Multiple polls taken AFTER Biden dropped out reveals the state of the race between Kamala Harris and Trump

The explosion in fundraising and increased enthusiasm among Democrats after Vice President Kamala Harris took over Joe Biden’s campaign may not be enough to give her victory in November.

Multiple polls conducted after or in the days surrounding the end of Biden’s re-election campaign on Sunday show Donald Trump ahead of Harris — and sometimes by larger margins than he beat Biden.

Polls show the former president with a 9 percent lead over the vice president, and Harris has gained at least a 2 percent lead this week as he became the presumptive Democratic nominee.

A Morning Consult poll conducted on the day Biden withdrew from the race and immediately afterward showed Trump ahead of Harris at 47 percent, up from 45 percent.

Some other pollsters began their surveys a day or two before the president made his shock announcement and ended their surveys after he was out of the race, so they had a group of respondents before and after the news broke.

Biden stepped down four days after he was pulled from the campaign trail during a campaign rally in Nevada after testing positive for COVID-19. White House physician Kevin O’Connor has provided daily updates on the president’s condition, but he has not been seen in person since his diagnosis on Wednesday.

Some Republicans are demanding “proof of life” from the president.

Biden is expected to return to Washington, D.C., from Delaware on Tuesday afternoon, his first appearance in six days.

Moments after sending the one-page letter to X on Sunday, Biden sent a follow-up tweet supporting his vice president to take over his campaign.

On Monday, Harris won the support of enough delegates to clinch the nomination at the Democratic National Convention next month.

Quinnipiac University released a poll conducted the day after Biden left office, and conducted Friday through Sunday, showing Trump leading Harris by 2 percent in a head-to-head matchup.

But when registered voters were asked to consider other candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein, Trump led runner-up Harris by 4 points with 41 percent.

Trump (pictured at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Saturday) has a lead of at least 2 points and up to 9 percent over Harris

The largest gap between the vice president and the former president was 9 points, according to a Forbes/HarrisX poll. That poll, like the Quinnipiac poll, was conducted two days before and on the day of Biden’s inauguration on Sunday, July 21.

Trump won 50 percent of the vote in that survey, compared to 41 percent for Harris.

In the seven hours after Biden withdrew from the presidential race, Democratic Party fundraising surged to a record $46.4 million.

But the influx of donations is not necessarily leading to enthusiasm for Harris’ candidacy, polls show.