Trump vs. Harris · October 18, 2024
Trump Extends Lead
ActiVote’s October 18, 2024 presidential poll finds that former President Trump leads Vice President Harris by 2.2%. The poll was in the field between October 9 and October 17 (median field date of October 13). The poll was among 1000 likely presidential election voters and has an average expected error of 3.1%.
Trump leads among rural voters, while Harris leads among suburban and urban voters. Harris leads among younger voters (18-49) while Trump leads among older voters (50+). Harris leads among women, while Trump leads among men. Both get over 80% of those affiliated (30 states) or estimated to be affiliated (20 states) with their party, while Trump has a narrow lead among independents. Trump leads among White voters, while Harris gets 71% of the Black vote and a majority (56%) of Latino voters. There are only small differences between income and education categories with every vote share between 47% and 53%.
Political Spectrum
The crosstabs below show the support for Harris and Trump among left, moderate left, center, moderate right, and right voters. These groups are defined by splitting the national electorate in 5 equal sized groups of 20% each
Both Harris (96%) and Trump (95%) do an excellent job locking in their base. Trump has a significant lead among centrists.
Daily Tracking Poll
ActiVote runs (internally) a daily poll consisting of the last 1000 user responses to determine the state of the race. As soon as such a daily poll no longer overlaps in field period with our previous published poll, we publish that poll with all relevant details. The race trend graph shows the daily movement in the top-line result of our tracking poll, starting July 27th. It is only provided as an illustration of possible momentum in the race and overall movement over time based on ActiVote polling.
The trend suggests that Harris’ poll numbers improved steadily for about 3-4 weeks after Biden dropped out, followed by a period of 2 weeks where it hovered around a 5-point lead, which came down to a 2-3% lead around Labor day, and stayed there for a while, before starting a steady climb post the September 10 debate. Since then her overall numbers have slowly deteriorated to now a 2% lead for the former president.
Crosstabs
Weighted results by demographic group · October 18, 2024
The full crosstab table
 | 1000 LV | Unweighted | Weighted | Donald Trump | Kamala Harris |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National | ±3.1% MoE | 100% | 100% | 51.1% | 48.9% |
| Political Spectrum | Left | 23% | 20% | 2% | 98% |
| Moderate Left | 29% | 20% | 6% | 94% | |
| Center | 18% | 20% | 58% | 42% | |
| Moderate Right | 14% | 20% | 95% | 5% | |
| Right | 16% | 20% | 95% | 5% | |
| Region | rural | 34% | 32% | 66% | 34% |
| suburban | 40% | 37% | 49% | 51% | |
| urban | 26% | 32% | 39% | 61% | |
| Age | 18-29 | 20% | 14% | 46% | 54% |
| 30-49 | 38% | 30% | 48% | 52% | |
| 50-64 | 25% | 26% | 55% | 45% | |
| 65+ | 17% | 31% | 53% | 47% | |
| Gender | F | 36% | 54% | 46% | 54% |
| M | 64% | 46% | 57% | 43% | |
| Party | D | 43% | 40% | 19% | 81% |
| R | 31% | 35% | 86% | 14% | |
| I | 24% | 23% | 52% | 48% | |
| Ethnicity | White | 80% | 70% | 58% | 42% |
| Black | 9% | 11% | 29% | 71% | |
| Latino | 8% | 13% | 44% | 56% | |
| Income | Low | 21% | 19% | 49% | 51% |
| Middle | 39% | 41% | 53% | 47% | |
| High | 41% | 40% | 50% | 50% | |
| Education | HS | 25% | 31% | 47% | 53% |
| Some C | 12% | 23% | 52% | 48% | |
| BSC+ | 63% | 46% | 53% | 47% |