<p>After President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/world/us-presidential-elections-2024-joe-biden-opts-out-of-race-3115062">ended his reelection bid</a> and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic Party’s nomination, questions have turned to her electoral viability — and how she might perform against former President Donald Trump.</p><p>Across recent polls, Harris trails Trump by 2 percentage points nationally on average, 46 per cent to 48 per cent.</p><p>This is an improvement over Biden’s standing in the race: He trailed the Trump by 3 percentage points in the polling average, 47 per cent to 44 per cent.</p><p>In recent swing state polls, taken before Biden announced he would withdraw from the presidential race and completed before the assassination attempt on Trump, Harris was only down by 1 percentage point in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania in a hypothetical matchup with Trump. And she was winning by a more comfortable 5 percentage points in Virginia, a state where Biden was up by only a razor-thin margin.</p><p>In both states, Harris performed slightly stronger than Biden with Black voters, younger voters and women — all groups that Democrats need in order to be successful this fall. And, importantly, those are groups where Biden appeared to be losing ground.</p>.Donald Trump says Kamala Harris will be easier to defeat than Joe Biden.<p>As recently as April, Harris was polling substantially behind Biden’s standing, but she has gained ground in recent surveys.</p><p>At the same time, increasing shares of Democrats had said that they wanted Biden to step aside. In an AP-NORC poll conducted July 11-15, nearly two-thirds of Democrats said they wanted the president to withdraw and allow the party to select a different candidate. On Sunday, they got their wish.</p>
<p>After President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/world/us-presidential-elections-2024-joe-biden-opts-out-of-race-3115062">ended his reelection bid</a> and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic Party’s nomination, questions have turned to her electoral viability — and how she might perform against former President Donald Trump.</p><p>Across recent polls, Harris trails Trump by 2 percentage points nationally on average, 46 per cent to 48 per cent.</p><p>This is an improvement over Biden’s standing in the race: He trailed the Trump by 3 percentage points in the polling average, 47 per cent to 44 per cent.</p><p>In recent swing state polls, taken before Biden announced he would withdraw from the presidential race and completed before the assassination attempt on Trump, Harris was only down by 1 percentage point in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania in a hypothetical matchup with Trump. And she was winning by a more comfortable 5 percentage points in Virginia, a state where Biden was up by only a razor-thin margin.</p><p>In both states, Harris performed slightly stronger than Biden with Black voters, younger voters and women — all groups that Democrats need in order to be successful this fall. And, importantly, those are groups where Biden appeared to be losing ground.</p>.Donald Trump says Kamala Harris will be easier to defeat than Joe Biden.<p>As recently as April, Harris was polling substantially behind Biden’s standing, but she has gained ground in recent surveys.</p><p>At the same time, increasing shares of Democrats had said that they wanted Biden to step aside. In an AP-NORC poll conducted July 11-15, nearly two-thirds of Democrats said they wanted the president to withdraw and allow the party to select a different candidate. On Sunday, they got their wish.</p>