By EFE
31 Jul 2024, 00:38 AM EDT
Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has a lead over former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump in voting intention in several key states, according to a survey published by Morning Consult.
Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump by a wide margin in Michigan, with 53% support compared to 42%; the same is true in Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin.
Trump leads Harris in Pennsylvania with 50% support to 46%, as well as in North Carolina. According to the Morning Consult poll, the two are tied in Georgia.
The survey was conducted online between July 24 and 28 among nearly 5,000 registered voters in those seven states, which are considered more relevant than the rest, since support for the Democratic and Republican candidates is similar.
Support for Harris surges
According to Morning Consult, Vice President Harris’s notable gains in Michigan come after support increased among groups where President Joe Biden had previously performed poorly, such as young voters, Democrats and independents; improvements that extend to the general electorate in key states.
Forty-six percent of respondents have a favorable view of the potential Democratic nominee, up five percentage points from the previous poll, when Biden was still a presidential candidate. And those who said they had an unfavorable view have dropped three points, to 50%.
After Biden dropped out of the re-election race on July 21 and called for a vote for Kamala Harris in November, the 59-year-old vice president has aroused such fervor that she has already raised $200 million and gathered some 170,000 volunteers for her campaign.
Last week, a poll by The New York Times and Siena College already showed Harris’s advance in voting intention, placing Trump just one percentage point ahead of her (48% versus 47%) at the national level.
In the previous survey of these institutions, which was conducted at the beginning of the month, Trump was ahead of Biden by six percentage points.
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