Leads by a whopping 22%.
U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris has widened her lead over rival Loretta Sanchez, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), the final one before the Nov. 8 election.
“About half of the likely voters say they are more enthusiastic than usual about voting,” PPIC President Mark Baldassare said. “But there was a difference between Democrats and Republicans.”
Baldassare said Democrats — who have an 18 percent voter registration advantage over Republicans — are far more excited about casting votes than their GOP counterparts. And, he added, Republicans are a lot less excited than they were in the last presidential race, KQED.
“That gap in enthusiasm has implications not just for the top of the ticket but what goes on in some of the legislative races and local races this year,” he said.
Baldassare found all voters are pretty lukewarm about their choice of presidential candidates, even though Clinton leads GOP nominee Donald Trump 54 to 28 percent. And, the poll found that more than one-third of Republicans said they are planning to simply forgo voting in the Senate race between two Democrats: Harris and Orange County congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.
The PPIC survey found Harris has a 2-1 lead over Sanchez, a margin that has increased since the organization’s last poll in September. Baldassare said the attorney general started with some advantages, including better recognition among voters because she’s run for statewide office twice before. But Sanchez has also apparently failed to make inroads among the Republican and independent voters she would have needed to make a real stand against Harris, he said.
PPIC found Harris leading Sanchez 42 to 20 percent, with the margin growing to 27 points in Harris’ favor — 51 to 24 percent — when you exclude the likely voters who say they won’t weigh in on the contest.
And while right-leaning voters may sit out this race, Baldassare cautioned against assuming that Republicans and more conservative independent voters will sit out future races with two Democrats on the ticket.
“If it’s a U.S. senator it’s different than it might be for a race for governor or lieutenant governor or controller or treasurer — because when you’re voting for U.S. Senate, you’re also thinking about your party’s control of Congress,” he said, noting that 84 percent of Republicans told PPIC they want the GOP to control Congress.
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Harris is a polished public official who presents herself well .I don’t see a whole lot of difference as will both follow the party line,especially Harris. I see D.A. Harris entering The 2024 Presidential campaign if not sooner depending on the 2016 Presidential results.