A new poll by the Media Research Center reveals that a large majority of registered Democrats and Independents who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 — key groups likely to support Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming election — are largely unaware of many of the controversial and radical positions Harris has taken.
This poll was conducted for the Media Research Center by McLaughlin & Associates between August 2 and August 5. The survey consisted of 1,200 people — 800 registered Democrats plus 400 Independents who reported voting for Joe Biden in 2020. Each was asked about where they typically received their political news, as well as their familiarity with a list of left-wing positions taken by Harris.
Each voter reported their top two sources for election news:
broadcast television (50.2%) as a main source of news,
cable news (41.2%),
social media (34.4%),
online news sites (23.9%),
search engines (16.7%).
national newspapers (10.8%),
public broadcasting (9.2%),
local newspapers (7.6%),
radio (4.9%),
and AI chatbots (1.0%) as a main source of political information.
Here are the 10 questions that were asked and the percentages of responses:
Democrat Voters don’t know their Candidate
Here are 3 that are of special:
Inmates should vote
Harris would consider allowing death row inmates to vote: At an April 22, 2019 “town hall” event on CNN, moderator Don Lemon asked Harris if she would want “people who are in — convicted, in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber, on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault, they should be allowed to vote?”
Harris would not say “no,” instead replying: “I think we should have that conversation.”
Cutting Police Funding
Harris supported cutting funding for the police: Back in June 2020, before she was selected as Biden’s running mate, Harris told a Los Angeles radio show host that she favored cutting police funding. According to ABC News, Harris “told Power 106 Los Angeles host Nick Cannon that she believes ‘we have to redirect resources’ from police to other areas of government, mentioning schools and small businesses.”
“For too long, people have confused achieving public safety with putting more cops on the street,” Harris said in the same interview.
Harris Never visited the border
As “Border Czar,” Harris never visited a conflict zone on the border: Back on March 24, 2021, President Biden announced he was tapping Harris to “lead our efforts….in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border.” Yet since then, Harris has only visited the border once, and chose not to go to the Rio Grande Valley, the epicenter of the crisis.
Since then, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have reported approximately 8 million border encounters in the Southwest region, revealing the extent to which Harris has failed at her assignment of “stemming the migration.” And her failure to visit the areas hardest hit by the crisis demonstrates a lack of interest in understanding and solving the problem.
Since July 21, the evening newscasts have spent 7 minutes, 46 seconds on the candidates’ positions on immigration, but only 44 seconds on Harris’s failure to visit the border.