Vice President Kamala Harris, now this year’s presumptive Democratic nominee for president, is surging in a series of swing states, new Bloomberg/Morning Consult polling reveals.
The polling grouped registered voters from seven such states, finding Harris in the lead by one percent. The Democratic contender saw the same leading margin both when she and Trump were the only two candidates named to poll participants and when others outside the two major parties were also included. In the head-to-head match-up, Harris had 48 percent of the support, with Trump finishing at 47 percent.
“Kamala Harris has wiped out Donald Trump’s lead across seven battleground states, as the vice president rides a wave of enthusiasm among young, Black and Hispanic voters,” said a new write-up of the polling from Bloomberg. Previous polling from the same sources found President Joe Biden, when he was still the expected Democratic nominee for the year, trailing Trump by two percent in these states.
Biden stepped aside from the election after weeks of questions about his advanced age, endorsing Harris to take his place, and there was only a brief period of serious uncertainty about whether that would translate to the second-in-command actually succeeding. She got the support from convention delegates to head towards the nomination, and a slew of Democratic Party figures who might have tried challenging Harris endorsed her presidential campaign instead.
The pollsters also separated pools of registered voters from the states they included, and when considering the states individually, Harris was leading in Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan, and Arizona. And she and Trump were tied in Georgia, according to the rundown provided by elections data site FiveThirtyEight. Notably, other new survey data from Public Policy Polling found Harris leading Trump in Georgia by a percentage point.
