Issues & Insights’ Terry Jones calls this “buyer’s remorse,” but that doesn’t fit. Literally no one bought Kamala Harris as the Democrat presidential nominee — by design. Democrats never gave their voters a choice other than Joe Biden in the primaries, and then threw out 50 state contests to anoint Harris as the nominee once the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline got exposed.
Small wonder, then, that over a third of Democrats in the new I&I/TIPP poll don’t feel much “joy” over Harris as their candidate. And even more of them believe they got stuck with a weaker candidate than Democrats could have fielded:
Jones starts with the full poll result and then goes into the partisan demos:
For the first question, 58% said they either “agree strongly” (41%) or “agree somewhat” (17%). (Numbers on all calculations might not add up exactly due to rounding). At the same time, just 32%…
