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Joe Biden’s Victory May Depend on Kamala Harris’s Poll Numbers
The vice president isn’t popular, and the president’s re-election campaign knows it needs to change that.
Just as important as the candidate for president.
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These are not numbers campaign dreams are made of: Some 70% of the country, including 51% of Democrats, say the incumbent president shouldn’t run for a second term — and a major reason, according to almost half, is age. President Joe Biden is 80 and already the oldest US president ever.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is only 58, was supposed to neutralize those concerns — but so far she hasn’t. If she can improve her own approval ratings, she may boost the president’s poll numbers as well.