Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump among all generations: poll

Kamala Harris is now in the lead among Generation X, Generation Z, millennials, baby boomers and silent/older generations in a new poll.

Less than three weeks before the presidential elections on November 5th, attention is focused on what the polls say. In general, there are incredibly narrow marginal lanes on both sides, suggesting a neck-and-neck race.

But a new Marist poll shows that Harris holds the lead among all generations surveyed between October 8 and 10.

Around 53% of Generation Z (people born between 1997 and 2012) and Generation Y (born between 1981 and 1996) said they supported Harris, more than 47% said they supported Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, Harris enjoyed a 55 percent advantage among baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) and the Silent/Greater Generation (born between 1901 and 1927), over Trump’s 45 percent.

Harris also led among these generations in the previous Marists poll, conducted between September 27 and October 1, but Trump had a 53% majority among Generation X (those born between 1965 and 1980).

However, Trump has lost this lead in the most recent Marist poll, which shows Gen X split with 51% for Harris and 48% for Harris.

Marist surveyed 2,021 adults, made up of registered voters and likely voters, and the poll has a margin of error of +/- 2.17 percentage points.

It also says that, among registered voters questioned, 38 percent were Democrats, 33 percent were Republicans and 28 percent were independents. Among likely voters, 40% were Democrats, 33% Republicans, and 26% independents.

News week reached out to the Trump and Harris teams via email outside of normal work hours for comment.

This comes as Trump appears to have gained some momentum in recent polls in swing states.

Polling averages compiled by 538 show that in recent weeks, Trump has widened his lead in Arizona, overtaken Harris in North Carolina and tied in Nevada. The former president also reduced Harris’s lead in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Trump had a significant lead in national polls over his Democratic opponent when the party’s presidential nominee was President Joe Biden.

But that changed in July, after Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris, who quickly closed the gap in several polls.

As of Wednesday, the vice president led Trump by 2.4 percentage points in the FiveThirtyEight national average, down from a 3.3-point lead on Sept. 18.

Likewise, Harris was ahead with 49.3, compared to Trump’s 46.5, according to statistician Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin blog.

RealClearPolling had Harris at 48.7 percent, 1.5 points ahead of Trump, who had 47.2 percent support.

University of Kentucky political science professor D. Stephen Voss said News week that the polls “would go up and down a little between now and Election Day.”

He said: “The temptation will be to try to assign interpretations to every swing up or down in a candidate’s polls, but most of the time, short-term fluctuations in the polls are not significant. the same way voters do.”