Survey: Trump Leading Harris After Biden Calls It Quits

Former President Donald Trump received encouraging news from a new poll following Joe Biden's decision to drop his re-election bid and endorse his vice president, Kamala Harris.

The CNN survey revealed that 49 percent of respondents supported Trump, while 46 percent backed Harris. The poll, conducted by SSRS, sampled registered voters who had previously participated in CNN surveys in April and June, where Trump had been leading Biden by 6 points.

Newsmax reported the following findings from the poll:

• 64% believe Republicans have a better chance of winning the presidency in 2024 if Trump is the party’s nominee.
• 50% of Harris supporters said their vote is more in support of her than against Trump, compared to 37% of Biden’s supporters who said their vote was mainly to express support for the president.
• 74% of Trump supporters said their vote is to express support for him rather than opposition to Harris.
• Among Harris supporters younger than 45, 43% said their vote is more in support of her than against Trump, up from 28% of Biden voters in that age group who felt the same way about the president in June.
• Democrats and Democrat-leaning voters are divided over whether the next nominee should continue Biden’s policies (53%) or take the country in a new direction (47%).
• 88% of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters believe the party has a better chance of winning with Trump at the top of the ticket.

This polling comes a few weeks after Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pa., leading to new criticism of the Secret Service.

Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall criticized the agency over “systemic failures” that he believes contributed to the assassination attempt. He is now advocating for a “crisis intervention team” to address and correct issues within the agency.

“We don’t have to wait 44 months to realize that the Secret Service has a huge cultural problem — There needs to be an intervention team to come in there, take it over and make sure President Trump is safe and secure,” Marshall told Newsmax this week.

In a separate interview with the Fox Business Network, Marshall also criticized the FBI and mentioned that a growing number of Americans do not trust either agency, especially after a Senate hearing this week where high-ranking officials from both agencies were questioned about the security failures preceding the assassination attempt.

“What I would share with you is that folks back home don’t trust the FBI. They have no faith or competence in the Secret Service right now. And this hearing did nothing to relieve those fears that the Secret Service has significant institutional problems, cultural issues within it. And that’s why they need a big change. We need somebody to come in there, a crisis intervention team,” Marshall stated.

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“And I’m just telling you, there’s nothing that this Secret Service director is gonna be able to do right now. He cannot see the forest for the trees that he’s not objective. He’s trying to protect everybody’s job. People should be at least placed on leave until we get to the bottom of it,” Marshall continued.

“He would not tell us who was responsible for denying President Trump more security, he wouldn’t tell us who makes the decisions to say no, we’re not going to use a drone. He would not say who drew this security line and left 10 buildings within the direct line of the president,” the Kansas Republican added.

“Even within days, a normal post-mortem on an event like this should reveal those basic steps to say, here’s where the basic mistakes were, these are the people that we’ve relieved of their duty, we’ve made these corrections to protect President Trump at the next rally,” he explained.

“He [Secret Service Acting Director Rowe] did deflect the blame to the local police, and my specific question for him was, did the Secret Service hold their meeting that morning with local police? Local police officers said that meeting never happened. I did not get a direct answer from the acting director. And he says on the one hand that he wants to cooperate with investigations, but he’s not taking full accountability,” he said.