JD Vance’s Unpopularity is Now in the Double Digits

JD Vance’s unpopularity is in the double digits, with it reaching a +10 unfavorability on a polling average site for the first time.
The Ohio Senator has had a difficult time in the polls since former President Donald Trump announced he was his running mate at the Republican National Convention in July.
His early polling issues seem to be changing in some polls, with the most recent Morning Consult research showing that voters are now only two points more likely to have unfavorable than favorable views of Vance.
None-the-less, the polling aggregation site FiveThirtyEight shows unfavorable opinions of Vance at 43.2 percent and favorable opinions of him at 33.2 percent.
This is a net difference of 10 percentage points, the first time it has been in the double digits on FiveThirtyEight since Vance entered the race.
FiveThirtyEight’s results, the most recent of which were updated on Wednesday, are based on a projection of 95 percent of polls falling in that range.
Newsweek has contacted Vance’s team via email for comment.
Just a few days ago, when Vance was asked about his reaction to the polls in general at a campaign event in Philadelphia he said he did not believe the polls and was focused on other things during the White House race.
A reporter asked him: “On July 21, Donald Trump was ahead of Joe Biden by 4.5 percent in an average of polls in Pennsylvania. Today it’s a statistical tie between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
“One, do you believe the polls? And, two, if you do, how do you get that ground back?”
Vance responded: “Well look, I don’t believe the polls when they say that we’re up, I don’t believe the polls when they say tied, I don’t believe the polls that say that we’re down. Our job is to win the trust of the American voters, not public opinion polls.
“What I think, and I saw this in my race for the Senate, I remember when all the public opinion polls in August said that I was going to lose my race in the United States Senate and then I won in a pretty convincing fashion just a couple of months later.”
Indeed, when Vance ran against his Democratic opponent Tim Ryan in 2022, polls showed Vance trailing leading up to the election. Ryan was the favorite according to FiveThirtyEight’s average collection of polls in September that year, albeit quite narrowly, 45 percent to 44.5 percent. Despite this, Vance went on to win the Senate seat by 6.1 percentage points.