Former President Trump is outpacing Vice President Harris in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up, according to new polling, as discussions about possibly replacing President Biden on the Democratic ticket intensify.
The latest Emerson College Polling survey shows Trump with 49 percent support compared to Harris’s 43 percent among registered voters, giving the former president a 6-point lead.
Another 8 percent of voters were undecided.
Harris garnered the same level of support as Biden, who also scored 43 percent against Trump.
However, Biden trailed the presumptive Republican nominee by 3 points, with Trump leading 46 percent to Biden’s 43 percent, and 11 percent of voters remaining undecided.
Biden is facing increasing calls from within his own party to step down from the 2024 race after his poor performance in the first presidential debate last month.
Post-debate polls have generally been unfavorable for Biden and could potentially pave the way for Trump to win traditionally blue states like Virginia and Minnesota in the upcoming election.
Trump is also leading in hypothetical head-to-heads against eight other prominent Democratic and independent figures considered as potential replacements for Biden.
He leads by 6 points over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), 7 points over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and 8 points over California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Al Gore, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer all trail Trump in additional tests.
However, a new poll from the Democratic pollster Bendixen & Amandi Inc. offers more encouraging news for Harris, putting her ahead of Trump by 1 point.
Harris scores 42 percent to Trump’s 41 percent, while 5 percent of voters picked a third-party candidate and 12 percent were undecided.
A recent CNN poll also found Harris running closer to Trump than Biden, trailing the former president by just 2 points, while Biden lagged behind by 6 points.
Biden has been fending off calls to step down from the ticket as the Democrats’ national convention in August approaches.
“The Democratic Party has spoken. The Democratic nominee is me. And I’m going to be the nominee of the party,” Biden told donors in a recent call.
“We can’t waste any more time being distracted.”
The Emerson College Polling national survey was conducted July 7-8 among 1,370 registered voters and has a credibility interval, similar to a poll’s margin of error, of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.
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