Brits reveal if they would prefer Trump or Harris to win 2024 election

Britons have revealed whether they want Donald Trump or Kamala Harris to win the 2024 US presidential election.

MailOnline took to England's streets to poll the public ahead of the historic vote on the eve of the election - and found that many prefer the idea of a clean start with Harris to a second chance for former president Trump.

'Harris is obviously the better one for women's rights, women's equalities. Donald Trump is definitely a terrible president, we've seen this before,' one young woman said. 

Ciara Harkin, 23, an art student at Newcastle University from Derry, Ireland, added: 'Kamala has the right motives around women's rights.'

'I would like Kamala to win. I would like a fresh change for America,' taxi driver Youssaf Mohammad, 55, said. 

One woman told MailOnline: 'Anyone who's not Donald Trump. Even if [a] tree was running against him I would hope that they won.  

'I think she's actually got some empathy and compassion for other people. I think their [the Democrats'] policies are actually sensible.'

Benedetta, 35, said: 'For me, it's just shocking that Donald Trump can run in the first place. 

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'If he wins, it will be really a shock because it's going to be another endless amount of time wasted. It's going to be dangerous. It's gonna be really bad and nothing good is going to be done.

'At least Kamala sounds like she knows what she's doing.'

Valeska Mangel, a 28-year-old student, added: 'I feel slightly nervous. I do feel like this vote will show if sexism is going to win, and that's what makes me anxious as a woman.

'I just feel like, even here, like speaking to my GP about birth control about contraception.

'The US has an influence in this, and the research is important. I just fear that women's rights, especially abortion rights, are going to be stripped away.

'If Trump wins I will feel disbelief. It's very strange to see that there is even a possibility I feel disbelief in humanity that he's even running, that he's able to.' 

Dane McPherson, 36 who works in retail, shared: 'I don't think Trump has the best interests of the people at heart. All he's doing is thinking about himself. With how the world is going at the moment - there's crisis everywhere.

'Elon Musk wants to buy the election and it's always the poor who are gonna suffer. There's too much hate.'

Some Britons said that 'neither of them' was the good choice, with reservations about both candidates.

'They are saying it's going to be Trump, aren't they, but I would like Harris to win,' Lewis Brimmell, 34, told MailOnline. 

'I think Harris is a safer choice than Trump.'

'He's got his own agenda. What that is, I'm not quite sure of and I don't think he knows either,' retired nurse Christine Mellor added. 

'I don't think he's going to do much for the country,' another said. A third added: 'She's more modern, he's an old-fashioned man. I think it's going to have a knock-on effect with trade.'

'I actually believe it's going to have a massive impact on us,' charity worker Kathryn Rooney echoed. 

The minority of those interviewed by MailOnline favoured former president Trump. 

'He seems to be telling more of the truth and he can answer a question,' Paul Kelly, 58, said about Trump. 

'I think if Donald Trump gets in, I think it will teach [UK Prime Minister] Keir Starmer a lesson.'

Robert Grafton, 79, weighed in: 'I'd like to see Trump get elected just to see what will happen. We could do with a bit of excitement, couldn't we?'

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Student Luka Matijevic, 20, added: 'He's more his country's person. He focuses on America, he didn't bother what people elsewhere were thinking.' 

Emmanuella Ezeocha, a 24-year-old student, said: 'I do think that Donald Trump's persona and the way he acts is not ideal.

'However, if we think about his party, his team has actually been very good so far in terms of their conservative values and views for the country.

'The thing is, what I've seen with liberal leaders is that many of them will come up with a lot of these promises for the middle class and working class.

'But they wouldn't deliver on any of them. I would actually back his team more than Kamala Harris.

'I do not back what he says at all as a Christian, and he says he's a Christian, too.

'I don't think that's what Christians really stand for - they're supposed to be more loving and peaceful and not violent.'

'I think they are both idiots, to be completely honest,' Len Williamson, 76, concluded. 'I think they need somebody more moderate.'

The final PBS News/NPR/Marist poll before the election found that Harris still holds a 4-point lead over Trump nationally, which is just outside the poll's 3.5-point margin of error.

Analysts say that the most notable change in the last month of the campaign is the gender gap shrinking by half.

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In October, Harris had the support of 41 per cent of men. That has now increased to 47 per cent. 

Trump's support among male voters has dropped from 57 to 51 per cent, but he still maintains a lead over Harris in this demographic.

The Vice President maintained her lead among women voters, but did see it drop from 58 to 55 per cent from October to November.

Trump, however, saw a rise in support among women with 44 per cent now saying they will back him, a 4-point increase from last month.

The gender split in the Marist poll is nearly identical to the split between Biden and Trump in 2020, analysts noted. 

Harris has also shrunk the lead that Trump has with white voters, the poll revealed. Trump led this demographic by 12 points in 2020, but now leads by 9.

However, compared to Biden in 2020, Harris has seen a slight decline in support from Black and Latino voters.

She has the support of 83 percent of Black likely voters and 61 percent of Latino likely voters, a drop of 8 and 2 points respectively from the share that supported Biden four years ago.

Voters now appear to be turning to bets for predictions on the election outcome after polls put Trump and Harris neck-and-neck.  

Harris, 60, has the support of 51 percent of likely voters, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. Trump has support from 47 per cent.

Analysts say the top line results of the Marist poll are nearly identical to those of the 2020 election, which reported Joe Biden leading Trump 51 to 47 per cent. 

The outcome of this year's knife-edge election, which has become the closest race to the White House in decades, is too close to call and could potentially come down to a few thousand votes in seven key swing states.