With less than two weeks left in the White House race, a new poll shows former President Trump has a slight advantage over Vice President Harris.
Wall Street Journal pollA poll released Wednesday showed Trump leading with 47% to Harris' 45%. The vice president had a 2 point lead in the magazine's August poll. Both poll results were within the margin of error.
Since the August survey, views of Harris have become more negative. Two months ago, voters viewed her equally favorably and negatively. According to the poll, 53% said they had an unfavorable view of the Democratic candidate, and 45% said they were unfavorable.
Harris, who launched her campaign in the wake of President Biden's resignation, was riding on the excitement and relief of Democrats who had been nervous that the incumbent would lose the election. She has soared since officially becoming the Democratic Party's nominee at the party's convention in August, but has struggled to maintain that momentum.
Voters in the latest poll gave Harris the worst job rating compared to the Journal's previous two polls. According to the data, about 54% of respondents said they disapproved of her work in the office, while 42% said they supported it.
But views of Republican candidates have improved. Voters are now more likely to remember President Trump's time in office positively than at any other point in the election cycle, with 52% approving and 48% disapproving, the poll found.
Trump also ranks highly among voters when asked about the candidate's agenda and policies. The survey found that respondents generally had a more positive view of the former president's economic plan than the vice president's proposals.
As the campaign approaches its final stages, Harris and Trump are struggling to win every possible vote, mainly in battleground states, in what is expected to be the closest presidential race.
Nationally, the vice president leads his Republican rival by 0.9 percentage points (48.7 percent to 47.8 percent), according to a Hill/Decision Desk Headquarters poll tally.
The magazine's survey was conducted among 1,500 registered voters from October 19th to 22nd and has a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points.
