Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will have to race to the finish line as the presidential candidates face off just two months before Election Day.
With just 63 days left in the 2024 election season, the vice president sees a growing lead with one group of voters.
According to the latest ABC/Ipsos poll, Harris now leads Trump by 13 points among women, with 54 percent to Trump’s 41 percent.
While neither candidate saw a real uptick at their nominating conventions this summer, the gender surge is helping Harris in the tough race.
This also comes at a time when the issue of reproductive rights has been front and center in the election campaign.
Kamala Harris has seen a surge in support among women since the convention
Overall, the poll found Harris leading Trump 50 percent to 46 percent among Americans and 52 percent to 46 percent among likely voters.
As for the gender gap, Harris has a thirteen-point lead among women, but Trump only has a five-point lead among men, which is not statistically significant.
According to polls, the shift largely came after the convention. Before accepting the nomination in Chicago, Harris held a six-point lead among women. The shift puts her more in line with previous gender lineups.
Much of the post-convention gender realignment has occurred among white people.
Trump went from a 13-point lead among white women to just two points, which is a statistical tie with Harris. At the same time, the gap among white men in favor of Trump went from 13 points to 21 points.
Two women hold signs supporting Harris-Walz’s presidential bid during the vice president’s campaign stop in Detroit on Aug. 7, 2024.
A group of women supporting Donald Trump at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on August 30.
On the issues, Americans are confident Harris will do a better job overall.
Trump, however, has the edge overall on the economy, inflation, immigration and the war in Gaza. The candidates are tied on crime.
Where Harris has a wide lead is when it comes to confidence in her handling of abortion, where she has a sixteen-point advantage, 47 percent to 31 percent.
He also has the edge when Americans are asked who they trust most to handle Supreme Court appointments.
The issue of abortion and reproductive rights has been at the center of the election campaign since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in June 2022.
It was one of the factors that helped Democrats retain the Senate in the midterm elections and avoid further losses in the House of Representatives.
Harris has made the issue a top priority during the 2024 campaign season, while Trump has wavered over how to address it and the implications of the Roe ruling.
Trump has touted the nomination of the Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe, but for months he struggled to articulate a clear position on whether he would support a federal abortion ban.
Earlier this year, the former president declared that abortion access should be left to states, after previously signaling he was open to federal limits.
Last week, the former president sparked confusion over whether he would vote in favor of a Florida ballot measure that would repeal the state’s ban on abortion at six weeks gestation, before clarifying that he would vote against it in his home state.
Women wearing “#4 Women” jackets at the Democratic National Convention. It’s a reference to Florida’s Amendment Four, the Abortion Rights Initiative, which is up for a vote in the state in November.
But in an apparent separate appeal to women voters last week, Trump also announced a policy under which his administration would guarantee that the full cost of IVF would be covered by the government or insurance if he is elected to a second term, but he did not go into details about how it would be implemented or paid for.
IVF and access to fertility treatments have been another key issue since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that frozen embryos were children. This sparked chaos and raised questions about access to IVF in the state before the state legislature took steps to protect it.
Meanwhile, Harris’s campaign on Tuesday launched a reproductive freedom bus tour that will begin just down the street from Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida. The tour is scheduled to make more than 50 stops as Democrats campaign hard for access to reproductive care.
Other issues Harris generally led on included health care, protecting democracy, gun violence and race relations.