Kamala Harris leads over Trump in tight presidential race
According to a survey conducted on Monday and Tuesday by Ipsos and the Reuters agency, Kamala Harris has gained a two-point lead over Donald Trump in the race for the United States presidency. The US Vice President leads 44% to 42%.
8:53 AM EDT, July 24, 2024
Reuters emphasizes that the difference between Harris and Trump is within the margin of statistical error, which is 3%.
In a survey conducted on July 15-16, Harris and Trump both scored 44%, and in the survey from July 1-2, Trump led by one percentage point, with the same margin of error.
Reuters notes that the survey conducted on Monday and Tuesday showed that 56% of registered voters agreed that 59-year-old Harris is "mentally sharp and able to deal with challenges." Similarly, 49% of respondents described 78-year-old Trump in this manner. Only 22% of voters evaluated Biden this way.
Reuters adds that when voters participating in the survey were presented with a hypothetical ballot including independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Harris gained a lead over Trump 42% to 38%.
The online survey was conducted with 1,241 adult Americans across the United States.
"I know Donald Trump's type"
The theme of Kamala Harris's campaign for the US presidential election will be "prosecutor versus felon" - wrote the "New York Times" on Tuesday. Harris was the Attorney General of California, and Donald Trump has been convicted in cases involving 34 serious crimes - the newspaper recalled.
Harris has already signaled that she will use the contrast between her achievements as a prosecutor and the convictions and charges against Trump. On Monday, she said that as a former district attorney and state attorney general, she "took on perpetrators of all kinds: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters, who broke the rules for their own gain."
So, hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type. And in this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his - emphasized Harris.
The "NYT" recalled that Trump has managed to alienate certain groups, such as some educated Republican voters and middle-class women. If he continues to insult Kamala Harris in this election campaign, without mincing his words, he may definitively lose the votes of these Americans.
The former president has a habit of vulgarly and unceremoniously attacking women. He called German Chancellor Angela Merkel "that b***h," as reported by members of his former administration, and he also attacked competing female politicians like Nikki Haley and prosecutors pursuing him, such as Letitia James in New York and Fani Willis in Georgia, in very unflattering terms - the "NYT" conveyed.
