Kamala Harris wins over Democrat voters but still trails behind Trump in first polls

The first few polls are out since President Joe Biden announced he would be abandoning his second bid for the White House on Sunday, with Vice President Kamala Harris set to take over as the Democratic presidential nominee.

Most polls show Harris neck-and-neck with former President Donald Trump, with Harris leading by two points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, but trailing Trump by a few points in several others.

The polls were carried out between July 21, when Biden dropped out, and July 23.

Our average of four fresh polls shows the Republican candidate just 1 point ahead of Harris; a slight improvement on Biden, who was averaging 3 points behind Trump, according to FiveThirtyEight, before he stepped down.

But the real win for Harris has been her ability to reinspire faith among the Democratic voter base, even if the headline figures haven’t yet seen the turnaround some Democrats may have hoped for.

Half of people (50 percent) planning to vote for the Democratic candidate are now voting affirmatively for Kamala Harris, with the other half voting just to keep Donald Trump out, according to the latest poll by CNN.

This is a huge improvement from late June, when the same CNN poll showed that just a third (37 percent) of Biden voters were voting for the candidate himself.

Most (67 percent) were voting against Trump at the time, demonstrating a widespread lack of conviction in Biden and the Democrats, even among their own voters.

Meanwhile, among Trump voters, people are less likely to be voting out of dislike for Harris, despite attacks from more right-wing GOP members.

In the last CNN poll, one in three Trump supporters were planning to vote against Biden. Now, this number has dropped to one in four against Harris, while