Vice President Kamala Harris, who was gifted the Democratic Party nomination thanks to President Joe Biden pulling out of the race amid much controversy concerning cognitive fitness, got some bad news on Thursday. A new poll from McLaughlin & Associates, published on Wednesday, revealed that Harris is trailing former President Donald Trump by the same margin Biden was when he was the nominee. I wonder if the Democrats are having buyer’s remorse yet?
Breitbart reported that the poll has Trump at 47 percent while Harris is sitting at 45 percent among a total of a thousand likely voters. An additional 8 percent of survey respondents said they are undecided. The two-point lead enjoyed by Trump is the same he had against Biden in a June survey from McLaughlin & Associates. That poll was done in the days just prior to the now infamous debate that ultimately led to Biden’s exit.
2024 National GE:
Trump 47% (+2)
Harris 45%
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Trump 42% (+1)
Harris 41%
Kennedy 8%
West 1%
Stein 1%
Oliver 1%McLaughlin & Associates, 1,000 LV, 7/23-29https://t.co/TwQMBuQvAF
— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) July 31, 2024
In that survey, conducted June 18-24, 2024, Trump led Biden 46 percent to 44 percent. Another ten percent were undecided. Obviously, much has happened since then. Trump was nearly assassinated and selected his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), at the high-energy Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During the same gap between polls, top Democrats, donors, and Hollywood elites forced Biden out as the presumptive nominee after his disastrous debate performance imperiled not only his reelection bid but down-ballot Democrats, followed by the left and media hyping Harris.
In other words, the poll indicates Democrats are right back where they were before the debate, when the Biden campaign trotted the president out for a June debate — an unprecedented move for an incumbent and an indicator of how dire prospects seemed for them at the time.
When it comes to Trump supporters, 38 percent of them say they will absolutely, without a doubt support him in November. Six percent said they’re pretty likely to vote for him, with another three percent saying they lean his direction. With Harris, 38 percent said they will vote for her, with four percent admitting they’re likely to support her, and three percent are leaning her way.
Things are very close when it comes to independents. A total of 41 percent back Trump, while 40 percent are on board for Harris. One in five independents have yet to make up their mind.
Trump maintains an edge over Harris in a deeper field, which includes independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others. The 45th president scores 42 percent support to Harris’s 41 percent. Kennedy garners eight percent of the response, while Libertarian Chase Oliver, the Green Party’s Jill Stein, and independent Cornel West tie at one percent.
The results from the larger field also mirror McLaughlin & Associates’ June poll, though Trump’s edge has dwindled by a marginal one point since then. He took 39 percent to Biden’s 37 percent, while Kennedy scored ten percent in that survey. West and Stein tied at two percent, Oliver took one percent, and nine percent were undecided.
The latest survey from the group was conducted between the dates of July 23-29, 2024. The margin of error for the poll was not revealed.