US Vice President Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in two national polls of registered voters released Sunday, underscoring her momentum as US presidential candidates struggle to gain momentum as early voting begins in several states.
Harris leads the former president and Republican nominee 49% to 44%, within the margin of error, in an NBC News poll conducted Sept. 13-17. She leads Trump 52% to 48% in a CBS/Ipsos poll conducted Sept. 18-20, which was conducted entirely after the CBS/Ipsos poll. Alleged Trump Assassination Attempt At his golf course in Florida on September 15.
Harris’ overall approval rating has gained 16 percentage points in NBC News polls compared to where it was before she entered the race in July, and just 32% of registered voters said they viewed the vice president in a positive light at the time, compared with 48% in the most recent poll.
The network said this is the largest increase any candidate has received in opinion polls since President George W. Bush’s popularity rose in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
While Election Day is November 5, early voting has already begun in Virginia, Minnesota and South Dakota. It will extend to several other states through October.
Harris’s late entry as the Democratic nominee has catapulted a once-sluggish race forward that has since been upended. President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate appearance in late June effectively ended his run, and Harris’s entry quickly erased Trump’s lead.
But winning the presidential election is likely to depend on the results in a limited number of swing states.
CBS has classified all seven key swing states in its polling model as swing states, with Harris maintains advantage within margin of error In all but two states, the candidates and their allies sought to rally voters in key states during the final six weeks of the campaign.
“This election is going to be close,” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat whose state is a battleground, said on CNN. State of the Union Sunday.
“We always knew that, and in a state like Michigan or Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, we knew that this was going to be a close race,” she said.
On the economy, widely seen as one of her political responsibilities, Harris has narrowed the gap with her rival in a CBS poll of voters most concerned about the issue. Trump leads Harris 53% to 47% among that subset of voters, up from 56% to 43% in August.
When asked about the intent of Trump’s unsubstantiated claims about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs, 65% said they were intended to make people afraid of immigrants, and 63% said the stories were probably false.
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