From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.

A major new poll from the Times finds that Vice President Kamala Harris has transformed the 2024 presidential race and

is now leading President Trump in three of the most crucial battleground states. Today, my colleague Nate Cohn explains why Harris is

benefiting so much from being a new face in an election that so many Americans had dreaded.

It's Tuesday, August 13th.

Nate, the Times has just completed our first poll

that seeks to understand the state of this presidential race since Biden dropped out and

Kamala Harris took his place as the Democratic nominee. Everyone understands that that has changed this race,

but this poll attempted to measure Everyone understands that that has changed this race.

But this poll attempted to measure by just how much it changed the race

in three of the most essential swing states.

So tell us about the results.

Well, we found that the entry of Kamil Harris into the race is fundamentally upended this contest.

We pulled Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, arguably the three most important battleground states.

These are three states that voted for Obama in 2012, Trump in 2016, and then flip back to

Biden in 2020, but that Trump had generally been leading in the polling

so far this cycle. And if Kamla Harris won all three states, she would almost

certainly win the presidential election.

And the poll found Harris leading Donald Trump in all three states

by a four-point margin, 50 to 46 percent.

A huge swing in favor of the Democrats in a very short period of time.

Basically what this poll found was that she was a game changer in those three states.

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