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JD Vance is the first non-incumbent vice presidential nominee to have a net-negative favorable rating after a convention since 1980, according to poll numbers.
The Ohio senator's net favorable rating was at -6 points after the Republican National Convention (RNC), according to CNN's senior data reporter Harry Enten. This is far behind the general average since 2000, which was +19 points.
Enten explained the numbers on Erin Burnett OutFront, which cited The Associated Press as the source*.*
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"It's in negative net territory, negative—look at that—negative," he said. "I have gone all the way back since 1980. He is the first guy, immediately following a convention—a VP pick—who actually has a net-negative favorable rating. The average since 2000 is +19 points. J.D. Vance [is] making history in the completely wrong way."
Enten went on to say that VPs are usually popular, but he said Vance was "dragging Trump down."
"What does Vance add?" Burnett asked.
Enten replied: "Look, he won white working-class voters, he won white voters without a college degree in the state of Ohio. But pretty much every Republican wins white working-class voters."
Citing CNN exit polls, Enten went on to show that in his 2022 victory in Ohio, Vance performed worse with the state's white voters without a college degree (+31 points) than Trump did in 2020 (+36) and Governor Mike DeWine in 2022 (+45).
General polling on Vance shows a mixed reaction to him nationwide. An Economist/YouGov poll, carried out between July 13 and July 16—Trump announced Vance would be his pick on July 15—found that 22 percent of 1,582 U.S. adults viewed him favorably, while 31 percent viewed him unfavorably and 48 percent had no opinion about him.
A more recent Marist poll found that just 31 percent of registered voters had a favorable impression of Vance, while 33 percent said they saw him unfavorably and 36 percent said they were unsure or had never heard of him.
Some 59 percent of Republican men reported a favorable impression along with 53 percent of Republican women, while 16 percent of Republican men and 8 percent of Republican women said they saw him unfavorably. The poll was conducted in partnership with NPR and PBS News on July 22 among 1,309 adults.
Newsweek has contacted Vance's team via email for comment.
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On Tuesday, Trump's communications director Steven Cheung addressed rumors that the former president was second-guessing his choice of Vance as his running mate.
He told Newsweek: "President Trump is thrilled with the choice he made with Senator Vance, and they are the perfect team to take back the White House.
"And any reporting to the contrary is nothing but ridiculous fake news from either non-existent sources or individuals who have no idea what's going on.
"Meanwhile, Democrats are in complete disarray after their coup that forcibly removed Biden from the campaign, proving they are the real threats to democracy."
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