Many Americans remain supportive of the unfolding presidential campaign from this year’s Democratic Party nominee, Kamala Harris, who is also currently the vice president. Since taking over for President Joe Biden in late July after the latter withdrew from this year’s race amid questions about his age and endorsed her, Harris has seen a consistent stream of promising poll results, improving in some areas on Biden’s standing against Donald Trump.
And in this instance, Harris is also improving on some of her own prior poll numbers against Trump.
In national polling undertaken by Clarity Campaign Labs just after the switch-up in the Democratic Party, Harris led Trump by only one percentage point. But now, she’s up by six percent — which if repeated in the actual election results in November would improve upon the national margin by which Biden won in the 2020 race for president. Though presidents are not picked purely based off the national popular vote, it can still provide a partial indication of the outcome in the electoral college.
The newer polling, among likely voters, found Harris with 51 percent of the support and Trump at 45 percent. Three percent of respondents said they were not sure who they would back.
The possibly most prominent presidential candidate from outside the major parties in this election cycle — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — recently dropped out and endorsed Trump… much to his famous political family’s frustration.
“The stakes this November couldn’t be higher, which is exactly why my entire family, with the exception of Bobby, will be fighting so hard to re-elect Kamala Harris and Coach Walz, who have been champions for our family values for years and years and years,” Kerry Kennedy, a sister of Robert’s, said on CNN. “Donald Trump is the polar opposite. He’s a threat to our most basic freedoms that are core to who we are as Americans, the right for women to control their bodies, to live in communities safe from gun violence, to love who you love.”
