In new polling from ABC News and Ipsos, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris leads Republican pick Donald Trump among all adults, registered voters, and likely voters.
The biggest lead for Harris was among the respondents deemed “likely voters,” with whom she was up by six percentage points, which is larger than the margin by which Democratic candidate Joe Biden won the national popular vote in the 2020 presidential election, which put him into the White House.
In both of the other groups, Harris led by four. The polling was begun the day after the recently held Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where the party formalized — again — their general election nod for Harris, who is currently the vice president, and her running mate, Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz.
Harris and Trump are now set for a general election debate this month with, actually, ABC News: their first such face-off, taking place after Harris took over for Biden in late July following the incumbent withdrawing from this year’s race for the White House and endorsing his second-in-command to take his place.
Although Trump talked, for some reason, about an imagined scenario in which Biden tried to get back the nomination after all, there was never any real-world indication of that actually happening, and Biden spoke in Harris’ favor — again — at that recent convention. Harris also got the support of a selection of Republicans including former Congressman Adam Kinzinger.
“Donald Trump is a weak man pretending to be strong,” Kinzinger told the Democratic convention crowd. “He is a small man pretending to be big. He’s a faithless man pretending to be righteous. He’s a perpetrator who can’t stop playing the victim. He puts on quite a show, but there is no real strength there.”
