According to new polling from Bloomberg and Morning Consult, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is leading Republican nominee Donald Trump by a large margin in the state of Wisconsin. That Midwestern locale was a swing state in the last presidential race, moving from a Trump win in 2016 to a victory for Democratic contender Joe Biden in the election four years later that put Biden in the White House.
When just Harris and Trump were named for the Wisconsin respondents, Harris had 52 percent of the support to Trump’s 44 percent. Adding candidates for president from outside the major political parties dropped Harris’ lead in these rounded figures by just one percentage point.
Since taking over for Biden in this year’s race for the White House after the incumbent stepped aside in late July from that election, Harris has already campaigned in Wisconsin multiple times. That includes a Milwaukee rally on the same night that last week’s Democratic National Convention over in Chicago was moving through another roll-call vote among delegates formalizing the party’s general election nod for Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, who’s currently the Minnesota governor.
For that event, Harris and Walz actually used the same venue that Republicans employed for their own national convention the prior month making Trump’s already expected nomination official.
And after the convention, Harris swiftly returned to the campaign trail, stopping this week in Georgia for a bus tour and a rally in Savannah. Democrats narrowly won Georgia in the most recent presidential election, and there is already polling from this cycle following Harris’ ascent that suggests they could be on their way to accomplishing the same feat again. New polling circulated by Fox News found Harris up in Georgia by two percentage points.
