A new poll shows Vice President Harris holding a 9-point lead over former President Trump among younger voters, marking the latest shift in support from a demographic that President Biden struggled to capture before dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.
According to a SocialSphere survey: Democratic super PACs will not shrink their PACs; Ms Harris received 51% of support from 18-29 year olds in battleground states, compared with 42% from that demographic, with 7% undecided about which candidate to support.
Pollsters noted that Harris has increased by 13 points since an early July poll in which Trump had a 48 percent to 44 percent lead among this group.
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The same trend is evident in the five-candidate race, with Ms. Harris leading Mr. Trump by nine points (42 percent to 33 percent) and the remaining candidates, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein, all receiving single-digit support among young people. Ms. Harris’ support is up 10 points from President Biden’s approval rating last month, when Mr. Trump led Ms. Harris by one point (32 percent to 31 percent) among young people.
The vice president’s approval rating has also risen 16 points since July to 49%. In the latest poll, Harris’ approval rating is nine points higher than Trump’s, at 40%.
Since replacing Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee in late July, Harris has bolstered her party’s support base and seen her popularity rise in the polls against Trump. Thousands attended her rally last week, which her campaign has touted as a counterweight to Trump, who has long relied on crowd size as a measure of support.
The Socialsphere survey isn’t the only poll offering good news for Harris.
A Morning Consult poll released last week found Biden leading Trump by nine percentage points among voters under 35 and 48 percent to 44 percent overall. The same poll also found Biden trailing Trump by nine points among younger voters.
The poll, conducted by Socialsphere, interviewed 1,313 people between the ages of 18 and 29 between Aug. 2 and 5. The data was based on 1,044 registered voters and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
