By Sacha Wedner

(This post will be updated)

Harris’s favorability rating with Asian American voters increased by 18 points since spring, a new poll released this morning by AAPI Data reveals.

62% of Asian Americans saying that they have a favorable view of the Vice President, compared to the 35% who’s view is unfavorable. She is also more popular than Donald Trump, with 70% having an unfavorable opinion and 28% expressing a favorable opinion of the former president.

66% of the 1161 voters polled say they will vote for Harris versus just 28% for Trump. The poll has an overall margin of error rate of +/- 4.7%. The National Opinion Research Center or NORC conducted the multi-lingual poll between September 3 – 9.

Harris’ popularity among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander voters is comparatively much weaker.

The poll included an oversampling of 61 NHPI voters with a +/- margin of error of 18.2%.

Favorability rating for Kamala Harris by ethnicity:

42% of NHPI voters have an unfavorable view of Harris compared to just a 32% very unfavorable view of Trump.

Favorability rating for Donald Trump by ethnicity:

Trump leads among NHPI voters over Harris 52% – 39%. However, that is within the margin of error of 18.2%.

Democratic Vice President candidate, Tim Walz, is also more popular amongst Asian Americans compared to his counterpart, JD Vance. 56% of Asian American voters have a favorable opinion of Walz, as opposed to 18% who have an unfavorable opinion. According to the survey, 26% of Asian American voters said that they didn’t know enough to form an opinion.

As for JD Vance, only 21% of Asian Americans had a favorable opinion, opposed to the 58% that didn’t. 22% of voters said that they didn’t know enough to form an opinion.

The survey also showed that Asian American voters are more likely to say that they will be voting with absolute certainty, as compared to April-May of this year, with the survey showing that 77% of Asian American voters saying they will “absolutely” vote. That’s up from 68% in spring.

Harris identity as a woman is more important to Asian American voters with 38% describing it as “extremely” or “very” important compared to 27% who say the same about her South Asian or Asian identity.

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