Vice President Kamala Harris has enjoyed a string of poll wins in the days since her official nomination as the Democratic presidential nominee, including gains in several key battleground states this November.
According to the latest polls from Bloomberg News and Morning Consult, Harris is currently leading or tied with former President Donald Trump in seven key swing states this fall. The survey, which was conducted between August 23 and 26, included responses from at least 450 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The results are another sign of the momentum behind Harris since launching his campaign late last month. According to a report from Morning Consult, when compared to a Bloomberg News poll in April, swing state voters who now return to Harris are 15 percent more likely to say they would vote for the Democratic candidate than to vote for Trump.
Harris also now holds a slim lead in six battleground states – Georgia. (49 to 47 percent), Michigan (49 to 46 percent), Nevada (49 to 45 percent), North Carolina (49 to 47 percent), Pennsylvania (51 to 47 percent) and Wisconsin (52 to 44 percent) — vice president tied with Trump in Arizona at 48 percent, according to a Bloomberg/Morning Consult survey. The poll has a margin of error of 3 percent to 5 percent.
Earlier this week, a poll from Fox News also found that Harris has closed the gap to Trump in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, which are all states where Biden trailed the former president by at least 5 percentage points in previous polls from Fox. .
Harris’ biggest jumps are in Georgia and Nevada, where he now leads the former president by 2 percentage points, according to a Fox News poll. Back in April, Biden lost Georgia by 6 points, and in June the president trailed by 5 points in Nevada.
Harris also has a 1-point lead in Arizona, where Biden trailed by 5 points in June. Trump leads the vice president by 1 point in North Carolina but has beaten Biden by 5 points, according to a February poll from Fox.
The vice president has also made inroads with Hispanic voters in recent weeks, a key voting bloc that has been teetering toward Trump in recent elections. On YouGov/The Economist poll released Wednesday, 56 percent of Hispanic registered voters said they preferred Harris, while 34 percent supported Trump.
In the same poll released in late July, Harris only led Trump by 6 percentage points (44 percent to 38 percent) among Hispanic voters.
Among voters nationally, Harris has also taken or widened his lead in three polls released this week. According to the latest survey by the Florida Atlantic University Political Communication and Public Opinion Research Lab (PolCom Lab), Harris leads the presidential race by 4 percentage points, while a month ago the vice president trailed Trump by 5 points in the same poll. .
In the Big Village poll conducted between August 23 and 28, Harris was up 7 percentage points (50.4 percent to 43.4 percent) among voters, and up 6 points (48.4 percent to 42.4 percent) among voters. among registered voters.
A separate USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Thursday found the vice president leading Trump by 5 percentage points (48 percent to 43 percent). The same survey also found Harris increasing Biden’s poll numbers among Black, Hispanic and younger voters, all key voting blocs for Democrats.
As of Thursday night, FiveThirtyEight placed Harris 3.5 percentage points above Trump on average in national polls.
When reached earlier in the week to comment on Harris’ polling success, the Trump campaign took aim Newsweek to a July 23 memo written by conservative pollster Tony Fabrizio, who at the time warned of a “Harris honeymoon” after the vice president entered the 2024 campaign.
Newsweek The Harris campaign was emailed Monday night for further comment.
