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By Ewan Palmer
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Vice President Kamala Harris has increased her average polling lead over former President Donald Trump across multiple aggregation sites.
On Tuesday, Newsweek reported on how Harris had overtaken her Republican rival in the two weeks since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.
Harris, who continues to see waves of enthusiasm and support for her White House bid, is increasing her lead over Trump with less than three months to go in the neck-and-neck race.
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Earlier this week, polling site FiveThirtyEight showed Harris with a 1.7 percentage point lead over Trump. As of Friday, the lead increased to 2.0 percentage points, 45.4 to 43.4.
Nate Silver, who founded FiveThirtyEight and currently uses a similar methodology in his predictions, is showing Harris with a 2.1 percent average lead over Trump (46.4 percent to 44.3 percent), up from 1.9 percent.
Silver is also estimating that Harris has a better chance of winning the Electoral College vote (53.2 percent) than Trump (46.2 percent). Silver's model had previously given Trump a 73 percent chance to win when running against Biden.
Harris has also improved her average lead over Trump on RealClearPolling from 0.2 percent to 0.5 percent over the space of just a few days (47.6 percent to 47.1).
Trump had been ahead in RealClearPolitics' average polling tracker all year before being overtaken by Harris on Monday.
Elsewhere, The Economist's polling average previously showed Harris leading Trump by 47 percent to 46 percent. Harris has doubled her lead as of Friday (47.5 percent to 45.5 percent).
The Economist suggested that the vice president has "one clear advantage over" Biden that may be being reflected in her poll numbers: "At 59 she is over two decades younger than he is, and 18 years younger than Mr. Trump."
Forecasters Race to the White House have shown that the vice president has increased her average lead over Trump in recent days, from 47.6 percent to 46.3 percent (1.3 points) to 48.3 percent to 46.6 percent (1.7 points).
Trump is still narrowly ahead of Harris in the Decision Desk HQ/The Hill national average, 47.4 percent to 47.2 percent.
The average is based off 109 polls, including those taken before Biden ended his reelection campaign.
Harris' and Trump's campaign teams have been contacted for comment via email.
Harris and Trump have agreed to take part in an ABC News-hosted debate on September 10. The former president agreed to the same debate when ABC News first issued an invitation in May. At the time, the debate was with Biden.
In June, ABC News reported that the debate would be moderated by World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis. More information such as the rules and location will be revealed closer to September 10.
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