{"id":2291094,"date":"2024-07-09T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-and-hillary-clinton-best-suited-to-replace-biden-against-trump-poll-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T11:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:31:20","slug":"kamala-harris-and-hillary-clinton-best-suited-to-replace-biden-against-trump-poll-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-and-hillary-clinton-best-suited-to-replace-biden-against-trump-poll-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton best suited to replace Biden against Trump: Poll &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-and-hillary-clinton-best-suited-to-replace-biden-against-trump-poll-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2291094&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/organizers-hit-number-of-signatures-required-to-force-recall-vote-for-gavin-newsom-report\/\" title=\"Organizers Hit Number Of Signatures Required To Force Recall Vote For Gavin Newsom: Report\">poll conducted<\/a> by Democratic pollster Bendixen &#038; \u2062Amandi,\u200d shared with Politico, shows that if President Joe Biden were to step aside, Vice President Kamala Harris\u2063 and former Secretary \u2064of State Hillary Clinton\u2064 are seen as the\u200c best candidates to replace him in a potential race against \u2062former \u200cPresident Donald Trump. The poll indicates\u200c that Harris and Clinton have better chances of beating Trump compared to other potential candidates\u2063 like\u200c Govs. Gretchen Whitmer and \u2064Gavin Newsom. Harris has been identified as a strong alternative to Biden, with other polls also showing her\u2063 as a strong contender. \u2063Clinton has \u200cexpressed that she would not run and has voiced support for Biden, despite her loss \u2063to Trump in the 2016 election. The discussion about Biden&#8217;s potential replacement continues, with concerns\u200b about his\u2063 age \u200band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-short-history-of-how-anthony-fauci-has-kept-failing-up-since-1984\/\" title=\"A Short History Of How Anthony Fauci Has Kept Failing Up Since 1984\">mental acuity<\/a> persisting. The \u2064poll indicates that while Biden is currently only trailing Trump by \u200b1 percentage point, \u2063other\u200c polls \u2064show the president \u200bin a more challenging \u200cposition after a recent debate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\"><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton best suited to replace Biden against Trump: Poll<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/jack-birle\/\">Jack Birle<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-09T11:04:43-04:00\">July 9, 2024 11:04 am<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1697756\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> is resisting calls by many in his party to step aside. But if he does, Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> and former Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> may have the best chance at taking on former President Donald Trump, according to a new poll.<\/p>\n<p>A poll from Democratic pollster Bendixen &#038; Amandi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000190-94cd-d9a9-a3b3-96dfd90d0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"shared\">shared<\/a> with <em>Politico<\/em> on Tuesday, shows Trump leading Biden 43%-42%, but Harris leading the former president 42%-41%, and Clinton leading him 43%-41%. Other possible Biden replacements, such as Govs. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) and Gavin Newsom (D-CA) trail Trump 40%-36% and 40%-37%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also examined possible Democratic replacement tickets with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">vice presidential candidate<\/a>. Among three proposed tickets, a Clinton-Harris ticket performed the best against Trump, beating him 43%-40%. A Harris-Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) ticket also defeated the former president, 42%-40%. The other proposed ticket, with Harris and Whitmer, would lose to Trump, 41%-39%.<\/p>\n<p>Harris has been viewed as the most likely alternative should Biden drop out of the campaign, with other polls also showing her performing the strongest out of Democratic replacement candidates. Clinton, who lost to Trump in the 2016 election, has frequently said she would not run and reaffirmed her support for Biden immediately after the president\u2019s disastrous debate last month.<\/p>\n<p>As the discussion about whether Biden should step aside continues into its second week, his interview with ABC News on Friday and campaign events over the weekend have done little to quell concerns about his age and mental acuity.<\/p>\n<p>While the poll shared by <em>Politico<\/em> on Tuesday showed Biden only trailing Trump by 1 percentage point, most other polls have the president in a deeper hole after the debate.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <em>New York Times<\/em>-Siena College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/03\/us\/politics\/poll-debate-biden-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"poll\">poll<\/a> released last week showed Biden losing to Trump with likely voters 49%-43% and trailing with registered voters 49%-41%, while a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/prod-i.a.dj.com\/public\/resources\/documents\/WSJ_June_2023_Partial_Results.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"poll\">poll<\/a> showed Trump leading Biden 48%-42% with registered voters. The <em>RealClearPolitics<\/em> polling average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/trump-vs-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"poll\">shows<\/a> Trump leading Biden 47.5%-44.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Fewer than a dozen House Democrats have publicly called on Biden to step aside, as reports swirl that other Democrats have privately expressed doubts about the president\u2019s ability to continue his candidacy against Trump.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1697756\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1697756\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent poll suggests that if President Joe Biden were to step aside, Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would be the best candidates to take on former President Donald Trump. The poll, conducted by Democratic pollster Bendixen &amp; Amandi and shared with Politico, shows that Harris and Clinton both have a slight edge over Trump in a head-to-head matchup. Other potential replacements for Biden, such as Govs. Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom, trail behind Trump in the poll. Harris has been seen as the most likely alternative to Biden, with other polls also showing her performing well against Trump. Clinton, who has previously stated she would not run again, has reaffirmed her support for Biden. Despite Biden&#8217;s recent campaign events and interviews, concerns about his age and mental acuity persist, with polls showing him trailing Trump by varying margins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2291095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hillary-clinton-kamala-harris-2024.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,32624,32438,3921,3634],"class_list":["post-2291094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-kamala-harris","tag-poll","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hillary-clinton-kamala-harris-2024.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}