July 23 (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris holds a marginal two percentage point lead over Republican Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
Harris leads Trump 44% to 42% in US presidential race: poll
The poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday, followed the Republican Party convention, where Trump formally accepted his party's nomination on Thursday, and Biden's announcement on Sunday that he was dropping out of the race and endorsing Harris.
Harris, whose campaign is securing the Democratic nomination, led Trump by 44 percent to 42 percent in the national poll, a difference within a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Harris and Trump were tied at 44% in a July 15-16 poll, and Trump led by one percentage point in a July 1-2 poll. Both parties had the same margin of error.
