Former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris by a significant margin in a pair of new surveys taken after President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid and endorsed his second-in-command.
As noted by Newsweek, an On Point Politics Politics/SoCal Research study was carried out the day after Biden’s statement and asked 801 probable voters. Among them, 51 percent indicated their support for Trump if the 2024 contest took place today, while 43 percent chose Harris. Six percent of the respondents were still undecided.
A separate Morning Consult survey also showed Trump besting Harris 47-45 percent, the outlet reported.
While Harris is the most obvious choice, it is still unclear as to who will actually become the Democratic presidential nominee. Biden has endorsed Harris, as have a number of other leading Democrats including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a fellow Californian.
On Monday, a member of Biden’s family came forward with an explanation for why he decided to drop his reelection bid, though it hasn’t come without controversy.
According to CBS News, Frank Biden, one of two younger brothers to the president, said that Joe Biden’s declining health “absolutely” played “a considerable role” in the decision to drop out of the race, the first incumbent president to do so since Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson did so in 1968.
Shortly after Biden announced he was dropping out of the race and would not seek reelection, endorsing his vice president, Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump’s campaign put out an ad targeting the veep’s failure to control the southern border and her trademark cackling laugh.
As the video opens, it says, “Warning: The following may upset liberals who don’t want voters to know the truth about Kamala Harris,” then notes her and the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to adequately address the chaotic and virtually open southwestern border.