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U.S. presidential election: Harris leads Trump in first poll taken since Biden quit (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 3 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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"Vice President Kamala Harris opened up a marginal two-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her," the Reuters/Ipsos poll found. "The poll, conducted on Monday and Tuesday, followed both the Republican National Convention where Trump on Thursday formally accepted his party's nomination and the Biden announcement on Sunday he was leaving the race and endorsing Harris."

Harris led Trump 44 percent to 42 percent in the Reuters national poll. Though the difference was within the margin of error (3 percent), it's an improvement on a Reuters poll taken July 15-16, before Biden quit the race, which tied the Biden/Harris campaign with Trump at 44 percent.

Also positive for Harris: "When voters in the survey were shown a hypothetical ballot that included independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Harris led Trump 42 percent to 38 percent, an advantage outside the margin of error. Kennedy, favored by 8 percent of voters in the poll, has yet to qualify for the ballot in many states ahead of the Nov. 5 election."

It's also an improvement on a Reuters poll taken July 1-2, when Trump led Biden by one percentage point.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This isn't surprising to me.

The last few days have felt like Obama fever all over again, which is a good and a bad thing in my book.

It's good in the sense that Trump is way too Nazi-Adjacent for me to think his loss would be a bad thing. It's a bad thing because Harris, like Obama and Biden, will be a billionaire's president if elected, and the US will therefore become more fascist, not less.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How are they a billionaire's president but Trump wasn't? His cabinet singlehandedly undid more regulations and taxes on corporations than maybe any other.

Who are the billionaires? Cause it seems that Kamala is heavily against fracking, so I'm guessing not the oil billionaires?

Not trying to be dismissive, genuinely curious

[–] BarryZuckerkorn@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Plus the net worths of Trump's cabinet is basically the highest in history:

Betsy Devos (Education): $2 billion
Wilbur Ross (Commerce): $600 million
Steve Mnuchin (Treasury): $400 million

Linda McMahon is worth $3 billion but was "only" SBA administrator, not a cabinet secretary.

Jared Kushner is from a family whose net worth is in the billions between all of them, and he got his dad a pardon.

Let's not forget major donors like the Adelsons, the Kochs, and everyone else.

Yes, Democrats have some billionaires on their side, but the balance isn't even close.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

Why does it not surprise me that Betsy DeVoss, sister to Black Water's Erik Price, is a multi-billionaire who singlehandedly undid more for education in this country. Awesome.