Voters are no more likely to support Kamala Harris even though they think she won last week’s debate, a new ABC poll shows.
The latest ABC News/Ipsos poll, conducted after the Democratic presidential candidate’s TV showdown against GOP rival Donald Trump on September 10, showed that 58% said Harris beat Trump during the show, compared to 36% who chose the former president as the winner. .
But the poll also has Harris leading the race by a 52% to 46% margin among voters — the same margin he had with the bloc in August.
The new survey shows only a few variations when considering all respondents, with Harris, 59, out ahead 51% to 46% compared to 50% to 46% in August, and among voters only registered, which has 51% for him compared. to 47% for Trump, 78, this time, relative to 50% to 46% in August.
The debate, hosted by ABC News, was a sharp reversal for Trump compared to June’s verbal sparring with 81-year-old President Biden, with Trump emerging as the winner of the match 66% to 28%. Biden eventually bowed out of the race because of his lackluster performance.
When breaking down last week’s debate along party lines, 95% of Democrats believe Harris won, compared to 75% of Republicans who feel the same way about Trump.
Among Trump supporters, 78% called him the winner, compared to 97% of Harris supporters who thought he won.
A firm 69% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning Independents said the debate helped them view Harris more positively, while 34% of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents said the same about Trump’s performance.
During the verbal sparring, Harris worked to get under Trump’s skin and baited about the size of the crowd, as well as the charges he was facing.
Trump and his allies then attacked ABC News, blasting the debate moderator for meddling and fact-checking him, but not doing the same for Harris.
45. the president has ruled out another debate, his own style of winning on September 10. He also highlighted polls that declared him the winner of the debate.
“When a prize fighter loses, the first words out of his mouth are ‘I WANT A REMATCH,'” Trump teased on Truth Social last week before declaring “There is no third debate.”
There is still one more major political debate scheduled for this election cycle – October 1 showdown between GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, hosted by CBS News.
In the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate poll, Harris has a 1.9 percentage point lead over Trump in a multi-candidate matchup, with Chase Oliver, Jill Stein and Cornel West expected to have no more than 1%.
On debate night, another potential big development was after, pop star Taylor Swift fulfilled some of Harris supporters’ wildest dreams by endorsing the veep for president.
But most voters appeared to disapprove of Swift’s stamp, with just 6% saying the endorsement made them more likely to support Harris in the election, 13% saying it was unlikely and 81% making no difference.
Like other polls, in the latest survey, Harris scores a 9-point lead over Trump among likely female voters, 55% to 44%, while the pair is dead even among male voters at 49%.
Black voters are 89% to 9% likely to vote for Harris over Trump, as are Hispanic voters, 58% to 41%. Young voters aged 18 to 29 did so 59% to 40%.
The numbers mark a stronger showing for Trump among Hispanic voters than usual, as he has been defeated by Hillary Clinton by that bloc in 2016 by 40 points and defeated President Biden in 2020 by 33 points.
On these issues, Trump scores an advantage of about 7 points on the economy as well as inflation and a 10-point lead on immigration, while Harris has a 7-point advantage on preserving democracy, 9 points on health care and a 14-point lead on abortion.
Survey ABC News / Ipsos sample 3,276 adults and 2,196 likely voters – evenly divided between Dems, Republicans and Independents – and each group with a margin of error plus or minus 2 percentage points, between 11 and 13 September.
Interestingly, the Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll that went down on Sunday showed Harris winning Trump’s lead in the Hawkeye State by 4 percentage points, with the former president up 47% to 43%.
That’s a dramatic shift from June, when Trump toppled Biden in polls 50% to 32%. Trump dispatched Biden in Iowa by more than 8 points in the 2020 election.
