New York (Web Desk/Agencies): US Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the Democratic presidential nominee, took a narrow lead over former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump in the latest national survey conducted by The New York Times and Siena College.
According to the poll released on Tuesday, Ms. Harris takes a 3-point lead over Trump, 49% to 46%, in a head-to-head match-up among likely voters with the elections less than a month away.
Ms. Harris also maintains her 3-point edge over Trump in a multi-candidate race, 47% percent to 44%
Meanwhile, Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver each get 1 percentage point, with no other candidate exceeding half a point, as per the poll.
The vice president also pulled ahead of her Republican opponent when respondents were asked which candidate “represents change” more: 46% said Ms. Harris, 44% said Trump, 2% said both, 4% said neither and 4% said they did not know or refused to answer.
Ms. Harris’s lead was most significant on the question of representing change among non-white and younger likely voters.
The poll further showed that 61% of non-white viewed Harris more as the change candidate, while 29 percent viewed Trump in that way.
Among likely voters under 30, 58% saw the Democratic nominee as representing change, while 34% said the same of the former president.
The poll marks the first time since July that Harris has led in the Times/Siena survey, pollsters noted. Last month, shortly after the two candidates faced off on the debate stage, Harris and Trump were tied nationally at 47%.
Entering the final stretch before the Nov 5, election Day, the race is historically close. It will likely be decided by the outcomes in seven key battleground states, where the margins between the two candidates are close enough to favour either one.
The latest Times/Siena poll was conducted from Sept. 29 to October 6 among 3,385 likely voters. The margin of sampling error is 2.4% points.