Overview
- Politico/Public First polling shows 21% of 2024 Harris voters answered "Don't know" when asked who leads the Democratic Party, with "nobody" at 10.5%.
- Kamala Harris was the only individual in double digits at 16.1%, while Chuck Schumer (7.7%), Hakeem Jeffries (7.4%), Barack Obama (7.4%), Gavin Newsom (6.2%) and Joe Biden (4.4%) trailed in single digits.
- The poll focused on Americans who voted for Harris in 2024, surveyed 2,051 adults Oct. 18–21, and carries a ±2.2 percentage point margin of error.
- By contrast, 81.4% of Trump voters identified the president as the GOP’s leader, followed by "Don't know" at 5.7%, Speaker Mike Johnson at 3% and Vice President JD Vance at 2%.
- Democratic strategists quoted in the reporting called the lack of a clear leader typical for a party out of power and noted recent off-cycle wins have not yet produced a broadly recognized figurehead.