- Harris narrows gap with Trump
- Harris leads in key battlegrounds
- Deadlocked race in crucial states
According to freshly disclosed polls, United States Vice President Kamala Harris has erased former President Donald Trump’s lead in the White House campaign, leaving the Democratic and Republican nominees deadlocked.
According to a series of polls released on Tuesday, Harris has closed the gap with Trump both nationally and in key battleground states since becoming the de facto Democratic nominee following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election.
A Bloomberg News/Morning Consult survey of registered voters shows Harris ahead of Trump in four crucial battleground states while the former president leads in two.
According to the survey, Harris has an 11-point edge against Trump in Michigan and two points in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada.
Trump leads by four points in Pennsylvania and two in North Carolina, while the two candidates are deadlocked in Georgia.
Apart from Michigan and Pennsylvania, all findings fall within the margin of error.
If the poll results were held on election day, the candidate who won Georgia would be elected president.
According to a study commissioned by the Democratic super PAC Progress Action Fund, Harris leads Trump 48 percent to 47 percent in Georgia. In contrast, Trump leads by two points in Arizona and Pennsylvania.
The polling results, initially reported by The Hill, were within the margin of error.
A nationwide Reuters/Ipsos survey shows Harris leading Trump 43 percent to 42 percent, within the margin of error.
The surge in favorable polls comes as Harris quickly gathered Democratic support following Biden’s decision to step down after months of bad polling fueled by questions about his age and fitness.
Harris was formally proclaimed the Democratic nominee on Monday. She will likely pick her running mate in the coming days before heading on a tour of swing states that will decide the election on November 5.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, among others, have been mentioned as potential vice presidential candidates.
During a Tuesday campaign speech in Atlanta, Georgia, Harris stated that the race’s momentum was turning and that Trump was “feeling it.”
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Harris, who has criticized Trump’s legal problems and policies on healthcare and abortion, pushed her opponent to uphold his promise to debate her in September after the Republican claimed he could “make a case” for skipping the event.
“Well, Donald, I do hope you’ll reconsider meeting me on the debate stage,” she interrupted. “Because as the saying goes, ‘If you’ve got something to say, say it to my face.'”
Since Biden’s departure radically altered the race, Trump has attempted to paint Harris, who ran to the left of her boss during her failed 2020 presidential campaign, as a contender with extremist views on topics such as immigration and abortion.
During a campaign rally in North Carolina last week, Trump referred to the former California senator as a “radical left-liberal, San Francisco extremist” and claimed that she made Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, appear moderate in comparison.
During a campaign speech in Nevada on Tuesday, Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, reiterated the message.
“We don’t want a wacky San Francisco liberal serving as commander in chief,” Vance told reporters. “We don’t want Kamala Harris.”
