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Cailianshe News, August 12 (Editor: Bian Chun)After US Vice President Kamala Harris "took over" Biden and competed with former President Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential election, Harris's support rate has risen significantly. This has reshaped the campaign landscape of the US election.

According to a poll conducted jointly by the Financial Times and the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, the number of voters who trust Harris to handle the economy has caught up with the number of voters who trust Trump.

The survey found that 42% of voters trust Harris on economic issues, while 41% trust Trump. In other words, Harris leads Trump by 1%.

The poll, released Sunday, surveyed 1,001 registered voters between August 1 and August 5.

Although that is a very slim lead, even within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, it marks a shift in the tide.

In a survey conducted last month by the Financial Times and the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, only 35% of voters said they approved of Biden's handling of the economy, lagging behind Trump's 41%.

In addition, some other polls have previously shown that Trump is clearly ahead of Harris, at least on economic issues. For example, according to the recent CNBC National Economic Survey, voters believe that their economic situation will be better under Trump than under Harris. The ratio of voters supporting the two on the economy is 2:1.

Harris said on Saturday that a formal economic policy platform will be released in the coming days.

After several years of high inflation, the economy is one of the most important issues for American voters. For voters, the extent to which Harris' economic policies will differ from the current administration is what they care about most.

Among respondents to the Financial Times/University of Michigan Ross School of Business survey, 60% said Harris should either completely break away from Biden’s economic policies or “make significant changes” to Biden’s agenda.

It is worth noting that Trump often uses voters' pessimism about the US economy to "pull votes." For example, when the market plummeted last week, Trump blamed it all on Harris and the Biden administration, calling it the "Kamala crash."

Other poll results

The poll came as another poll showed Harris leading Trump by four percentage points in three battleground states, a reversal of a trend that had shown Trump either tied with or slightly ahead of Democratic President Joe Biden in polls in those states for nearly a year.

According to the latest poll by The New York Times and Siena College, Harris's support rate in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan is 50%, higher than Trump's 46%.

However, the poll also showed that Trump continued to maintain his advantage in who can better manage the economy, leading Harris 52% to 46% in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and 51% to 45% in Michigan.

(Bian Chun from Cailianshe)