New polling at the national level from Marquette University Law School finds a lead for Democratic contender Kamala Harris from six to eight percent over Republican nominee Donald Trump among likely voters, depending on the list of candidates presented to poll participants.
With Harris, Trump, and several presidential contenders outside the major parties named to survey participants, Harris had 50 percent of the support, while Trump had 42 percent. When just the two major party candidates were named, Harris had 53 percent of the support, while Trump nabbed 47 percent, putting the Democrat ahead of Trump by still six percentage points — which is larger than the national winning margin for Joe Biden in the popular vote from 2020, when he also won the electoral college and became president.
The second set of data includes respondents who said they were leaning towards one of the candidates.
The polling is part of a continuing wave of data showing promising results for Democrats after Harris took over for President Joe Biden in this year’s presidential race. Biden withdrew from the election amid questions about his age and endorsed Harris, though contrary to claims and insinuations from Trump, Biden is very much still serving as president, intending to finish his current term in office.
Harris, meanwhile, recently announced her choice for running mate in this year’s election: Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz. The two already hit the campaign trail, with high-profile Harris campaign events in Pennsylvania and Michigan already on the books and more stops on the way. Like when Harris herself first started running for president, Walz quickly got an outpouring of support from Democrats across the party.
