Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris leads Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in two recent opinion polls.
15:10•Updated 15:35
Recent opinion polls by both USA Today media and Suffolk University, Reuters news agency and Ipsos market research company say that the US Democratic presidential candidate Horrible Harris leading the presidential race.
In a poll by USA Today and Suffolk University 48 percent of likely voters would now vote for Harris. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump 43 percent of the respondents would vote, i.e. Harris’ lead is no less than five percentage points.
The poll’s margin of error is 3.1 percentage points.
In an opinion poll by Reuters and Ipsos 45 percent of registered voters would vote for Harris. 41 percent of likely voters would vote for Trump. The poll’s margin of error is 2 percentage points.
What makes the poll lead particularly significant is that in the USA Today and Suffolk University opinion polls, the Democratic Party’s situation has turned completely upside down in a couple of months.
Even at the end of June, Donald Trump was leading the Democratic presidential candidate at the time Joe Biden by four percentage points.
During two months, the popularity of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate has increased by almost nine percentage points.
The answers to the now completed opinion polls have been received during or after last week’s Democratic Party convention. Harris made a significant policy speech at the party meeting.
The news is updated
The story has been corrected on 29 August 2024 at 15:30.