Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates

Vice President Kamala Harris is making a bid for the White House with running mate Tim Walz after replacing President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket just a few months before Election Day.

A new poll suggests that Harris has the only positive approval rating of any candidate, and leads in almost all battleground states.

So how will Harris actually fare against Donald Trump and his vice-presidential pick, JD Vance, this November?

Harris now has a 2.8-point lead over Trump in the latest average of national polls, collated by FiveThirtyEight.

On average, Harris has been marginally ahead of Trump in national polls, though the race remains tight.

A fresh poll from Emerson College (August 12-14) shows that Kamala Harris is the only candidate of whom voters have an overall favorable opinion, at +2 per cent.

This is significantly more positive than both Trump and his running mate Vance, who have a net -10 unfavorable rating, according to the poll of 1,000 US likely voters.

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Meanwhile, VP pick Walz Has an overall neutral favorability rating, with 39 per cent of voters holding a favorable view and 39 per cent holding an unfavorable view.

Interestingly, one in five voters (22 per cent) said they had never heard of Walz, a week after his selection. For JD Vance the number was lower, at 12 per cent.

When asked how much they approve of incumbent Joe Biden is doing as President, voters showed net disapproval of -14 per cent.

In the seven battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — the war is still being waged between Democrat and Republican campaigns.

Research from the Cook Political Report show that Harris