Vice President Harris’s slim national lead over former President Trump narrowed after the vice presidential debate last week, a new survey on Monday found.
Harris is leading Trump by two percentage points, ahead 48 percent compared to the former president’s 46 percent in a Yahoo News/YouGov poll conducted after the debate between Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio).
In the same survey conducted after the presidential debate, Harris polled five percentage points ahead of Trump, at 50 percent compared to his 45 percent.
The Yahoo News/YouGov poll included 1,714 U.S. adults and was conducted Oct 2 to 4. The debate, on which voters were closely divided over who had the better night, was on Oct 1.
Meanwhile, polling suggested that Harris was the winner of the presidential debate on Sept. 10, and her campaign has since pushed for a second debate against Trump. Trump has rejected the idea.
Her sharp performance though fell short of moving the needle in key swing states needed to win in November. Nationally, Harris currently holds a 3.4 percentage point lead over Trump, according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ aggregate polling, which has grown just slightly since the day before the debate, when she had a 3.2 percentage point lead.
The Yahoo News/YouGov poll has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
