Biden Campaign Polling Harris Against Trump as Democratic Lawmakers Tease More Defections
Members of President Biden’s own re-election effort think he has no chance of defeating Republican Donald Trump following last month’s debate debacle — and have been quietly polling Vice President Kamala Harris in the ticket’s top spot should the 81-year-old step aside.
“He needs to drop out,” one Biden campaign official told NBC News of the president. “He will never recover from this.”
“No one involved in the effort thinks he has a path,” another source told the outlet.
The internal surveys, reported by the New York Times, pitting Harris, 59, against the 78-year-old Trump likely serve one of two purposes, according to Democratic pollster John Zogby, founder of an eponymous marketing and political consulting firm.
Either Harris “does worse, and [shows] that Biden has a reason to stay in the race,” he said, or, “more than likely, they’re testing to see if he can hand the reins of the campaign over to her.” (Read more from “Biden Campaign Polling Harris Against Trump as Democratic Lawmakers Tease More Defections” HERE)
