Harris, Schiff enjoy big leads in California, but Biden’s victory was bigger in 2020, poll finds
LA TimesRepublican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, speaking at a campaign event Sept. 25, 2024, in Mint Hill, N.C., and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, right, speaking a campaign event Oct. 19, 2024, in Atlanta. Anna Kelly, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, which is coordinating closely with the Trump campaign, said in a statement to The Times that Trump “will be a president for all Americans, including those in traditionally blue states that Kamala Harris and the Democrats have left behind.” The latest poll, which was conducted Oct. 22 to 29 in English and Spanish, surveyed 4,341 Californians considered likely to vote or who have already voted. Four years ago, California exit polling found about three in four of the state’s Latino and Asian American voters backed Biden. Also noteworthy, DiCamillo said, is that Harris’ losses among certain voting segments in California are being offset by gains among white voters, who are supporting Harris at higher levels than they did Biden. Overall, DiCamillo said, the latest polling supports the assumption that Harris will win California — as has every Democratic candidate for president since President George H. W. Bush beat Michael Dukakis in 1988 — and take the state’s whopping 54 electoral votes, the largest electoral prize of any state.