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Multiple polls taken AFTER Biden dropped out reveal the state of the race between Kamala Harris and Trump

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By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com

Published: 14:15 BST, 23 July 2024 | Updated: 16:51 BST, 23 July 2024

Donald Trump is still leading Kamala Harris - often by a bigger margin than he had led Joe Biden, data from multiple polls show. 

The polls show Trump led the vice president by up to 9 percent beforehand and by at least 2 percent as Harris became the Democratic Party's presumed nominee on Sunday.

A Morning Consult poll taken the day of, and immediately after, Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday shows Trump ahead of Harris by a tally of 47 percent to 45 percent.

Some other polling services started their surveys one or two days before Biden made his bombshell announcement and concluded after he was no longer in the race, providing a set of respondents both before and after the news broke.

Several polls taken amidst President Joe Biden dropping his reelection bid show Vice President Kamala Harris trailing Donald Trump in the 2024 race

Biden dropped out four days after he was pulled from the campaign trail during a swing in Nevada after he received a positive COVID-19 test. White House Physician Kevin O'Connor has released daily updates on the president's condition, but he has not yet been seen in person since the diagnosis on Wednesday.

Some Republicans are demanding 'proof of life' from the President.

Biden is scheduled to return to Washington, D.C. from Delaware on Tuesday afternoon. It would be the first time he emerges in six days.

Just moments after posting the one-page letter to X on Sunday, Biden sent a follow-up tweet that backed his vice president to take over his campaign. 

On Monday, Harris earned the support of enough delegates to get the nomination at the Democratic National Convention next month.  

Quinnipiac University released a poll the day after Biden dropped out that was taken Friday through Sunday and had Trump ahead in a head-to-head matchup with Harris by 2 percent.

But when registered voters were asked to also consider other candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein, Trump was in the lead by 4 points with 45 percent over second-place Harris with 41 percent. 

Trump (pictured at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Saturday) is ahead of Harris by at least 2 points and up to 9 percent 

The largest gap between the vice president and former president was 9 percent in a Forbes/HarrisX poll, which like the Quinnipiac poll was conducted two days before and the day of Biden's drop out on Sunday, July 21.

Trump earned 50 percent in that survey compared to Harris' 41 percent.

In the seven hours after Biden dropped out of the presidential race, Democratic fundraising surged by a record $46.4 million.

But the influx of donations does not necessarily translate to enthusiasm for Harris' candidacy, according to the polls.

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