculated Harris could take over at the top of the ticket after Biden\u2019s debate performance. The vice president\u2019s visibility already started to increase before last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Media outlets have taken notice, leading to an avalanche of positive press for the vice president in recent months. Harris was called \u2018Biden\u2019s secret weapon in North Carolina\u2019 in a report in The Hill, which noted the vice president made her fifth trip to the battleground state last month and has led the outreach to Black communities, a largely Democratic demographic Biden has struggled to court in his rematch with former President Trump.<\/p>\n

\u2018She\u2019s one of the administration\u2019s best spokespeople to the Black community,\u2019 Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons told The Hill. \u2018The president has been making the case to the Black community as well, but obviously the VP has a different kind of appeal.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

A February report in the Los Angeles Times declared that Harris had finally \u2018found her groove,\u2019 citing the vice president\u2019s appeal to younger voters and her voice on issues such as abortion.<\/p>\n

\u2018She\u2019s become a top fundraiser for Democrats, an emissary to groups that are lukewarm toward President Biden \u2014 in particular Black and younger voters \u2014 and emerged as the administration\u2019s most forceful voice on abortion, women\u2019s health and, as Harris frames it, the threat Trump poses to freedom and individual choice,\u2019 the story said.<\/p>\n

A few months later, a New York Times report declared the \u2018Harris moment has arrived,\u2019 calling her the \u2018perfect messenger\u2019 for the campaign for issues such as \u2018reproductive rights.\u2019<\/p>\n

Some polls have seemingly caught on to the vice president\u2019s strengthening position, with a Politico\/Morning Consult poll conducted last month finding the vice president gaining strength with key demographics, including a 67% favorable rating among Black voters.<\/p>\n

The poll represented a turnaround for Harris, who had trailed Biden with Black voters going back to the 2020 primary. But she now leads the president in the crucial Democratic voting bloc by four points.<\/p>\n

\u2018She\u2019s been good at energizing active bases that Democrats have really needed \u2014 young Black voters, Black women. These are constituencies that Democrats can never take for granted,\u2019 Democratic strategist Trip Yang told Politico.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019 visibility has only increased since the debate performance, with the vice president serving as a defender of the president across multiple networks in the minutes after the debate. She has also been active on the campaign trail, making stops in Las Vegas, Utah, and Southern California in the days following the debate.<\/p>\n

While many prominent Democrats have publicly backed Biden remaining the party\u2019s nominee, there have been growing cries for Harris to take over at the top of the ticket. A New York Times opinion column the day after the debate declared that Harris \u2018could win this election,\u2019 while a Vox Media column asked \u2018what about Kamala?\u2019<\/p>\n

Former U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio became one of the first nationally prominent Democrats to publicly advocate for Harris to take over for Biden.<\/p>\n

\u2018We have to rip the band aid off!\u00a0 Too much is at stake,\u2019 Ryan said in a post on X Tuesday, adding that Harris has \u2018significantly grown into her job.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018She will destroy Trump in debate, highlight choice issue, energize our base, bring back young voters and give us generational change,\u2019 said Ryan, who lost his 2022 Senate bid to Republican JD Vance. \u2018It\u2019s time!\u2019<\/p>\n

Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett Tuesday became the first actively-serving Democrat on Capitol Hill to call on Biden to step aside from the presidential race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Our overriding consideration must be who has the best hope of saving our democracy from an authoritarian takeover by a criminal and his gang,\u2019 he said in a statement. \u2018Too much is at stake to risk a Trump victory \u2013 too great a risk to assume that what could not be turned around in a year, what was not turned around in the debate, can be turned around now.\u2019<\/p>\n

Unlike Ryan, Doggett did not say whether he preferred Harris or another Democrat to replace Biden.<\/p>\n

The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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