USA-2024: Harris Leads Four Points over Trump

Kamala Harris, the US vice president and Democratic candidate in the November 5 election, has a four-point lead over former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump. According to a new national public opinion poll released by Florida Atlantic University in collaboration with the public opinion center Mainstreet Research USA, following last week’s Democratic Party national convention in Chicago, Kamala Harris has 47% of the popular support vote, compared to 43% for Trump.

According to USA Today, 238 Republican officials who worked for former President George Bush, as well as former candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain, signed a letter declaring their support for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. The signatories of the letter said they were “convinced” that Trump’s second term would “harm ordinary people and weaken our sacred institutions.”

Meanwhile, Trump has decided to give two important roles to former independent candidate for US President Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who are set to lead the so-called “transition team” that, if Trump wins in November, will help him “choose the policies and composition of a possible new administration.” A member of Trump’s campaign staff told the New York Times that the two will be “honorary co-chairs of the team, along with other honorary chairs: vice presidential candidate Senator J.D. Vance, and Trump’s two sons, Donald Jr. and Eric.”

Kennedy, who last Friday (August 23) dotted his campaign and endorsed Trump, also mentioned the new stance in an interview given to Tucker Carlson and posted on X social network (formerly Twitter). “I was asked to be part of the transition team to help select the people who would go into government,” Kennedy said. Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who left the party in 2020, announced her unequivocal support for Trump on Tuesday, August 27.