For more than two months, Vice President Kamala Harris has led her party on a dizzying turnabout from despair to euphoria, with many Democrats believing that she was just the savior they needed to deliver them from former President Donald Trump. A New York Times/Siena College poll released on Monday confirms that Harris has improved upon President Joe Biden's performance, while also showing that, far from running away with the election, she remains locked in a dead heat with her GOP rival.
According to the poll of likely voters reached by cellphone, Trump leads Harris nationally by one percentage point, at 48-47, within the three-point margin of error. Their standing is largely unchanged from the last Times/Siena poll taken at the end of July, just after Harris replaced Biden atop the Democratic ticket, an indication that Trump's support has not fractured despite a slew of bad headlines and increasingly fevered rhetoric from the former president.
