Mark it down: In 2028, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s presidential candidacy will not survive the New Hampshire primary.
Likewise, former Vice President Kamala Harris might make it a bit further, but not much.
Why the bold forecast? Well, in a poll of 1,000 registered voters conducted between Feb. 27 and March 3,NBC Newsfound that Harris and especially Newsom have comparatively low favorability ratingseven among Democrats.
Incredibly, only 52 percent of Democrats reported positive views of the California governor. If only half of voters in your own party like you, then how can you possibly win a national election?
For comparison’s sake, Harris earned a 67 percent favorability rating among Democrats.
Of course, one might argue thatHarris, who already ran a national campaign, benefits from name recognition.
That explanation, however, does not account for the fact that Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who, like Newsom, has never run a national campaign, matched Harris’ popularity by earning a favorable rating from nearly two-thirds of Democrats.
In other words, Democrat voters have taken their candidates’ measure, and in each case, at least one-third of those voters have found the candidates lacking.
From there, the news got even worse for all three leading Democrat contenders.
First of all, Vice PresidentJ.D. Vance, widely seen as the current Republican front-runner for the party’s 2028 presidential nomination, received a 77 percent favorability rating among Republicans — a 10-point advantage inside his own party compared to Harris and Ocasio-Cortez, and a whopping 25-point advantage over Newsom.
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