Vice President Harris, for all her momentum since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, is behind where President Biden and Hillary Clinton stood at this point in their own battles against former President Trump during the 2020 and 2016 presidential races.

Harris is outpacing Trump in national polls kept by the FiveThirtyEight political website with 47 percent support to 44 percent with 62 days to go before the election.

But Biden had a bigger lead by that measurement in 2020. He was ahead of then-President Trump by 7 points, 50 percent to 43 percent, at this point in the 2020 race, according to FiveThirtyEight.

Clinton, running in 2016 at the end of former President Obama’s second term in office, was ahead of Trump with 42 percent support to 38 percent, according to the same data, at this stage of that race.

The RealClearPolitics polling average shows a similar trend to the one from FiveThirtyEight.

Its polling average has Harris ahead of Trump nationally by 2 points.

But at this point in 2020, Biden was ahead of Trump by 7 points — 49 percent support to 42 percent. In 2016, the RealClearPolitics national average of polls also showed Clinton ahead of Trump with 46 percent support to his 42 percent.

Harris is also trailing among some key demographics in comparison to where Biden stood when he defeated Trump in 2020.

While Harris has shown polling gains among Black voters since........

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