Memo: 2020 Vice Presidential Selection-Polling Potential Tickets

Executive Summary

  • Democrats as a whole and Sanders primary voters specifically rate Warren highest in potential VP tickets in terms of likelihood to vote Democratic. 

  • Sixty-one percent of Sanders supporters would be more likely to vote for a Biden / Warren ticket, compared to 42 percent for a Biden / Harris ticket, 33 percent for a Biden / Klobuchar ticket and 26 for a Biden / Abrams ticket.

  • Warren also rates highest among key Democratic constituencies including black voters, voters under 45 and progressive Democrats.

  • Although Abrams has lower name identification than the national candidates, she over performs her name identification among black and progressive voters.