Harris slightly improves Biden’s poll numbers, but still lags behind Trump

The latest polls on the presidential elections in USA show slightly better numbers for the vice president, Kamala Harrisalthough also, like the president Joe Bidenwould lose the election against the Republican Donald Trump.

These polls were conducted before President Biden announced Sunday that he was not seeking re-election, so when asked by Harris, the respondents were responding to a hypothetical situation.

The most recent, a YouGov poll for CBS News, gave Trump a five-point lead over Biden (52% to 47%) and just three over Harris (51% to 48%).

Another from NBC News gave the same two-point lead for Trump (45% to 43% with Biden and 47% to 45% with Harris), while one from Fox News gave the same result of 49% to 48% in favor of the former president regardless of his rival.

The Marist poll for NPR and PBS was the only one that gave a majority to the Democratic ticket and, in this case, gave a better advantage to Biden over Trump (50% to 48%), than to Harris over Trump (50% to 49%).

Although the overall result is important, what really matters in the US elections are the key states, such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia or Arizona.

In a survey of Siena for The New York TimesHarris was outperforming Biden in Pennsylvania and Virginia.

In Pennsylvania, Trump led Biden by three points (48% to 45%) and Harris by just one point (48% to 47%), while in Virginia the vice president led the Republican by five points (49% to 44%), two more than Biden (48% to 45%).

As for popularity, Harris has a 38.3% approval rating according to FiveThirtyEight’s polling aggregate, very similar to that of Biden (38.6%) and below Trump (42.1%).

Harris, however, has the lowest unpopularity rating of the three with 51.4%, compared to 56.2% for Biden and 53.3% for Trump.