Quinnipiac poll finds Harris with two-point lead over Trump after convention
Vice President Harris and former President Trump are neck-and-neck in a new survey following the Democratic National Convention.
The Quinnipiac University poll found Harris with 49 percent of support among likely voters, giving her a 2-point lead over Trump who received 27 percent of support.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver each received one percent of support, according to the poll.
In a two-way race, Harris received 49 percent of the vote while Trump receives 48 percent.
"Conventions done, debates in the planning, rhetoric getting rougher, there's a slight numerical difference, but it is essentially a tie as the presidential race roars toward November 5th," Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said in the press release
The poll found that slightly more Democrats support Harris than Republicans support Trump.
Ninety-eight percent of Democrats said they support Harris while 94 percent of Republicans support Trump. Independent respondents were evenly split, with Harris and Trump each receiving 45 percent.
Quinnipiac also noted that there is a significant gender gap, with Harris having a 21-point lead over Trump among women and Trump holding an 18-point lead over Harris among men.
This poll comes as other recent polls show Harris with a slight edge over Trump.
The new Emerson College/The Hill poll showed the vice president narrowly ahead of Trump in the battleground states of Georgia, Michigan, Nevada. A separate poll from Fox News also showed Harris leading Trump in three of the four key Sun Belt states,
The Hill/Decision Desk HQ's national polling average shows Harris with nearly a 4-point lead over Trump, according to the aggregate of 145 polls.
The results for the Quinnipiac University poll were based on responses from 1,611 likely voters between Aug. 23 and Aug. 27. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.