The majority of crypto owners in the US support Donald Trump over Kamala Harris, despite the former president trailing 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 has a double-digit lead over Harris among them.
“Voters who say they own cryptocurrency or related assets favor former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 U.S. presidential election by 12 points, a degree not explained by other factors.”
However, the poll also shows that Harris is favored by those who do not own crypto.
“According to the latest US FDU Poll national voter survey results, Trump leads by 12 points among likely voters who own crypto (50% to 38%), while Harris leads by 12 points among those who say they don’t . I don’t own any crypto (53% to 41%).”
The poll shares a table showing Harris with a seven-point lead over Trump.
The poll surveyed 801 registered voters across the country between August 17 and 20. It showed that 15% of respondents said they either owned crypto or had owned crypto at some point in the past.
It further notes that Republicans are slightly more likely to own digital assets than Democrats, although it found that “self-identified liberals, moderates, conservatives, progressives and MAGA voters are all about equally likely to say they own cryptocurrencies.”
Earlier this month, Trump announced he would launch his own decentralized finance (DeFi) platform called The DeFiant Ones, as a way to compete with banks.
In July, Trump was a keynote speaker at the 2024 Bitcoin (BTC) Conference in Nashville and later chose JD Vance, an Ohio senator known to be pro-crypto, as his running mate.
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