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Shock national poll shows candidate taking the lead in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris has opened up an eight-point lead over Donald Trump, according to a stunning new poll.
Among likely voters, Harris is on 50 percent and Trump 42 percent, the Marquette Law School Poll published on Wednesday found.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on 6 percent, Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver on 1 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein 1 percent.
Among the youngest voting block of 18-29-year-olds, Harris has a massive 42-point lead with 71 percent preferring her candidacy compared to 29 percent who say they will vote for Trump.
The poll was conducted July 24 through August 1, meaning the results did not include opinions on Harris’ new running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who joined her campaign on Tuesday.
Results also indicate that Harris has not necessarily given Democrats a higher chance of victory in November.
Among likely voters Harris is on 50 percent and Trump 42 percent, the Marquette Law School Poll published on Wednesday found
When registered voters were asked who they would have cast their ballots for if Joe Biden remained in the race, 43 percent said the president to 47 percent who said Trump and another 11 percent said they did not know.
Both Harris and Biden are 4 percentage points ahead of Trump among registered voters in this poll.
The results Thursday come a day after another poll showing Trump and Harris neck-and-neck in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
With just 17 days under her belt as the lone 2024 Democratic candidate, Harris has made-up some ground that President Joe Biden was slipping against Trump.
But among registered voters, 50 percent say they would cast their ballot for the former president if the election were held today, according to a new Marquette University Law School poll released on Wednesday.
Harris is only behind by one percent, which falls well within the survey's 4.6 percent margin of error.
But when all likely voters are considered, the results flip on their head giving Trump 49 percent against the vice president's 50 percent.
A new poll shows Donald Trump with a slim one-point percent advantage among registered voters – but the results flip on their head when all likely voters are taken into account
Wisconsin is one of the seven battleground states that will determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. The others are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Four of the last six presidential races have been decided in Wisconsin by less than a percentage point – making the state one of the most pendulum of swing states.
When Biden was still in the running, he was falling behind Trump in Wisconsin by around 3 percentage points and up to 6 percent, in some cases, according to tracking from FiveThirtyEight.
The poll released on Wednesday and taken July 24 through August 1 is the first Marquette has taken in Wisconsin since June.
Since the last polling, the U.S. political landscape has dramatically changed with President Joe Biden ending his reelection bid and Harris taking over his campaign infrastructure.
Donald Trump also announced last month that he selected Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate.
Trump is looking to win back Wisconsin after the state flipped blue in 2020 from red in 2016
Harris said on Tuesday that she selected her vice presidential candidate as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – and the two appeared for a tandem event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
The latest Wisconsin polling was taken before Harris made her selection, meaning no opinion was included about the new VP pick.
If Biden had remained the candidate, the Marquette poll suggests that Trump would have pulled ahead by a five-point gap – 47 percent to 42 percent – meaning that Harris is giving the Democratic ticket an advantage.