Former President Donald Trump is maintaining his lead nationally, seemingly shrugging off a burst of enthusiasm for Democrats after Vice President Kamala Harris entered the race.
Trump garnered the support of 48% of likely voters, compared to 47% who indicated support for Harris, according to the latest results of the New York Times/Siena poll released on Sunday.
The results are essentially identical to the last time the New York Times/Siena poll asked voters for their preference in the aftermath of President Biden dropping out of the race in late July, with that poll also showing Trump with a 48-47 lead.
The poll comes after weeks of increased enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket after Harris took over for Biden, though the New York Times argued that it appears Trump’s support is “remarkably resilient” to the stunning changes to the election landscape.
The poll found that Harris has yet to sell voters on her vision for the country, with 28% of respondents indicating that they felt like they needed to know more about her in order for her to earn their support. In contrast, only 9% indicated similar concerns about Trump.
“I don’t know what Kamala’s plans are,” said Dawn Conley, a 48-year-old small-business owner in Knoxville, Tenn., who is leaning toward Trump, told the New York Times.
The poll also found that while Harris has made gains with key demographics to the Democratic coalition after Biden’s decision to drop out, she is still falling short of traditional Democratic strength among groups such as women and Latino voters.
Also working against Harris is the voters’ preference for change, with 60% indicating they would like to see a major change from the policies of Biden. Only 25% of respondents said Harris would represent that kind of change, while 53% believe that Trump would.
But the poll’s news wasn’t all bad for Harris, who may hold the critical enthusiasm lead over Trump as November quickly approaches.
The poll found that 91% of Democrats were enthusiastic about voting, while 85% of Republicans indicated the same.
The New York Times/Siena poll surveyed 1,695 registered voters between September 3 and September 6 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
It’s hard to believe America has been split basically 50/50 for the last several elections. I remember the Walk Away Campaign when President Trump first ran and thousands of people were leaving the Dems, many minorities and women too, yet somehow it remains split 50/50.
They have to keep the fake polls close so Obama can cheat again.has anyone polled you ..Why is Obama still so involved? He has a apartment in dc.
He owns a house in DC he never left,He had a wall built around it.
Ted… He is so involved because he is the henchman for the puppetmaster!! His administration was also bought and paid for!! That’s where this crap all started to become more of a plan to take down America…
he made this statement…”We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” This was his marching orders!!
We all know Biden and Harris were just patsies!
Another person nailed for illegal voting from 2016 2020 and deported how many ks are doing this ?The demos are thieves and traitors to do this to our country ,and know they can not win the right way .Millions of illegals coming because the demos want to stack the deck to win the election .at your tax payers expense. Wake up people you will not like what is to come down the road with commies in charge of us look at history fools follow fools .
Polls are bullsh*t! They are used to sway those voters on the fence! Ignore the polls and vote for America’s future! Vote Trump! The demorat party already threw democracy out the window when they forced Biden out and installed Harris as their puppet. They are not for democracy, they are for demorats!
Harris election will be informally terminated this Tueday. Because she has to face her her worst nightmare, debating Trump