New polling from RMG Research — the president of which is Scott Rasmussen, known as a conservative — finds Vice President Kamala Harris far ahead of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the two’s expected general election match-up later this year. Harris recently took over as Democrats’ torchbearer for this year’s election after the withdrawal from that race of President Joe Biden, who endorsed Harris’ subsequent campaign.
The polling, which the company said was completed July 31, found Harris with 47 percent of the support, while Trump had 42 percent. It was at the national level and included registered voters. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is running as an independent, ended up with six percent.
Though presidential elections are decided on a state-by-state basis through the electoral college rather than nationally, that margin for Harris is near the national margin with which Biden finished in the 2020 election, winning an electoral college majority and becoming president. National-level election results can provide somewhat of a barometer for the eventual electoral college outcome.
Harris also already started getting positive results in state-level data, including Bloomberg/Morning Consult polling that put her a whopping 11-12 percent ahead of Trump and a Public Policy Polling survey that found Harris narrowly leading Trump in Georgia by a margin of one percent.
Harris now must choose her running mate, an announcement expected in coming days. Figures floated as possibilities include a handful of Democratic governors, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, all of whom have recently been making themselves freshly prominent in media interviews and out on the campaign trail — ultimately further boosting Harris’ campaign reach.
