New survey data from Public Policy Polling finds Vice President Kamala Harris — now this year’s presumptive Democratic presidential nominee — leading Republican nominee Donald Trump by one percentage point in Georgia, which current President Joe Biden narrowly won in 2020, breaking a long streak of GOP victories there in presidential elections.
Specifically, Harris had 48 percent of the support, while Trump nabbed 47 percent in the new polling. In polling terms, that margin is not large enough to make a sweeping generalization about the current state of the presidential race in Georgia, but if it carries over to the actual general election results, it is — although small — still enough to hand the Democrat the state’s electoral votes. Five percent of the Georgia respondents said they were undecided.
The results — which showed a Trump lead against Harris elsewhere in the examined selection of swing states — were first published by The Hill, a political news organization.
Harris took over as Democratic presidential torchbearer after the recent withdrawal from this year’s presidential election of President Joe Biden, who endorsed Harris to take his place. She quickly assembled the support from Democratic convention delegates needed to head towards the nomination, and a series of party leaders who might have challenged her for the nomination endorsed her instead. Now, she must choose a running mate — a selection reportedly on track for public reveal just days in the future, with more campaign trail appearances following.
Grassroots support also quickly grew, with the Harris campaign notching a wild $200 million in fundraising across just its first week.
