There is now even more polling from the 2024 presidential election showing promising results for Democrats, who are now resting their hopes for the race with Vice President Kamala Harris, the party’s new pick. Earlier this week, Harris unveiled her choice for running mate: Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz, and she swiftly embarked on a campaign swing through seven states, starting that very night.
And the fresh poll results with good signs for Democrats come this time from The New York Times and Siena College, who apparently found slim leads for Harris among likely voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, although the nature of polling adds — as always — an uncertainty layer. But all three of those states are known, at least lately, as swing states, moving from wins for Donald Trump in the 2016 race to Biden’s column the next time around.
“Likely voters want next year to be the first year of President Harris & another year of Defendant Trump,” remarked MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell on X about the new poll numbers.
An average of national polling from the elections data website FiveThirtyEight has Harris in the lead by about two percentage points. Again, these numbers aren’t enough to assert that Harris is on her way to a somehow definite victory, but for starters, some of the data rather directly reverses a polling slump experienced by President Joe Biden before he withdrew from this year’s election in late July and essentially handed the reins to Harris.
Trump is still talking about an imagined scenario in which Biden tries to get back the nomination after all, but there’s no indication of anything like that coming down the rhetorical pipe. It’s Trump against Harris. And in the meantime, Biden is very much still the president, contrary to claims and insinuations from an antagonistic Trump.
