Pence was the more popular candidate than Biden, Harris, or Trump

 Washington Examiner:

A campaign autopsy by former President Donald Trump's chief pollster showed then-Vice President Mike Pence held an advantage over current Vice President Kamala Harris with swing-state voters, as well as over Trump and now-President Biden.

In a 27-page report, pollster Tony Fabrizio analyzed exit polls from 10 key battleground states that Trump won in 2016 and split in 2020.

Trump and Pence held only five of the 10 states they won in 2016, despite Harris and Biden each garnering favorability ratings below zero in the two groups.

Pence scored a net positive rating with both groups.

Five of the states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — flipped to Biden after going for Trump in 2016. Another five — Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas — went for Trump in 2016 and 2020.

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Fabrizio, who used exit poll data from the National Election Pool and Associated Press, also found that while Trump's favorability fell below zero in the group of states that flipped for Biden, the former vice president was underwater in both the states that he won and lost. Trump scored a net positive in the states that he held on to.

Voters in both groups of states, those that flipped for Biden and which Trump held, gave Pence higher marks on favorability than Harris.

In the five states that voted for the Biden-Harris ticket in 2020, Pence outscored Harris by 5 percentage points.

Among the voters surveyed, Harris scored a 49% unfavorable rating to 46% favorable, with 5% answering "don't know," for a minus 3 percentage point result.

Pence, despite losing these states, polled nearly the reverse of Harris, with 47% of respondents giving him an "unfavorable" rating and 49% scoring him favorably, with 4% answering "don't know," for a net positive 2 percentage points.

In the five states Trump held, Harris polled at a 52% unfavorable to 42% favorable among respondents, while 6% said "don't know," for a minus 10 percentage point overall score.

Pence, in those same states, scored 44% unfavorable to 52% favorable, with 5% "don't know," for a net positive 8 percentage points.

Trump and Biden also scored below Pence in this metric.

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This data suggests that Pence might have the best chance of winning in 2024.  I suspectr that both Biden and Harris favorability will drop because of the radical agaenda they have pushed since taking office. 

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