Polls Suggest Kamala Harris Losing Ground To Donald Trump As Election Nears
With only weeks to the Presidential election, polls suggest that Kamal Harris is losing grounds to Donald Trump. As per three polls released in last Sunday, Harris’ lead over Trump is vanishing or narrowing down. According to the latest polls, Harris holds a 1.4 percent point lead in Real Clear Polling’s aggregate of major polls, a slip from 2.2 earlier.
In NBC News’ latest poll, the Democratic and Republican nominees are tied nationally at 48 percent ahead of the November 5 vote. This is a turnaround from a five-point lead for Harris in the same survey last month.
According to latest polls of ABC News/Ipsos poll Kamala Harris leads 50 percent to 48 percent among likely voters. The Democrat led 52 percent to 46 percent in the same poll last month.
This month’s CBS News/YouGov poll shows Harris up 51 percent to 48 percent among likely voters, while compared with a four-point advantage last month.
The new poll figures popped up amidst rising concern among the Democrats that Harris is failing to gain support among Hispanics and African Americans, two of the party’s key constituencies.
As per the New York Times/Siena College polls released on Saturday and Sunday, Harris attracted the support of 78 percent of Black voters and 56 percent of Hispanic voters, the number is significantly lower than what has been won by the Democratic nominees in the 2020 and 2016 elections.
Last week, former President Barak Obama admonished Black men for not showing as much enthusiasm for Harris’s candidacy as he had received during his campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
“You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses, I’ve got a problem with that… “Because part of it makes me think – and I’m speaking to men directly – part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that”, Obama said at a campaign event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is one of the seven key states that might decide the election result.
(With inputs from agencies)
