Vice President Kamala Harris is ahead of Donald Trump in two nationwide polls of registered voters released on Sunday, underlining her lead as U.S. presidential candidates jockey for a lead in early voting that has begun in several states.
Harris leads the previous president and Republican candidate 49% to 44%, inside the margin of error, in an NBC News poll conducted Sept. 13-17. In a CBS/Ipsos poll conducted Sept. 18-20, which is fully the apparent assassination attempt on Trump at his golf course in Florida on September fifteenth.
Harris’ overall popularity increased 16 percentage points in NBC’s poll in comparison with before she entered the presidential race in July, when only 32 percent of registered voters said they’d a good opinion of the vice chairman, in comparison with 48 percent in essentially the most recent poll.
According to the broadcaster, that is the biggest increase in polls by a candidate since President George W. Bush’s approval rankings rose following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 within the United States.
Although Election Day isn’t until November 5, early voting has already begun in Virginia, Minnesota and South Dakota, and can expand to several other states by October.
Harris’s belated bid to change into the Democratic nominee propelled a once-monotonous campaign that has since been turned on its head. A disastrous debate performance by President Joe Biden in late June led to his exit from the race, and Harris’ bid quickly worn out Trump’s lead.
Nevertheless, victory within the presidential election will likely depend upon the end result of a limited variety of swing states.
CBS classified all seven key swing states as undecided in its poll model. Harris maintains a lead inside the margin of error in all but two states. Both candidates and their allies have sought to mobilize voters in key states in the ultimate six weeks of the campaign.
“This election is going to be close,” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat whose state is one in every of the battleground states, said on CNN’s On the state of the nation on Sunday.
“We always knew that,” she said. “And in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, we know it’s going to be a close race.”
On economic policy, widely seen as one in every of her policy weaknesses, Harris narrowed her deficit within the CBS poll amongst voters who care most in regards to the issue. Trump leads Harris 53% to 47% amongst that group of voters, up from 56% to 43% in August.
When asked in regards to the intent of Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that Haitian immigrants eat cats and dogs, 65 percent said he was attempting to make people afraid of migrants, and 63 percent said the stories were probably false.
