Four weeks before the polls, polls suggest that it will be one of the closest elections in the United States.
Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States and Democratic candidate for the White House Image internet.
Democratic candidate for the White House, Kamala Harris, is slightly ahead nationally over her Republican rival, Donald Trump, according to several polls, with four weeks to go before the US elections, the local press reported on Tuesday (08.10.2024).
The 59-year-old Democratic vice president has an average of 49% of voting intentions nationwide, compared to Trump’s 46%. But this is no guarantee of victory on November 5.
In the United States, presidential elections are organized by indirect universal suffrage and are actually played in a handful of hotly contested states, from Arizona to Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia, and Wisconsin.
And the two candidates remain very evenly matched, poll after poll, in a campaign peppered with shocks, from Donald Trump’s criminal conviction to President Joe Biden’s retirement.
Harris Maintains Lead in Three New Polls
Forbes said on Tuesday that the Democrat leads her Republican rival by 46% to 43% in a four-day Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday.
In another poll, this time from the New York Times/Siena published on Tuesday, Harris also leads by 49% to 46%, marking the first time she has beaten Trump in polls of these groups since July.
Meanwhile, in the weekly Morning Consult poll, also released Tuesday, Harris leads by five points, consistent with her position in last week’s Morning Consult poll.
The Democrat seduces part of the Republicans
The Democratic vice president is trying to win over a part of the Republican electorate based on the hypothesis that some moderates do not want another presidency for the 78-year-old millionaire. Image internet
With a vague but centrist electoral program, the Democrat held a rally last week with former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, repudiated by Trump.
And on Tuesday, she reiterated her intention to appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if elected in the Nov. 5 presidential election.
A strategy that seems to be working.
In The New York Times poll, conducted with Siena College, the candidate gets the support of 9% of Republicans, compared to 5% before.