A new Rasmussen survey released Thursday shows Vice President Kamala Harris still lagging behind former President Donald Trump, despite her efforts to moderate her previous positions on a variety of issues, including a shift away from the proposed “mandatory buyback” of semiautomatic rifles.
According to Rasmussen, a recent national telephone and online survey of likely U.S. voters revealed Trump is ahead of Harris 49-44 percent, with 3 percent saying the would vote for someone else and 2 percent saying they are undecided.
However, a different poll, by Emerson College, says Harris is ahead of Trump 50-46 percent, with five percent of voters remaining undecided. The Emerson survey also says 51 percent of votes have a favorable view of the vice president, while 49 percent share an unfavorable view of Harris.
And another new poll by Outward Intelligence shows Harris up by 6 points. According to this polling outfit, the breakdown shows “Democrats (90% – 5%) and Republicans (89% – 5%) equally support their candidates, while Independents skew to the Vice President by 8 points (45% for Harris, vs 37% for Trump).” This survey says women back Harris by 53-40 percent while men are behind Trump 46-45 percent. Minorities (Blacks, Asians and Hispanics) reportedly support Harris by 64, 26 and 15 points, respectively, while whites support Trump by 4 points, the survey says.
In the Emerson poll, Trump doesn’t fare well when it comes to favoritism, either. The survey said 54 percent have an unfavorable view of Trump against the 45 percent who have a favorable opinion.
As noted by Fox News, when Harris was campaigning for the presidency back in 2019, she advocated for a mandatory gun buyback program, which translates to “compensated confiscation” of legally-purchased semiautomatic rifles.
Rasmussen’s survey also revealed something else which is probably raising alarms in the Harris camp.
“Trump continues to lead by a substantial margin among independents,” Rasmussen reported. “In a two-way matchup between Trump and Harris, 86% of Republicans would vote for Trump, while 82% of Democrats would vote for Harris. Among voters unaffiliated with either major party, 49% favor Trump, while 40% prefer Harris. In a six-way matchup, Trump’s maintains his nine-point advantage among independents, with five percent (5%) of unaffiliated voters going for RFK Jr.”
This means Trump still holds a substantial lead among Independent voters. With the Democratic National Convention looming next week in Chicago, there is likely to be a bump for the Harris and running mate Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, but such honeymoons are often short-lived, especially when Harris continues to not give interviews.
It will be important to pay attention to any comments on “gun safety” or “gun reform” mentioned during the Democrat gathering, and whether gun control becomes part of the party platform for 2024.
Harris has also been accused of having purloined Trump’s campaign pledge from several months ago to stop taxing tips, an important issue among people employed as waitresses and bartenders, and others in service-type jobs.
The vice president’s chameleon-type policy changes have garnered severe criticism from former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. In a statement quoted by Fox News, Gabbard called Harris “an empty suit.”
“They are trying to create this new version of Kamala Harris to match what their pollsters are telling them,” Gabbard observed, “so she can say whatever she needs to say to try to win over voters, which is the most offensive thing, I think, because they think we’re so stupid as to forget what her record actually is.”
Later in her remarks, Gabbard warned, “We have to pay attention to her actions, because on every single major issue, you will see that same kind of hypocrisy that I pointed out in 2019 where she’ll say one thing, but her record tells a very, very different story.”
The Harris campaign may get away with that among younger voters, at least for the time being. As noted by Rasmussen, “Harris has a one-point lead among voters under 40, and has narrowed Trump’s advantage among those 65 and older, while Trump’s biggest lead is among voters ages 40-64.”
The pollster also says Trump “leads by a wider margin among men (50% to Harris’s 44%) than among women voters (49% to Harris’s 47%).”
The disparity between polling results from Rasmussen and Emerson College only underscores the broader division between the left and right in the U.S. Most establishment news agencies are more negative about Trump and more positive about Harris, which is reminiscent of how the press treated Trump when he was faced off against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Meanwhile, in the media’s continued effort to portray Walz as a politician who stood up to the gun lobby, the New York Times has published an article replete with a photo of the Minnesota governor posed with a semiautomatic shotgun.
Writing at the National Review, Robert F. Turner discusses Walz’s recent gun control comments, essentially underscoring what AmmoLand discussed previously about how the Democrats will try to use his background as a hunter, gun owner and former member of the National Guard as a way to promote their gun policies.
About Dave Workman
Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.
Screw the polls and this will be the third time my voting for trump!!!
Yeah, we saw how well voting on election day worked in ’22, when the “conservatives” advocated for it. In red districts, polling places out of ballots, machines froze, too few workers…
Stupid idiot “conservatives” didn’t see that one coming?
Vote early!
I specifically remember, that late summer and fall hearing, Charlie Kirk go on and on, on his radio show, “Vote in person, on election day! Then they can’t rig it with mail in ballots!” I just kept thinking to myself as I heard that thinking, telegraphing your move to the enemy is STUPID! They’ll just figure out a way to screw up election day voting! And the enemy did! To Kirk’s credit, after the dust settled, I did hear him admit is was a mistake on his part. But you’d think a guy like him, with dozens, hundreds maybe of… Read more »
Act like Trump’s 20 points down. Then, if the CIA doesn’t kill him, he might just get in the White House.
Just because Frankists have managed to pervert a large section of the world’s religions doesn’t mean “Christians” bad. Some sure. Some genuinely misguided. Same goes for other religions. Don’t make a mockery out of Christians.
That’s the problem with texting/little posts like this, humor rarely comes through, as it would if people were actually talking.
When it comes to the CIA… I don’t trust the guys in the offices, nor the ones out in the field.
Hillary was like +20 in Nov 2016. LOL.
True, well, then we should act like Trump’s down by 50 points!
All you need to know about Tsingtao Tim is the video by Tanya Kerssen of police and national guard troops marching through a residential neighborhood in Minnesota to enforce his 8 PM inside the house with the doors closed curfew. Kerssen was filming on her front porch when a guard member or police officer shouted “light-em up” and they were peppered with paint balls (this time.) Don’t think the government won’t use the military to enforce it’s will domestically and don’t think for a second that they will hesitate to “light you up” if you don’t comply. You can hope… Read more »
full auto is the only defense ,and the larger the caliber (50 bmg is good) the better
Could I interest you in the purchase of a GAU-8? Just kidding, of course.
that would be fun ,but firing thousands of dollars a minute hummmmm and for the thought bet there are a few on the black market from Afghanistan
If you’ll allow me to digress from the mainstream of Mr. Workman’s article but congruent with your comment, don’t you think U.S. citizens should be allowed to import and keep anything that was paid for with our tax dollars but lost or abandoned? One (but not you, I’m sure) might make an exception for a broken arrow.
Have recently heard, but not confirmed, that soldiers being discharged are being charged for equipment not returned. Talking about equipment they were ordered to leave behind in Afghanistan!
The US Army has been doing that for years. It is called a statement of charges. I had to pay for a 15 cent fork back in 1975.
That makes me feel real bad for the MRAP drivers @$0.5M – $1M.
No, no. A soldier is only required to pay for personal items issued to him(called TA250 gear), that he signed for. and are not expendable items, and that he did not return (mess kit, web gear, field desk, etc)
No. Not because I wouldn’t want it – but because I would figure I was being set up by a fed. After the Ruby Ridge debacle – can you imagine how they’d react to someone who accepted their offer?
For the first time I don’t see an M2 in the catalogue. Check back in 3 months or pick up an affordable .30 cal. now. If I had a class III FFL there’s a steal of a deal on an MG34.
https://www.rockislandauction.com/catalog/4092?keywords=nfa
Is this the same NG that he delayed sending into Minneapolis, saying they were a bunch of 19 year old cooks? Yeah, he sure is proud of his Guard time, at least when it comes to his own record.
I’ll pass on the temptation to paraphrase Nathan Hale but you’ve earned more than one up vote for making the connections. A gold star for you (in the classroom sense of the phrase.)
I halfway suspect he ordered them to do things like this – in order to justify his claim that the guard was not appropriate for law enforcement.
While I don’t disagree that NG shouldn’t be sicked on civilians in law enforcement role without supervision or direction — they can be incredibly helpful working a support role, site security or simply as muscle when under direct supervision of LEO.
Note I am aware of NG role in discarding constitution in New Orleans post Katrina. Guess cops and politicians need adult supervision as well.
Like I’ve said elsewhere, we hope members of armed forces whether full time, reserves or guard, would obey their oath to the constitution. But I wouldn’t bet an old C-rat can of Ham & Mother eff-ers on it let alone my life. (That’s Ham & Lima Beans for you youngsters.)
I dont think most of current crop know what an oath is,let alone have the personal worth to respect it
commie-la is pantsuit 2.0, who also got trounced by trump back in 2016. if the lame stream media did not provide the propaganda they are she would be way back in the polls. and remember polls are as accurate as the questions in them (they are not). i don’t believe that there are enough stupid people in America that would support this chameleon in a pantsuit. she panders to each and every constituency group you can think of, and she does it poorly. she has had to moderate her position because she “was” as far left as the squad, otherwise… Read more »
The duplicitous lying is certainly off-putting, But the word salad and cackles are more grating. Look, we know she is going to lie her copious rear end off. We expect that. So our job is to enlighten those who may be taken in by those lies. If we can do that (and overcome the 20-point cheat factor) Trump just may regain the presidency.
The polls are no different than the news agencies that report them. They both lie to produce the outcome of obtaining more low information voters.
Don’t believe the polls. They make no difference, it’s what you learn as you investigate that does and none of your investigations should include the news unless of course it is Americas Real Voice or Newsmax and maybe a little of that leftist news channel Faux that calls presidencies before all the votes are counted.
The polls must be kept close to help manipulate the cheat
You are so right. Isn’t it amazing how the polls tend to favor the candidate that is of the same political leaning as their news station?
One thing I feel that is never added to the polls is this. Republican polls always show weaker than the really are because there are a lot of us that won’t answer them, like me.
Trump/Vance 2024
There is a picture of bidumb that is priceless . In The Federalist Wire he looks like a kid who has just had his hand slapped for getting caught with its hand in a cookie jar . Head down all puckered up ready to cry !!! Title is
Biden humiliated during campaign rally after Kamala Harris and Leftist allies abandon him .
After harris turned the mike over to him the crowd started walking out on him . Picture worth a thousand words !!!
Almost makes you feel sorry for him . ALMOST BUT NOT QUITE
I can’t even imagine 1/2 the country could be that stupid, however not much surprises me anymore…
I can believe it, look what they get for an education. I wonder what instructions they give to children about using the tampons in the boys restrooms?
Don’t trust the poles go vote for Trump and send that evil bitch packing back to California where she can run for Governor of the State of insanity.
Trump / Vance
2024
Polls are mildly interesting but what counts is the electoral map. At the moment it looks like Trump needs to win Pennsylvania to lock it up. Harris needs PA and a state like Michigan. The Keystone State might really be the keystone to the election this year.
I wasn’t gonna vote for the Orange Idiot this time around as I believe we should be backing Ukraine ’til victory and because I wanted no part in his “Revenge Tour”. Now, however, since Shaky Joe has dropped out and his radical-leftist idiot sidekick is running, I’m gonna HAVE to vote for Trump. He would’ve beat Biden, handily, but against the Liberal box-ticker he’s gonna need every single vote.
Most polls are not accurate. Look to Trafalgar Group. Polling use models, most models are bad and that’s why 538 had to suspend their BS polling. Trump still leads in most places, and in some places it’s juts a toss-up. Trump will win in November because Kamala went full commie publicly.
The fact the Harris is the democratic pick for president proves that the democrats have no respect for the title of president of the United States. They only want to stay in power while most republicans just want to keep there positions in Washington for the money they siphon off the taxpayers and lobbyist
we need to take back the pay ,there is no way anyone in business would pay their employees more than themselves
Dave I said it before and I will say this again Harris is incapable of being truthful. She is the vice president for all the wrong reasons her own party shunned her during the debates the media in 2020 all but destroyed her ability to run for any office. Biden had Warren or Harris as his VP picks slow Joe was railroaded by Pelosi who to this day is a very dangerous women in Washington. He considered Harris a women and black she is Indian so even half of that is a lie. I hope voters open their eyes in… Read more »
When 13% of our population can swing elections, that’s a problem. The illegals probably outnumber the blacks by now and they will be voting.. just watch. There was a huge data ‘breach’ that exposed every SS number in America last week. My guess is they’ll be using those to vote.
For years, I have been going to the web site of pollsters where you can find the breakdown of the people polled by age, race, and party. Most polls use more democrats than republicans. Also New York based polls get their samples locally.
In most cases polls are weighted toward democrats,
Before election day, you cannot believe the polls.
After election day, you can not believe the results.
The fix is in.
they scream and yell no, but hugo chavez bought a large chunk of Dominion Voting Systems through the state owned oil company ,weather or not thy still control the stock these are the machines used in venezuela and until this last election, the government always won ,this time they stopped the count so they were loosing even cheating so their is a point where even cheating they cant win, must have been what happened with trump first time
CLAIM: The family of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez owns 28% of the election technology company Dominion Voting Systems. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Dominion has been majority owned since 2018 by Staple Street Capital, a New York private equity firm. The company is privately held and does not disclose its financials, but Dominion CEO John Poulos said in an April letter to the House Committee on Administration that no investor besides himself or Staple Street Capital owns more than a 5% stake. As well, Dominion does not have any ties to Venezuela, according to Eddie Perez, a voting technology expert at… Read more »
the stake owned may have been sold at that time, florida almost did not go with their machines remember chavez died in 2013 , and unless they have changed machines they still use them I lived there till government got totally out of control, the state run oil company was found to be an arm of the government by us and world court and made to pay damages to many different companies and individuals, they are owners of citgo they may have sold their stake before the us sanctions went into effect in 2019 ( they tried to sell citgo)… Read more »
Near as I can find on the net is that Smartmatic company was the owners of the voting machines used for the 2024 election. Couldn’t find anything linked to Dominion being used in Venezuela.
Dude, I’ve proven your wrong multiple times and now all you can do is your current stalking routine.
There’s absolutely no way I could even start to prove you wrong. That boy needs to needs to have his attention gotten by way of that stubborn mule and the 2×4 and then taught how to tell the truth.
Can liberals win elections just by celebrating diversity?
Small minds are easily distracted by elections, which are rigged/stolen. Until jews are expelled from the west, nothing will change.