A prominent Michigan Democrat pollster is warning Vice President Kamala Harris that the Biden administration’s all-in approach to electric vehicles could cost her votes in November, and he’s offering some advice.

“I’m suggesting she try to modify and support a slow-down. We are moving too fast,” EPIC MRA pollster Bernie Porn told WJBK. “We need to deal with hybrids and not push so much.”

Porn noted that former President Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked the Biden administration’s efforts to expand EV sales to half of all new vehicles by 2030, suggesting the government imposed transition could decimate an auto industry that’s central to Michigan’s economy.

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“He is telling UAW workers the Biden administration’s EV policies will cost them their jobs,” Porn said.

“Not everyone has to have an electric car,” Trump said at a bitcoin conference in July, according to Business Insider. “So we’re going to get rid of that mandate if you don’t mind. Some people want gasoline-propelled cars, some people want a hybrid, and some people like an electric car.

Trump told the Republican National Convention last month he’s focused on “saving the auto industry from complete obliteration, which is happening right now, and saving customers thousands and thousands of dollars per car.”

In addition to promoting choice, Trump has vowed to protect the EV industry with a 100% tariff on Chinese imports many believe could upend the U.S. market.

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“It’s not just real, it’s terrifying if you thought about (Chinese EVs) in a total open, free market perspective,” Mark Wakefield, co-leader of Global Automotive and Industrial Practice AlixPartners in Troy, told the Detroit Free Press. “Elon Musk is worried about it. He said if it was an open market, the Chinese would decimate the Western automakers.”

While Trump warns UAW members about the perils of Biden’s EV policies, the union is backing Harris despite layoffs tied to a waning interest in EVs and pro-Trump workers organizing their own rallies in recent weeks.

All of the above should compel Harris to reconsider the Biden administration’s government-imposed transition to EVs, Porn argued.

“This is something that even among union members, I think they are not as supportive of that notion as one would think,” he told WJBK.

Whether Harris will heed the call to pump the brakes is a mystery.

“Since replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the 2024 Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris has neither given a sit down interview nor held a news conference. Her campaign’s website lacks an ‘Issues’ page (there is only a biography),” The Washington Post noted in a recent editorial. “If she hopes to prevail, Ms. Harris needs to present her ideas. The media and the public have legitimate questions, and she should face them.”

Biden Energy Secretary and former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm told WJBK the Biden administration wants “to lower the prices so that people buy” EVs, and alleged that with federal tax incentives “EVs and the internal combustion engines are on par, and in many cases EVs are less.”

But the American public, and Michiganders in particular, aren’t buying it.

A recent poll commissioned by The Detroit News and WDIV shows “people in Michigan are more aligned at this point with Donald Trump than they are the Biden-Harris administration on this issue,” Oakland University political scientist Dave Dulio told The News.

The telephone survey of 600 likely general election voters conducted July 22-24 found 71% have no plans to buy an EV, while 24% would consider one for their next vehicle purchase, and 5% are unsure.

Nineteen percent of those avoiding EVs expressed concerns about charging and range, 18% cited higher initial costs, 5% noted performance concerns during cold weather, and 11% do not trust the emerging technology.

Pollsters found 56% of Michiganders oppose the government using tax dollars to force a transition to EVs, compared to 35% who support the spending.

In Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration has pumped billions into the transition, claiming the spending will generate 12,000 jobs. A recent Bridge Michigan analysis found with $1 billion already spent, only 200 jobs have materialized.

Other polling shows 63% of Michiganders oppose a gas car ban, such as new EPA regulations promoted by the Biden administration that would eliminate all current internal combustion vehicle options.

Nationally, the percentage is 75%, including 56% of Democrats, who oppose, while 82% support an “all-of-the-above strategy.”

Still other research from a Kinsey Mobility Consumer Pulse Study found 46% of 800 American EV and plug-in hybrid owners plan to switch back to a gasoline-powered vehicle for their next purchase.

The data suggests Harris would be wise to consider Porn’s advice, though he’s certainly not the only one to point out the obvious.

“Are they making a mistake going to all-electric? My short answer is yes. Maybe not long term. Going all electric by 2050, I’d say that’s a good goal. That’s somewhat aggressive but realistic,” Karl Brauer, executive analyst at iSeeCars.com, told the Free Press. “But 2030 is unrealistic foolishness and financially precarious at best. It’s a bad idea; it’s going to cost you a lot. The realistic take is, it will take a lot longer than what people were originally thinking.”