What's next? That George W. Bush is pro-open-borders? Or John McCain?
A newly-released survey indicates that the vast majority of registered voters believe Vice President Kamala Harris is a supporter of "open borders."
Sixty-nine percent of voters believe Harris is for open borders, further demonstrating her vulnerability on immigration as she begins her presidential candidacy, according to a Harvard-Harris poll released on Tuesday. Voters across the political spectrum also generally agree with the statement, with 56% of Democrats, 82% of Republicans and 69% of independents responding that they believe the vice president supports open border policies.
A mere 31% of voters said they believe Harris stood against open borders, including only 44% of Democrats. Respondents also identified immigration as the second most important issue facing the country, beating out the economy, healthcare, crime and numerous other national concerns.
At the same time, respondents to the Harvard-Harris survey overwhelmingly opposed the idea of open borders, with 68% of voters answering that they stood against such policies. When split by party, Republicans and independents opposed the idea by wide margins, and Democrats were practically even, with 51% answering they supported open borders while 49% said they opposed them.
The survey found additional support for hawkish border policies among the U.S. population, with 73% of voters favoring a policy goal to "seal the border, and stop the migrant invasion." A majority of Republicans, independents and even Democrats agreed with this policy statement.
One plus for Kumala is that most of the disaffected Democrats who had turned to RFKJr. have now come back to support her. Which means that most of RFKJr.'s remaining support are probably Trump-leaning voters.
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris joining the presidential race could dramatically weaken independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign.
Kennedy was polling above 12% against former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden before Harris became the Democratic presumptive nominee, according to the RealClearPolling average. Enten, on "CNN Newsroom," said Kennedy likely will not garner anywhere near this level of support now that Harris is in the running because his key constituency is dwindling as a result.
"Throughout this entire cycle, we've been pointing out that there were a ton of voters who dislike both Biden and Donald Trump. So pre-RNC, right, 20% in The New York Times polling, 20% in Ipsos polling. Look at where we are today," Enten said. "Look how dramatically these numbers have dropped. Look at this: New York Times down to 8% who say they disliked Harris and Trump. How about Ipsos? The same pattern, 7%. This is very different now than what we saw prior ... So the fact is, voters are much more apt to at least like one of the candidates. And I think that's part of the reason why voters are much more likely to turn out because if you dislike both major party candidates, why actually turn out and vote?"
"But that was what RFK Jr. was counting on ... I guess, on some level," host Kate Bolduan said.
We'll see how he's doing when these voters hear more from this Cackling Whore.
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: What we are seeing in this race is the result of what was happening when Biden was the nominee. It wasn't just that he was losing to Trump, but losing very much to tRump, he was also facing this down-ballot collapse. Democrats were facing the potential loss of five, six, or seven Senate seats. They were not prepared to do that, even if they understood they might lose the presidency.
What you're seeing with these polls is certainly better than what they were doing with Biden. But the fundamentals of the presidential race remain the same, because what they were doing was running against the Biden-Harris presidency, for which Kamala Harris is just as responsible. If anything, Biden was able to present as much more moderate than Kamala Harris, who has this on-video record of being one of the most extreme hard-left Democratic nominees in the last 75 years.