Vance’s favorability is worse than Harris’s at the same two-month mark and perhaps worse than any new vice president in the history of polling.
His Real Clear Politics favorable-unfavorable rating is 41.7 percent-44.8 percent, a slightly worse net favorable rating (-3.1 percentage points) than Donald Trump’s (-0.9).
When looking only at March polling—sampled after his infamous Oval Office hectoring of Ukraine’s president—he’s even more underwater: 42.4 percent-48.0 percent.
Vice presidents, while rarely public opinion rockstars, typically begin with a bit more goodwill from the public.
Quayle is a rare example of a vice president in the modern presidential primary era who couldn’t secure his party’s presidential nomination, with the other being Pence.
Last month, Fox News asked during the pre-Super Bowl interview, “Do you view Vice President J.D. Vance as your successor, the Republican nominee in 2028?”
Instead, Vance is slightly more unpopular than the president, who is getting more unpopular by the day. »