Kamala’s winning or tied in all polls.
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Vice President Kamala Harris has scored her fifth polling win in 24 hours, narrowing former President Donald Trump's lead with just over 100 days left until Election Day.
A poll released on Friday by The Wall Street Journal found that Harris had all but eliminated Trump's lead, with the vice president trailing the former president by a 49 percent to 47 percent margin in a head-to-head matchup. The poll has a 3.1 percent margin of error.
When independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy is included, the poll found that Harris overtakes Trump and has a slight lead, 45 percent to 44 percent. Kennedy was the choice of only 4 percent of respondents, while 5 percent were undecided.
President Joe Biden, who dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris on July 21, was losing to Trump by 6-point margins in both head-to-head and multi-candidate versions of the Wall Street Journal poll taken earlier this month.
While early polling suggests that a Trump-Harris contest will likely be close, the momentum seems to have quickly shifted to Harris. The vice president has amassed mostly small but significant gains in at least four other polls of battleground states and young voters on Thursday and Friday.
Dan Lamb, a senior lecturer at the Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University, told Newsweek, "Harris won the week with strong speeches, viral social media" and important endorsements, predicting that her polling position may improve further in the near future.
"It's hard to see the buzz letting up, with attention turning to her VP pick and the DNC's delegate voting starting in early August," Lamb added. "After that comes the DNC convention. The next several weeks could be very favorable for her polling."