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Candidate Takes A Five-Point Lead In The 2024 Race

by Summer September 1, 2024 0 comments

By: Summer

Kamala Harris has taken a five-point lead over Donald Trump with just 63 days until election day.

The USA, Today/Suffolk poll, released on Tuesday shows the vice president has flipped the script of the 2024 race since President Joe Biden dropped out.

In the same survey in May, Biden and Trump were tied. But a surge in enthusiasm from Democrats has strengthened Harris’s advantage.

Almost 70 percent of the party are now excited about voting for Harris, more than double Biden’s standing from June.

The results show that the debate a week from today is pivotal for both candidates. 

With just a week until the candidates’ first televised debate, Harris leads Trump 48 percent to 43 percent, according to the new USA Today/Suffolk Poll survey.

And only one in 10 voters say they are either undecided or might change their mind before Election Day in November.

In the same May polling, when Joe Biden was still the Democratic candidate, Trump and the president were tied at 37 percent.

The latest polling was conducted among 1,000 likely voters August 25-28, the week after the Democratic National Convention in Chicago resulted in Harris’ nomination for president.

ABC News is hosting the first debate between Harris and Trump on September 10 in Philadelphia. The CNN debate between Trump and Biden earlier this summer is what sunk the president’s reelection bid.