Tim Walz Gets DNC Boost as Kamala Harris Remains Constant: Poll

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz received a boost in his approval rating following last week’s Democratic National Convention, according to the latest polling from Morning Consult.
A survey conducted over the weekend by the polling company found that 42 percent of registered voters hold a favorable view of Walz, who formally accepted his party’s vice presidential nomination in Chicago. Before the convention, Walz had a 39 percent favorability rating, according to Morning Consult’s polling.
The four-day-long convention did not give Vice President Kamala Harris a polling boost among national voters, however. Morning Consult’s polling found that the Democrats’ presidential nominee still leads Donald Trump by 4 percentage points, which is the same lead she held according to polling a week before the convention.
In Morning Consult’s latest polling, which includes the responses of 7,818 registered voters surveyed between August 23 and 25, Harris is leading the Republican nominee 48 percent to 44 percent. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage point.
Morning Consult said in its report on the presidential election, which was released Monday, that Harris has not trailed Trump in a “daily tracking survey” since the company began tracking head-to-head matchups between the two candidates in late July, when she entered the 2024 race.
Newsweek reached out to both Harris and Trump’s campaigns via email Monday for comment.
Harris formally accepted her party’s presidential nomination last Thursday, following a week of speeches from Democratic leaders and delegates who emphasized a message of “freedom” and hope. Harris contrasted her positions and policies with Trump’s on multiple occasions throughout her nomination acceptance speech and called on voters to “fight” for democracy and “the ideals we cherish.”
Other polling has shown that the vice president received a boost among voters nationwide after last week’s convention. In a survey conducted by the Angus Reid Institute during the same week as the Democratic convention (August 19 to 23), Harris held a 5-point lead over Trump, 47 percent to 42 percent among registered voters. In a survey conducted by Angus Reid a month earlier, Harris was leading Trump by just 2 percentage points (44 percent to 42 percent).
On average, Harris had held a more than 3-point lead in national polls since last Wednesday, according to a report by website FiveThirtyEight. As of Monday, the vice president is leading by 3.4 percentage points on average (47.1 percent to 43.7 percent).
The Democratic convention also trumped the Republican National Convention in television viewership, according to ratings company Nielsen. An estimated 21.8 million viewers tuned into the Democratic convention across all four nights last week, while the RNC in July garnered just over 19 million viewers on average across all four nights.