Vice President Kamala Harris has the edge over former President Donald Trump in the first national poll released since Tuesday night’s debate in Philadelphia.
The survey, commissioned by The Post from Leger, shows Harris with the support of 50% of likely voters, with Trump garnering 47% following the ABC News forum. The remaining 3% said they would vote for someone else
Crucially, the gap between the two candidates is outside the poll’s margin of error of plus-or-minus 2.7 percentage points.
Half of the respondents who watched some portion of the debate said Harris was the winner, while 29% said Trump had gotten the better of the VP and 13% said neither candidate had won the showdown.
Notably, 60% of respondents who watched the debate described it as “good,” compared to just 42% who gave the same rating to the June 27 debate between Trump and President Biden. Another 29% of debate viewers gave it a “bad” grade, compared to 49% who said the same of the Trump-Biden debate.
Tuesday’s forum, held at the National Constitution Center in the City of Brotherly Love, drew more than 60 million viewers, according to preliminary data from Nielsen — up from the more than 51 million estimated to have watched the Trump-Biden showdown.
The 81-year-old commander-in-chief’s halting, confused performance at the June debate set in motion an internal revolt among Democrats that culminated in Biden ending his re-election bid July 21 and making way for Harris.
The Leger survey found that if Biden had remained in the race, he would be trailing Trump by eight percentage points among likely voters (46%-38%), with 9% saying they would vote for someone else and 6% saying they wouldn’t know who to support.
The Leger survey was conducted online Sept. 10-11 following the debate and surveyed 1,174 Americans who will vote or probably vote in the Nov. 5 election.
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