Ipsos Poll: Democrat Kamala Harris Leads Republican Donald Trump 42% to 37% in U.S. Presidential Race

Washington, August 9 :
The U.S. presidential election is scheduled for November 5th, and an Ipsos poll released on August 8th shows that Democrat Kamala Harris has a 42 percent lead over Republican Donald Trump. According to the poll, Harris's lead over Trump has grown since a Reuters/Ipsos survey conducted between July 22 and 23, which showed her ahead by a margin of 37% to 34%.

Robert Kennedy Jr. received 4% of the vote as an independent, down from 10% in July, according to a national survey of 2,045 American adults carried out between August 2 and 7.

The August poll was conducted by Ipsos, not by Reuters. There was a margin of error of about 3% for the online survey. In a different survey, Ipsos discovered that in the seven states where the 2020 election was most closely contested—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—Harris had a 42–40 percent edge against Trump. There was no breakdown of results by state in that outcome.

After President Joe Biden (81), who had a horrible debate performance against Trump on June 27, decided to fold his candidacy and endorse Harris, Harris joined the race on July 21. Even while Biden was doing worse than he did at the same point in the 2020 election, when he beat Trump, Reuters/Ipsos polls largely showed that the two were deadlocked while the president was still running.

In a recent Ipsos poll, more people linked Trump than Harris with the term "patriot"—a term that appears frequently in Trump's campaign speeches—and with the adjective "weird," which has been used by Harris's followers to insult Trump.