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Vice President Kamala Harris is beating rival Donald Trump in a national presidential poll released late hours of Tuesday.
Harris holds a two-point lead over Trump, 44 per cent to 42 per cent, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll
It was conducted days after Joe Biden announced his stepping down from the race and endorsing his vice president.
In the previous week’s poll, Harris, 59, and Trump, now the elder in the presidential race at 78, were tied at 44 per cent.
Harris, the overwhelming frontrunner for the Democratic nomination who is raking in endorsements and donations as well as pledged delegates, narrowly trails Republican flag-bearer Trump in another survey also released Tuesday.
Both results are within the polls’ margins of error.
In a PBS News/NPR/Marist poll conducted on Monday, Trump edged Harris with 46 per cent to 45 per cent of US registered voters, with nine per cent undecided.
If third-party candidates or independents are included in the contest, Trump and Harris are tied at 42 per cent, with the others far behind.
The PBS News survey notably found that 87 per cent of all Americans think Biden’s decision to drop out was the right move, a view that crossed partisan and generational lines.
