Kamala Harris Rallied for a Georgia Candidate and Ten Days Later It Backfired Badly

Kamala Harris stood beside Jon Ossoff at Clark Atlanta University on October 29 and told Georgia it needed him back in the Senate.

Plenty of Democrats on the ballot this fall had told her to stay away, but Ossoff welcomed her on stage.

Ten days later, the party's most devoted activists delivered a verdict on her future that should end the conversation.

Crooked Con Straw Poll Hands Harris a Number She Will Never Live Down

The vote took place at Crooked Con, the gathering thrown by Crooked Media – the company Obama administration alumni built into a megaphone for the activist left.

Roughly 1,000 attendees filled out ballots.

Ossoff took the top spot with 38 percent – more than double anyone else in the field.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez finished second at 17 percent, with Pete Buttigieg right behind her at 14.

Then came the long parade of also-rans – JB Pritzker, Andy Beshear, and Josh Shapiro at 4 percent apiece, Mark Kelly and Wes Moore at 3, and Gavin Newsom limping in at 2.3.

Kamala Harris got 0.6 percent.

That works out to roughly six people in a room of a thousand.

She tied for 16th place with Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin.

Cory Booker, the man who talked for 25 straight hours on the Senate floor, walked away with exactly two votes.

President Trump even picked up a vote in the same poll, putting him dead even with Michelle Obama.

Before the 2024 election, Harris led nearly every 2028 primary poll by double digits.

Democrat Candidates Spent the Fall Running From Her

This humiliation didn't come out of nowhere.

When Harris launched her midterm tour in September, Democrat candidates practically sprinted for the exits.

Iowa governor nominee Rob Sand put it bluntly: "Let's move on. We need some new leadership."

Iowa Senate candidate Josh Turek was asked whether he wanted her help, said "No," and laughed.

Kansas Senate hopeful Adam Hamilton argued that a Californian lecturing Kansans on how to vote would backfire.

Aides to Texas Democrat James Talarico – the left's newest golden boy – and Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs reportedly wanted her nowhere near their campaigns either.

Ossoff's campaign, by contrast, said he was "grateful for Vice President Harris' help and support" – and she went all in for him.

Now the man she rallied for has beaten her 63 to 1 in front of her own party's base.

Ossoff Promised Georgia a Full Six-Year Term

During his reelection race, Ossoff was asked whether he'd serve all six years, and he answered, "Yes, I will."

He went further, saying he has "zero interest in running for president."

He just beat Republican Rep. Mike Collins to keep his seat, and the activists are already trying to pry him out of it.

Harris lost Georgia to Trump in 2024, and Ossoff held it two years later with her name nowhere near the top of the ticket.

He pulled it off by telling Georgia he opposes Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, and packing the Supreme Court.

Georgia voters bought the moderate act, but the activists cheering him in that convention hall know exactly what they're getting.

Nobody crowns a man the 2028 favorite because he's against everything they stand for.

So the Democrat base split its vote between the man hiding the radical leftist agenda and the woman who helped write it.

Every Time Democrats Actually Vote Kamala Disappears

Harris has seen this movie before.

In December 2019, she quit the presidential race before a single ballot was cast in Iowa, after her numbers sank into the low single digits.

In 2024, she became the nominee without winning one primary vote – the party simply handed it to her after Joe Biden was shoved aside.

The RealClearPolitics national average still has her on top at 21.8 percent, but that number runs on name recognition, not love.

Ossoff sits fifth in that same average at 10.8 percent, and the activists just vaulted him past all four names ahead of him.

The people who knock doors, cut checks, and drive turnout in primaries are the exact crowd that filled that convention hall, and they just told her what they think of her.

She said back in April she was "thinking about" another run.

After this weekend, the only question left is whether anyone in her own party has the nerve to tell her to stop.

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Sources:

• Nick Arama, "New 2028 Poll Has Bad News for Kamala – and Shows the Surprising Rise of Another Contender," RedState, November 8, 2026.
• "Kamala Harris Is a Huge Loser in New Dem Straw Poll as Ossoff Leads," New York Post, November 8, 2026.
• "HUMILIATION: Kamala Harris Crashes to 16th Place With 0.6% in Lefty Straw Poll," KTSA, November 9, 2026.
• Drew Berkemeyer, "Democrats Avoid Kamala Like the Plague as She Tries to Flex Midterm Muscle," Daily Wire, September 22, 2026.
• "Kamala Harris, Jon Ossoff Rally Clark Atlanta Students Ahead of Midterm," FOX 5 Atlanta, October 29, 2026.