Washington:
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has increased her lead over Republican Donald Trump in the battle for victory in the US presidential election on November 5, according to several polls conducted after the televised debate between the two candidates on September 10.
Harris, widely seen as having outpolled Trump in the debate, now holds a 47% lead over her Republican rival, 42%, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Sept. 11-19.
According to the latest Economist/YouGov poll, the 59-year-old leads the White House race by four percentage points among registered US voters. It is reportedly the largest lead a presidential candidate has gained in a weekly Economist/YouGov poll in almost a year, since US President Joe Biden led Trump 45% to 40% in the September 23-26, 2023, poll.
Before the debate, Harris, who succeeded her boss Biden as the Democratic nominee, had a two percentage point lead in the Economist/YouGov poll.
Real Clear Politics, which gave Harris a 1.4 point lead over her 78-year-old opponent on September 10, has now increased that lead to two points (49.3 percent to 47.3) on September 19.
According to polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight, the Democrat now has a lead of about three percentage points, up from two percentage points before the debate.
Silver Bulletin also reported that Harris now has a more than three-point lead over Trump.
According to Nielsen data, the debate, hosted by ABC News, drew more than 67 million television viewers, up from 51 million who watched the debate between Trump and then-presidential candidate Biden in June.
Biden's disastrous performance in that debate forced the 81-year-old leader to abandon his re-election bid, which he did in July.
