A new post-election poll of likely voters from Echelon Insights found that Democrats favor Vice President Kamala Harris to head up their party’s ticket in 2028 despite her catastrophic failure on Election Day.
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Pollsters interviewed 1,010 likely voters on a variety of post-election questions, concluding their polling on Monday.
They asked the 457 respondents who identified themselves as Democrats or Democrat-leaning who they would like to see at the top of the Democratic ticket in 2028.
Voters favored Vice President Harris far more than any other candidate, with 41 percent saying that they would vote for her if the primary was held today.
“Unsure” drew the second-largest group of voters, with 19 percent support.
The poll presented a list of prominent Democrats often mentioned in discussions of their 2028 ticket, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), and even Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), along with other potential candidates.
Gov. Newsom was the second most popular choice, drawing a mere eight percent support, with Gov. Shapiro coming in third with only seven percent.
Only six percent of Democratic respondents want to see Gov. Walz, Harris’s running mate, at the top of the 2028 ticket.
The overwhelming support for Harris suggests that Democrats are not disillusioned with her, despite her being the first Democratic candidate in 20 years to lose the popular vote.
The last time a Republican won both the popular and Electoral College votes was during the 2004 election, when President George W. Bush defeated then-Democratic U.S. Sen John Kerry of Massachusetts.
President-elect Donald Trump defeated Harris with 312 electoral votes, more than any Republican candidate has earned since George H. W. Bush won 426 in 1988.
Echelon Insights posed a similar question to Republicans.
Vice President-Elect Sen. J.D. Vance (R) topped the Republican list with 37 percent support, followed by former Republican candidates Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, each at 9 percent.
Pollsters asked a variety of other questions and found that while 59 percent of voters believe that the country is currently on the wrong track, 58 percent believe that things will begin to improve in 2025 when President Trump takes office.
A majority, 53 percent, also approved of the way that Trump has been handling the transfer of power.
Interestingly, the poll also found that more voters, 22 percent, support the use of psychedelics than those who support avoiding seed oils, 18 percent, despite 42 percent at least somewhat supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
