Trump tops Harris by 3 points in national survey

Former President Trump holds a 3-point lead over Vice President Harris in CNN’s first poll of the new race since President Biden ended his reelection campaign.

Trump leads Harris 49 percent to 46 percent in a head-to-head match-up, a closer race than previous CNN polls between Trump and Biden. The small lead is within the poll’s margin of error.

Democrats have quickly coalesced around Harris as the party’s new likely nominee, and 90 percent of Democrats said in the poll that they support Biden’s decision to leave the race.

About 95 percent of voters who told CNN in previous polls that they would back Biden said they would support Harris, while 92 percent of previous Trump supporters said they would stick with the former president. Of previously undecided voters, 30 percent back Harris and 27 percent back Trump.

Harris’s support is also stronger among young people, Black and Hispanic voters than previous Biden polls, CNN found.

The vice president has also made gains among independent voters over Biden, with the group breaking for Trump over the incumbent by 10 points — 47 percent to 37 percent — compared to just a 3-point edge for Trump over Harris, 46 percent to 43 percent.

The CNN poll surveyed a group of about 1,600 registered voters who had previously answered CNN polls. The new survey taken Monday and Tuesday had a margin of error of 3 percent.