Harris tops Trump by 5 points nationally: Poll

Vice President Harris is leading former President Trump by 5 points nationally, a new poll found.

The survey, conducted by NBC News, found Harris leading with 49 percent support to Trump’s 44 percent.

While the result is within the poll’s margin of error, the outlet noted it’s a shift from a survey conducted in July when President Biden was still in the race.

In July, 12 percent of voters said they didn’t want to vote for either Trump or Biden. Now, that number has sunk to 7 percent.

Compared to the previous polling that had Biden earning 43 percent support, Harris has gained ground and is nearing the 50 percent threshold while Trump has lost 1 percentage point of support.

Harris has seen huge gains in favorability as voters get to know her.

Since July, she’s jumped 16 points in favorability, the largest increase for a politician in an NBC News survey since then-President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks, the outlet noted.

The survey noted some Republicans who were Trump voters in 2016 and 2020 showed similar signs of disdain for their candidate but came back to vote for him in the end, signaling some of Trump’s polling may not be reflective of how people will vote in a few weeks.

Harris’s surge nationally may be driven by her campaign efforts in battleground states. A CBS News survey released Sunday showed she slightly improved her lead over Trump in battleground states after the presidential debate.  

The NBC News poll was conducted Sept. 13-17 among 1,000 voters and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.