After the debate, Kamala Harris increased her lead in the polls over Trump to 5 percentage points and led him 47-42 percent, according to an Ipsos poll for Reuters. The last similar study by Ipsos showed a four-point lead for the Democratic candidate.
On Tuesday night local time (it was 3 a.m. in Poland), a televised debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump took place in Philadelphia. It turns out that Harris slightly increased her lead over Trump. He leads 47:42 percent.
A majority of Ipsos respondents (52%) picked Harris as the winner of Tuesday’s debate. Only 24 percent decided Trump won. These results were consistent with other studies conducted after the debate.
Yet Ipsos poll does not suggest candidate clash will have a fundamental impact on presidential race. In the latest national poll of likely voters, 47% plan to vote for Harris and 42% for Trump. That’s more than the 3% margin of statistical error, but only 1 percentage point higher than a similar poll in late August.
Other studies published after the debate indicate a similar lack of significant change. In a poll by the right-wing New York Post tabloid conducted by Leger, Harris leads Trump by 3 percentage points, but despite the vast majority of respondents considering her the winner of the debate, her lead over Trump has narrowed by 1 percentage point compared to the August poll after the Democratic convention in Chicago. In a poll by another pollster, SoCal, conducted on behalf of a Republican-affiliated center, Harris has increased her lead by 1 percentage point compared to the previous August poll.
