Since Kamala Harris’ nomination for the upcoming US presidential election, the reminder that she is the first woman to win the White House in the country’s history has been avoided. While this point may be useful to her campaign, it has been deliberately omitted, perhaps to distinguish her from Hillary Clinton, the previous candidate. Some observers believe that this argument has become repetitive.
Nevertheless, the latest polls show that Kamala Harris, the 60-year-old Democratic candidate, is outperforming her Republican rival Donald Trump with strong support from women and Latinos. According to a poll released Thursday, Harris received 45% support, compared to 41% for Trump. She has sparked new enthusiasm among Americans, increasing her support among registered voters by four percentage points compared to the narrow lead she had over the former president in a poll conducted in late July. Among women and Latinos, Harris had 49 percent support to Trump’s 36 percent, a 13-point lead. She led by nine points among women and six points among Latinos in four previous polls conducted in July.
Among white voters and men, Trump led among white voters and men, by the same margins in both categories as in July, but his lead among voters without college degrees narrowed to seven points in the latest poll, down from 14 points in July. The results illustrate how much the presidential race has changed over the summer.
President Joe Biden, 81, ended his faltering campaign on July 21 after a disastrous debate performance against Trump that prompted widespread calls from members of his own Democratic Party to drop out of his reelection bid. Harris has since been ahead of Trump in national polls and in key swing states.
The Seven Swing States
In the seven swing states where the 2020 election was close — Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Michigan and Nevada — Trump had 45 percent support, while Harris had 43 percent among registered voters who participated in the poll. Harris was either ahead or tied with Trump in all of those states, according to a separate poll released later Thursday. Harris led Trump by 2 percentage points among registered voters in all seven states, while she was tied with him among likely voters by 1 point, a statistical tie.
Voter Enthusiasm: About 73 percent of registered Democratic voters said they were more excited about voting on Nov. 5. Meanwhile, Trump voters were also enthusiastic, with 64 percent saying their support for the former president outweighed their opposition to Harris. Forty-five percent of those voters said they chose Trump because he is better at managing the U.S. economy, up from 36 percent in a Reuters/Ipsos poll this week.
The Democrat was favored by 47 percent of respondents to 31 percent on abortion policy. National polls, including the Reuters/Ipsos poll, provide important clues about voters’ views. But it is the Electoral College results at the individual state level that determine the winner, with a handful of swing states likely to decide the race.
She was up by one point — a statistical tie — among likely voters, who campaigns and polls begin to focus on as Election Day approaches. The poll’s margin of error was said to be a maximum of one percentage point across the seven states.
Economy and Crime
A new poll has shown that Donald Trump’s lead over Kamala Harris on the economy and fighting crime is slipping among American voters, a sign that Harris’s campaign is gaining momentum ahead of the upcoming presidential race. The former Republican president’s approach to the economy and employment issues attracted 43% of registered voters, compared with 40% who preferred Harris’ approach, a 3-point difference that is very small given the margin of error of 4 percentage points.
The latest poll found that the economy was the top issue for 26% of registered voters, compared with 22% who chose political extremism and the threat to democracy and 13% who chose immigration. A previous poll in late July showed Trump leading by 11 points on the economy, while Harris tied with him on fighting crime and corruption, at 40% each, indicating that more voters are shifting toward Harris, who trailed Trump by 5 points in the previous poll. Trump’s warnings: This coincides with Trump continuing his campaign meetings, especially in those swing states, to ensure the continued support of his local supporters in the face of what is described as the progress achieved by the Democrats. Trump doubted the possibility of holding the upcoming debate with his Democratic competitor Harris, as the debate is scheduled to be held next September on the American “CBS” network.
Trump accused the host network of bias towards Harris, who requested an amendment to the rules of speaking and listening and keeping the speakers’ microphones open throughout the debate, while a spokesman for the Harris campaign said that it was ready to hold an uncensored debate, adding that Trump should stop hiding behind the closed microphone, as he put it. Trump also renewed his warnings about the future of the United States.
