More than one in five Democrats who voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election say they don't know who currently leads the Democratic Party, according to a new Politico poll released Friday.
Harris, the former vice president, was the only individual to receive double-digit support, at 16.1%. "Don't know" topped the survey at 21%, while "nobody" ranked third with 10.5%, the poll found.
"This is where we are, guys," Lauren Harper Pope, a Democratic strategist, told Politico. "I couldn't tell you who the leader of the Democratic Party is, either, and I work in Democratic politics."
Congressional Democrat leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, both of New York, rounded out the top five at 7.7% and 7.4%, respectively, according to the poll. Former President Barack Obama followed closely at 7.4%.
Top 2028 presidential contender California Gov. Gavin Newsom followed at 6.2%, the poll found.
"This is pretty standard for a party that is out of power," Jared Leopold, a strategist who previously worked for the Democratic Governors Association, told Politico.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump remains the clear leader of the Republican Party, receiving 81.4% of responses.
The next most common answers after "Don't know" (5.7%) were House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Vice President JD Vance, who garnered 3% and 2%, respectively, the survey said. Vance is considered the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2028.
The Politico poll was conducted by Public First from Oct. 18-21, surveying 2,051 U.S. adults. The survey has a margin of error of +/- 2.2 percentage points.
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