Majority of Americans Believe Kamala Harris Covered Up Biden’s Health Issues, Polls Find
More than three-fifths of Americans believe Vice President Kamala Harris was involved in covering up President Joe Biden’s declining health, two polls found.
President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he was dropping out of the presidential race, and Harris secured enough verbal support from Democratic National Convention delegates on Monday to be the presumptive nominee. The polls, conducted after Biden’s withdrawal but before his Wednesday speech to the country, showed a supermajority of Americans think Harris was involved in concealing Biden’s declining cognitive and physical condition.
BREAKING: Trump +8 > Harris. Our new #DemocracyInstitute @ExpressUSNews @Daily_Express poll. 62% say Harris lied about Biden’s health.https://t.co/kihAlGZ5cP
— Patrick Basham (@PatrickBashamDI) July 25, 2024
A poll by YouGov for The Times showed that 54% of respondents believed that Biden’s health issues were covered up, with 68% of those respondents saying they felt Harris had “a great deal” to do with concealing the truth about Biden’s health. Another poll conducted by The Democracy Institute and Daily Express US found that 62% of Americans felt Harris “lied” to the American public about the president’s health.
The YouGov poll was conducted between July 22-23, surveyed 1,170 registered voters and has a margin of error of 3.2%. The Democracy Institute/Daily Express US poll was done of July 24, surveyed 1,200 likely voters and has a 3% margin of error. (Read more from “Majority of Americans Believe Kamala Harris Covered Up Biden’s Health Issues, Polls Find” HERE)
