A new poll shows former President Trump leading Vice President Harris in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, sparking rumors swirling that she could replace President Biden as the Democratic nominee.
Latest Emerson College Poll Among registered voters, Trump has 49 percent support, while Harris has 43 percent, giving the former president a six-point lead. Eight percent are undecided.
Harris received the same number of approval ratings as Biden, who also received 43 percent approval ratings over Trump, but Biden’s 43 percent was three points behind Trump’s 46 percent, with 11 percent undecided.
Biden has faced calls from within his party for him to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race and be removed as the Democratic nominee after his disastrous performance in the first presidential debate last month.
Post-debate polls have been mostly bad news for the incumbent president, and there’s even a chance that Trump could win Democratic states like Virginia and Minnesota in the fall.
Trump also leads in hypothetical races against the eight Democrats and independents who have emerged as potential candidates to replace Biden, with a six-point lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a seven-point lead over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and an eight-point lead over California Governor Gavin Newsom (D).
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Al Gore, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer all followed Trump in receiving additional testing.
But a new poll from Democratic pollster Bendixen & Amandi showed more promising results, with VP Harris leading President Trump by one point, with 42% approving of her and 41% approving of President Trump, with 5% of voters choosing a third party candidate and 12% undecided.
A recent CNN poll also showed her favored more closely with Trump than Biden, trailing the former president by just two points while Biden was six points behind.
As the Democratic Party’s August national convention approaches, Biden has rejected calls for him to step down as a candidate.
“The Democratic Party has spoken. I am the Democratic nominee. And I will be the party’s nominee,” Biden told donors on a recent conference call. “We can’t waste any more time being distracted.”
The Emerson College Poll’s national survey was conducted July 7-8 among 1,370 registered voters and has a confidence interval, similar to a poll’s margin of error, of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.
