Vice President Kamala Harris lost support after the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, according to a Redfield & Wilton Strategies poll.
The results show that his campaign is running out of steam.
The poll, released Monday, found that 44 percent of the 2,500 likely voters surveyed Aug. 29 support Harris over former President Donald Trump, who has 42 percent of the vote. Eight percent are undecided, while four percent would vote for another candidate. The margin of error was not provided.
Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump by 2% nationally.
🇫🇷 Voting intentions for the presidential election (August 29):
Kamala Harris: 44% (-3)
Donald Trump: 42% (-2)
Others: 4% (+4)
I don’t know: 8% (+4)Changes +/- August 21https://t.co/WwIDmmNfAX pic.twitter.com/69oc5nXy98
— Redfield & Wilton Strategies (@RedfieldWilton) September 2, 2024
Harris is down three points from a Redfield & Wilton poll conducted on August 21, the third day of the DNC, while Trump is down two points. That’s a net swing of one point in Trump’s favor, showing no improvement for Harris since she accepted her party’s nomination.
The current poll also shows that Trump’s latest indictment over his challenge to the 2020 election results has not hurt his prospects. Additionally, the poll reveals how Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departure from the campaign and his support for Trump has affected the race.
The share of undecided Americans in this poll is four percentage points higher than the August 21 poll, which gave Kennedy 3 percent of the vote. The “other” option also increased by four percentage points, indicating that lesser-known third-party candidates have attracted some of Kennedy’s support.
According to a Redfield & Wilton poll conducted at the time, the race between Trump and Harris is much closer than the one between Trump and President Joe Biden at a similar point in the 2020 election cycle. The Aug. 20, 2020, survey of 2,000 people found Biden with a 10-point lead over Trump.
In the poll, Biden and Trump received 49% and 39% of the vote, respectively. Nine percent of the vote was undecided, while three percent went to third-party candidates. Harris underperformed Biden by five points, while Trump surpassed his previous score by three points.
The latest poll found that the most influential issues were the economy, immigration and abortion. When asked to choose the three issues that would have the most impact on their vote, 62% chose the economy, 36% immigration and 34% abortion.
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