The majority of crypto owners in the US support Donald Trump over Kamala Harris despite the former president being behind in a new national poll.
According to a recent poll conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU), US crypto owners are embracing Trump as their candidate for the upcoming presidential election as he holds a double-digit lead against Harris amongst them.
“Voters who say that they own cryptocurrency or related assets favor former President Donald Trump over Vice-President Kamala Harris in the 2024 US Presidential election by 12 points, a degree not explained by other factors.”
However, the poll also finds that Harris is preferred by those who don’t own crypto.
“According to the latest results from the FDU Poll’s national survey of voters in the US, Trump leads by 12 points among likely voters who own crypto (50% to 38%), while Harris leads by 12 among those who say that they don’t own crypto (53% to 41%).”
The poll shares a table showing that Harris has a seven-point lead over Trump.
The poll surveyed 801 registered voters across the nation between August 17th and August 20th. It found that 15% of respondents said they owned crypto or owned crypto at one point.
It further notes Republicans are slightly more likely to own digital assets compared to Democrats though it found that “self-identified liberals, moderates, conservatives, progressives and MAGA voters are all about equally likely to say that they own cryptocurrencies.”
Earlier this month, Trump announced that he would be launching his own decentralized finance (DeFi) platform called The DeFiant Ones as a means of competing with banks.
In July, Trump was a keynote speaker at the 2024 Bitcoin (BTC) Conference in Nashville and later went on to choose JD Vance, a senator from Ohio known for being pro-crypto, as his running mate.
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