By Burt Glass
The Democratic National Convention weakened former President Donald Trump’s image – notably among political Independents — but did not appreciably boost that of his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, according to new national surveys conducted before and after the convention by Boston University’s College of Communication.
“The changes we are seeing, pre- and post-DNC in how Independents perceive Donald Trump is quite staggering,” said Anne Danehy, a former pollster and associate professor of the practice teaching political campaigns at Boston University’s College of Communication. “The Democratic National Convention did a good job of cutting into Trump’s image, but those positive images were not transferred to Harris.”