Vice President Kamala Harris is leading President Donald Trump in two national polls of registered voters released on Sunday, highlighting her strength as presidential candidates struggle to gain support with early voting in several states.
An NBC News poll conducted Sept. 13-17 showed Harris leading former president and Republican nominee Trump 49% to 44%, within the margin of error, while a CBS/Ipsos poll conducted Sept. 18-20 showed Harris leading Trump 52% ​​to 48%. President Trump assassination attempt September 15th, at a golf course in Florida.
The NBC poll found that Harris’ overall favorability rating is up 16 percentage points from before she announced her candidacy in July, when only 32% of voters viewed the vice president favorably; that figure has fallen to 48% in the latest survey.
The network said it was the biggest increase in the poll for any candidate since then-President George W. Bush’s approval rating rose after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Election Day is November 5, but early voting has already begun in Virginia, Minnesota and South Dakota, with several more states expected to expand by October.
Ms. Harris’s late arrival as the Democratic candidate upended a once-smooth race in which President Joe Biden dropped out after a disastrous debate defeat in late June, and her appearance quickly erased Mr. Trump’s lead.
However, the outcome of the presidential election is likely to depend on the results in a limited number of battleground states.
CBS polling models rate all seven key battleground states as close, Harris is ahead within the margin of error. They won all but two states, and both candidates and their allies have been trying to mobilize voters in key states in the final six weeks of the campaign.
“This election is going to be close,” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (Democrat), one of the battleground states, told CNN. Current State of the Nation on sunday.
“We’ve known that all along,” she said, “and in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, we know this is going to be a close race.”
The economy is widely seen as one of Ms. Harris’s political weaknesses, but she closed the gap in a CBS poll among voters who care most about economic issues: Mr. Trump leads Ms. Harris among that demographic, 53% to 47%, up from 56% to 43% in the August poll.
When asked about the intent behind Trump’s unfounded claim that Haitian immigrants eat cats and dogs, 65% said it was intended to incite fear of immigrants, and 63% said the story is probably false.
