Vice President Kamala Harris has her largest-ever lead over former President Donald Trump with the help of added support from three key demographic groups, according to the results of a new poll.
A poll released by The Economist/YouGov on Wednesday finds the Democratic presidential nominee leading the Republican former president by 4 percentage points, with 49 percent of registered voters preferring Harris and 45 percent backing Trump.
The result was the poll’s biggest national lead for Harris since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her on July 21. It was also the largest lead for any presidential candidate since Biden held a 5-point advantage over Trump one year ago.
The apparent polling boost, coming on the heels of what most viewed as a winning debate performance for Harris, appears to have been fueled in part by the Democrat achieving her largest-ever leads among millennial voters, white voters and men.
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The newest edition of the poll, conducted earlier this week, finds that 47 percent of male registered voters now support the vice president—a significant improvement from the 39 percent who backed her when she first entered the race.
Harris has also gained 6 points of support from all white voters since Biden dropped out of the race, climbing from 36 percent in July to 42 percent in the newest poll.
A larger boost for the Democrat came from millennials, with a 57 percent majority of voters age 30 to 44—a group mostly consisting of millennials—saying in the new poll that they prefer Harris, while only 45 percent backed her in July.
Additionally, support for Harris has substantially improved among Black and Hispanic voters since July, with the vice president garnering support from 78 percent of Black registered voters and 60 percent of Hispanic registered voters in the latest poll.
Only 44 percent of Hispanic voters and 63 percent of Black voters supported Harris in July. Hispanic support for Harris was at an all-time high in the new poll, while the vice president saw her highest figure of support among Black voters, 81 percent, in late August.
Trump held advantages over Harris among voters age 45 and older in the new poll. However, the only demographic groups that showed majorities supporting the former president were white voters at 52 percent and voters 65 and older at 55 percent.
The poll also showed that Harris received an overall 4 percent post-debate bump in support—the vice president and former president were tied at 45 percent just before meeting in Philadelphia on September 10.
Newsweek reached out for comment to the Trump and Harris campaigns via email on Wednesday.
The new poll was conducted among 1,445 registered U.S. voters from September 15 to September 17, with a margin of error of 3.2 percent. Previous editions of the weekly poll each had margins of error of 3.1 percent to 3.3 percent among registered voters.
An average of recent national polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight shows Harris leading Trump by 3.3 percentage points as of Wednesday evening, while an average from RealClearPolitics shows the vice president leading by 2 points.
On the day of the debate, Harris was leading Trump by 2.5 points in the FiveThirtyEight average and 1.1 points in the RealClearPolitics average.
