In new national polling of the 2024 race for president from Quinnipiac University, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is leading Republican pick Donald Trump by a large margin among women. All of the poll’s respondents were also likely voters.
In the Quinnipiac data, 58 percent of the women were behind Harris, while only 37 percent backed Trump. It was a nearly direct reversal among men, 57 percent of whom backed Trump compared to Harris’ 39 percent.
Among the poll’s general pool of likely voters, Harris was up by only two percentage points nationally, and that was when presidential candidates from outside the two major political parties were specifically named to survey participants. When only Harris and Trump were named, she was up by just one percent — which, in polling terms, means the two were essentially tied.
The leading margin for Harris among women in this poll is actually larger than the margin by which Democratic candidate Joe Biden was victorious among women in the 2020 presidential race, according to exit polling of that election from Edison Research. Those pollsters found Biden up among women by 15 percent. And similar in general terms to the gender difference here, Trump led among men by eight.
Now, Harris and Trump are on track for a general election debate next month with ABC News, which — assuming it actually moves forward — will come on the heels of substantial uncertainty about whether and how it would unfold at all. Most recently, the Harris and Trump teams have been at apparent odds over whether the candidates’ microphones would be left active when it’s not their turn to speak. Harris’ team was in favor of doing so. It’s Trump himself who sent a 2020 election debate off the rails with incessant interruptions.
Harris “wants the American people to see an unfettered Donald Trump, because that’s what we’re going to get if he becomes president again,” Harris campaign advisor Ian Sams recently stated.
