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Harris leads Trump by 5 points in Ipsos poll
The poll found Harris had widened her lead since a July 22-23 Reuters/Ipsos survey.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump 42 to 37 percent in the race for the Nov.5 U.S. presidential election, according to an Ipsos poll published on Aug.8. / Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump 42 to 37 percent in the race for the Nov.5 U.S. presidential election, according to an Ipsos poll published on Aug.8.
The poll found Harris had widened her lead since a July 22-23 Reuters/Ipsos survey, which found her up 37 to 34 percent over Trump.
The nationwide poll of 2,045 U.S. adults, conducted Aug. 2-7, found 4 percent of those surveyed backed independent candidate Robert Kennedy Jr., down from 10 percent in July.
Ipsos conducted the August poll independently from Reuters. The poll, conducted online, had a margin of error of around 3 percentage points.
In a separate poll, Ipsos found Harris leading Trump 42 to 40 percent in the seven states where the election was closest in 2020: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. That result did not break out results for individual states.
Harris entered the race on July.21 when President Joe Biden, 81, folded his campaign and endorsed Harris following a disastrous debate performance on June.27 against Trump.
Reuters/Ipsos polls had mostly shown Biden and Trump tied while the president was still in the race, though Biden was performing worse than he had at the same point in the 2020 election, in which he defeated Trump.
PATRIOT' AND 'WEIRD'
The August Ipsos survey found more voters associated Trump than Harris with the word "patriot" - a regular part of Trump's campaign speeches - as well as with "weird," a word that Harris supporters have used to taunt Trump in recent weeks.
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