Most polls indicate a tight race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
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The presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is close to a dead heat just six weeks before the election, according to a string of post-debate surveys that found voters believe Harris outperformed the president in last week’s debate—but not enough to significantly shift the race in her favor.Key Facts
Harris and Trump are tied at 47%, according to a New York Times/Siena poll of likely voters released Sept. 19 that found the majority of voters in every demographic gave positive reviews of Harris’ debate performance, with 67% overall saying she did well, compared to 40% who said the same about Trump (Trump led Harris 48%-47% in Times/Siena surveys from early September and late July).
Two other polls from Sept. 19 show Harris with a slight edge: She’s up by four points (49%-45%) in a YouGov/Economist survey of registered voters, and two points (50%-48%) in Fox News’ likely voter survey, a small shift after Harris trailed by one point in an early August Fox poll and led by just two points in an early September YouGov poll.
Harris led Trump by three points, 48% to 45%, with 8% undecided, in a new Forbes/HarrisX survey of 3,018 registered voters taken Sept. 11-13 (margin of error 1.8), after the two were tied at 45% with 10% undecided in a pre-debate HarrisX survey of 1,003 registered voters taken Sept. 9-10 (margin of error 3.1).
In a Monmouth University poll of 803 registered voters taken Sept. 11-15 (margin of error 3.
