Democratic White House candidate Kamala Harris is leading her Republican rival Donald Trump by three points, according to a New York Times poll released on Tuesday, October 8th, four weeks before the US election.
The 59-year-old Democratic vice president has 49 percent of voting intentions nationwide, compared to Trump’s 46 percent.
The candidate has won the support of 9 percent of Republicans, according to the poll conducted with Siena College.
Harris is trying to win over a part of this electorate based on the hypothesis that some moderate Republicans do not want another presidency of the 78-year-old billionaire.
Last week, the Democrat held a rally with former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, repudiated by Trump.
On Tuesday, she reiterated her intention to name a Republican to her cabinet if she is elected in the presidential elections on November 5.
The latest New York Times poll, published in mid-September, found the two candidates tied at 47 percent nationally.
But U.S. presidential elections are held by indirect universal suffrage, so the outcome depends on a handful of closely contested states where the candidates are tied.
The New York Times poll questioned 3,385 voters nationwide between September 29 and October 6. The margin of error is about 2.4 points.
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