June Polling Numbers "Cataclysmic" - Harvard Harris Debrief with Mark Penn and Bob Cusack

Harvard Harris Poll Debrief with Mark Penn and Bob Cusack

Each month, presidential pollster, Harris Poll Chairman and Stagwell Global Chairman & CEO MARK PENN and BOB CUSACK, Editor in Chief of The Hill discuss the findings of the latest Harvard CAPS / Harris Poll. 1,308 registered voters were surveyed earlier this week between June 28-29, 2022. (Link to the full poll here). When asked how he'd sum up the latest polling numbers, Penn offered "CATACLYSMIC".
FULL TRANSCRIPT
Bob Cusack, The Hill (00:00):

To capture the polling that you did, what's the ONE word you'd pick?

Mark Penn, The Harris Poll (00:08):

Cataclysmic

Bob Cusack, The Hill (00:10):

And why is that?

Mark Penn, The Harris Poll (00:12):

Well, because the public feeling of, uh, that the economy is on the wrong track and that their personal lives are deteriorating is overwhelming in this poll with 70% or more saying the economy is on the wrong track with the notion that, that their personal lives were deteriorating shooting up so dramatically. Uh, I think that, uh, almost 80% either think we're going into a recession or we're in a recession. I think somehow the message of economic doom and gloom has been completely communicated to this electorate. And that makes for a very, very sour electorate.

Bob Cusack, The Hill (00:55):

Your polling, Mark, now has the President at 38%. Usually he's been in the low forties in your polls. And obviously this is a very different summer, than last summer when Biden basically had some type of honeymoon Afghanistan hadn't really, turned into the debacle that it did, and his numbers were much higher. Um, you see, the left is frustrated with Biden, you know, compare the numbers of Biden now to Trump, because it seems like with Trump, he was always in the forties and he held down to the base. I know you made the case and I agree with you that he should have gone for more independence, but Biden's losing everybody right now.