Former President Donald Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris by 2 percentage points nationally. Daily Mail/JL Partners research report.
The survey examines the race between Trump and Harris, who was selected as the front-runner by Democratic Party leaders without the help of actual Democratic voters. Curiously, some Democratic leaders, such as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Still insisting This was a grassroots decision.
Nonetheless, Democratic Party elites Officially Nominations On Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, Democrats will select Harris as the party’s presidential nominee, displacing 14 million Democrats who voted for President Joe Biden in the primary.
Polls continue to churn out new showdowns that pit Trump, not Biden, against Harris, with the 81-year-old Biden’s performance in his final debate with Trump signaling his political demise.
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Latest Daily Mail investigation show Trump leads Harris nationally by two percentage points, with 43 percent approval and Harris at 41 percent, but the two-point difference is outside the margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. Daily Mail “The November election is being described as nail-biting.”
The outlet also cited a separate survey which found that more respondents saw Trump as the “stronger” and “more charismatic” candidate.
James Johnson, co-founder of JL Partners, said that while Harris has made gains among younger voters, black voters and independents, Trump has a more active base, and that Trump “has held his own among white voters, Hispanics and those over 50.”
“Harris’s biggest supporters remain among 18-49 year olds, largely due to Trump’s advantages on the economy and the border,” he said, adding, “But at this point it looks like it’s going to be a much tighter contest than a sure thing for Harris to win.”
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The poll comes as Trump predicts that Harris’ honeymoon in both the polls and the mainstream media may finally be coming to an end.
“Yeah, it’s over. The honeymoon period is over,” Trump told reporters at a news conference on Thursday. “She’s having a little bit of a moment. We have our convention coming up.”
“It’s not about her. I look at her and I think she’s incompetent. She’s destroyed California. She’s destroyed San Francisco. Everything she touched has turned bad,” he said, explaining that the election is about policy.
“I don’t want to use foul language, but everything she’s been involved in has gone bad. She’s incompetent,” he added.
Harris has yet to hold a press conference since Biden dropped out of the race and selected her as his successor.
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JL Partners conducted the poll from August 7 to 11, 2024 among 1,001 voters.
