Vice President Kamala Harris failed get a boost in support following the Democratic National Convention, leaving the 2024 horse race essentially unchanged after the four-day Democratic gathering, according to a new poll.
The ABC News/Ipsos survey, released Sunday, found Harris with a slight four-point lead over former President Donald Trump among registered voters and all US adults, 50%-46%. Among likely voters, the 59-year-old vice president’s advantage was 6 points, 52%-46%.
“The race between them remains close, with no overall bounce in support for Harris out of her nominating convention,” Gary Langer, president of Langer Research Associates, the company that produced the poll, said of the results.
Presidential candidates are typically expected to receive a surge in support in the weeks after their party conventions, where glowing praise is showered upon them during the nationally televised events.
Langer noted that his poll also found Trump “bounce-free” after the Republican National Convention in July, which he said was indicative of “the locked-in nature” of the contest.
The post-DNC poll found Harris widened her lead with women to 13 percentage points, up to 6 points.
The vice president, however, lost support from men.
Prior to the DNC, men backed Harris by 3 points (49%-46%) and now they are supporting Trump by 5 points (46%-51%), the poll found.
On the issues, voters still have greater trust for Trump to handle the economy (by 8 points), inflation (by 8 points), immigration (by 9 points) and the Israel-Hamas war (by 7 points) compared to Harris.
The Democratic nominee was considered by voters to be better equipped at tackling health care (by 10 points), protecting democracy (by 7 points) and combating gun violence (by 6 points) than Trump.
More voters were also willing to say Harris, whom Trump has labeled as a Marxist, is “too liberal” to be president (46%) than indicate Trump is “too conservative” (43%).
This ABC News/Ipsos poll, conducted between Aug. 23-27, had a margin of error of 2 percentage points.
