A new national poll conducted entirely after Tuesday’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump indicates Harris leading Trump by five points.
According to a Reuters/Ipsos survey conducted two-day poll, Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, has the support of 47% of registered voters nationwide. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, lands the backing of 42% of registered voters questioned.
The five-point advantage for Harris is up slightly from a four-point margin in the previous Reuters/Ipsos poll, which was conducted in late August, prior to the debate.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump shake hands before their debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday. (Doug Mills/The New York Time/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The survey indicates that voters agree with political pundits in saying that Harris bested Trump during their Philadelphia showdown, which was their first and potentially only presidential debate.
Fifty-three percent of survey respondents who said they had heard at least some of Tuesday’s debate said that the vice president had won, with just 24% saying that the former president was the winner.
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The poll surveyed 1,690 adults nationwide, including 1,405 registered voters. The survey had a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for registered voters.
Former President Trump departs a campaign event at the Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee, Wisconsin, on Saturday. A recent poll has Trump trailing Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in the battleground state. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
With seven and a half weeks until Election Day and early voting getting underway this month in some of the key battleground states, most national surveys and swing state polls indicate a margin-of-error race between Trump and Harris, who enjoyed a wave of momentum in the weeks after replacing President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket in mid-July.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, holds a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Harris, at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday, reiterated to her supporters that “ours is going to be a tight race until the end.”
“We are the underdog,” she emphasized. “We’ve got some hard work ahead of us… hard work is good work.”
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in New Hampshire.
