National Poll Tightens After Conventions to Virtual Tie

A new Emerson College Polling national survey finds Vice President Kamala Harris with 49% support, and former President Donald Trump with 47% support among likely US voters. Three percent are undecided, and 1% plan to vote for someone else. In the last week of August in the 2020 Election, the Emerson national poll found President Biden similarly ahead of Trump by two points, 49% to 47%. 

“The 2024 presidential race currently mirrors 2020, with the Democratic lead narrowing from four points to two in national polls,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said. “In 2020, Biden re-established his four-point lead in late September ahead of the first debate; now, we’ll see what impact the debate has on the trajectory of this race.”