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A shock new poll has put Kamala Harris as the frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic Party presidential nomination, weeks after the Vice President’s brutal defeat by Donald Trump.
The Echelon Insights survey of 1010 registered voters, conducted from November 14 to 18, gave Ms Harris an overwhelming lead of 41 per cent, ahead of California Governor Gavin Newsom on 8 per cent and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on 7 per cent.
Respondents who said they were Democrat or leaned Democrat, for a total of 457, were asked who they would vote for if the 2028 primary were held today.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Ms Harris’ vice presidential running mate Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, were tied on 6 per cent, followed by New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on 4 per cent.
Further down the list were Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (3 per cent), Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.
Sixteen per cent said they were unsure.
On the Republican side, Vice President-elect JD Vance was the top pick for the 2028 nomination with 37 per cent, followed by Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley tied on 9 per cent, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on 8 per cent and Texas Senator Ted Cruz on 5 per cent.
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The surprising poll comes despite Mr Trump’s crushing election victory on November 5, which saw the former President pull off the greatest political comeback in history.
Mr Trump swept every swing state to win the electoral college by 312-226, and also became the first Republican to win the popular vote since 2004.
Republicans took the Senate and retained control of the House of Representatives, handing them all three branches of government.
A massive red shift across the country saw 90 per cent of counties move to the right, with Ms Harris severely underperforming Joe Biden’s 2020 election results.
Mr Trump received 2.5 million more votes compared with 2020, while Ms Harris received 7.1 million fewer votes than Mr Biden.
The Republican improved his vote share in nearly every demographic, especially among traditionally Democratic-leaning Latinos, Asians and black men.
Ms Harris’ resounding defeat has sparked a wave of recriminations and soul-searching both within the Democratic Party and the broader American left.
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Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who twice ran for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, said the party had abandoned its base during the “disastrous” campaign.
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” Mr Sanders said in a statement.
“First it was the working class, and now it is Latino and black voters as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut warned the party was “out of touch” and refusing to listen to genuine concerns fuelling the rise of MAGA.
“The left has never fully grappled with the wreckage of 50 years of neoliberalism, which has left legions of Americans adrift as local places are hollowed out, rapacious profit seeking cannibalises the common good, and unchecked new technology separates and isolates us,” he wrote in an election post-mortem on X.
Meanwhile many slammed the Harris campaign’s reckless spending on celebrity endorsements and events.
Lindy Li, a member of the Democratic National Committee finance committee, branded it an epic “$1 billion disaster”, referring to the record sum raised by the campaign only to cross the finish line tens of millions in debt.
“It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that,” Ms Li told Fox News earlier this month. “I have friends I have to be accountable to and explain what happened because I told them it was a margin-of-error race.”
Ms Li argued that Mr Biden, by immediately endorsing his Vice President after dropping out, delivered a “big f**k you” to the party.
“‘If you don’t want me, here’s somebody you may not like, deal with it,’” Ms Li said. “Kind of like sticking it to the man.”
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, widely believed to have played a key role in ousting Mr Biden from the race, defended Ms Harris’ performance and also pointed the finger at the President for effectively scuttling any chance of picking an alternative candidate.
“The anticipation was that, if the President were to step aside, that there would be an open primary,” Ms Pelosi told The New York Times.
“And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different. But that’s not, we’re not here to agonise.”
Ms Pelosi would not be drawn on if Ms Harris should run again.
“Well, that’s a whole other conversation, the decisions that people make,” she said.
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