Vice President Harris’s favorability numbers have increased since she became the Democratic presidential nominee, with half of voters now viewing her favorably, according to a poll released Thursday.
Fifty-percent of voters have a favorable view of Harris in a survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Meanwhile, 44 percent have an unfavorable view in the survey, which was conducted within the past week.
That is flipped from late July, days after President Biden exited the race but before Harris officially became the Democratic nominee. Then, 47 percent held an unfavorable view of the vice president while 46 percent had a favorable one.
Harris quickly gathered support among Democrats to become the party’s pick for president after Biden dropped out on July 21.
Trump remains underwater in his favorability numbers, according to the poll released Thursday. He was viewed unfavorably by 57 percent of adults and favorably by 41 percent in the previous AP-NORC poll. In the latest survey, 58 percent viewed him unfavorably and 38 percent favorably.
The latest poll found 38 percent of voters overall said they think Harris will win the November election while 28 percent said they think Trump will win. Twenty percent said both have an equal chance and 14 percent said they didn’t know enough to say.
A majority of voters in the poll, 57 percent, said they think Trump would not make a good president, while views of Harris were more split: 44 percent said she’d make a good president and 41 percent said she would not.
The poll did not explicitly ask voters who they support in the race. A pair of separate surveys released Thursday showed Harris and Trump deadlocked nationally as they battle in a handful of key swing states that will determine the outcome in the Electoral College.
The latest survey of 2,028 adults was conducted Sept. 12-16 via online and telephone. Of those adults, 1,771 self-reported as registered voters.
