Harris erases Trump's lead on economy among younger Americans, CNBC/Generation Lab survey finds

• Vice President Kamala Harris has erased Donald Trump's lead on the question of who would handle the economy better, a new CNBC Generation Lab survey of younger Americans finds.
• If the presidential election were held today, the latest poll found Harris holding a 12-point lead over Trump among younger Americans, 46% to 34%.
• More than two-thirds of younger Americans say the economy is heading in the wrong direction, but they do not appear to blame Harris for this.

Younger Americans do not appear to hold Vice President Kamala Harris responsible for what many of them believe is a worsening U.S. economy under the Biden-Harris administration, according to a new survey from CNBC and Generation Lab.

The latest quarterly Youth & Money Survey, taken after Biden dropped out of the race in July, reveals that 69% of Americans between 18 and 34 years old believe the economy is getting worse under President Joe Biden.

But they also think the candidate best able to improve the economy is the de facto Democratic nominee Harris, not Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump.

Harris was viewed as the best candidate for the economy by 41% of poll respondents, while 40% chose Trump, while 19% said the economy would do better under someone else, like third party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The results amount to a seven-point swing in Democrats' favor on the economy since CNBC asked the same question in May's Youth & Money Survey. At that time, only 34% of respondents believed Biden, then the likely Democratic nominee, was the best candidate to boost the economy, with 40% choosing Trump and 25% saying Kennedy.

The shift in voting support for Harris is even wider among respondents overall. If the presidential election were held