A MassINC Polling Group poll published on Monday showed that nearly 6 in 10 voters said they would pick Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, if the election were held at the time the survey was taken (Sept. 12-Sept.18).
The Republican nominee, Donald Trump, earned 31 percent support, and 3 percent said they would select Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who in August suspended his independent campaign and endorsed Trump.

When pollsters, who interviewed 800 likely voters in a survey with a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points, limited the options to just Harris or Trump, Harris earned 63 percent support to Trump’s 35 percent.

Another Democrat, US Sen. Elizabeth Warren, also saw a sizable margin of support in the new poll. About 56 percent of voters said they would award Warren another term if the election were held today, compared to 35 percent who would vote for Republican John Deaton.

Top issues voters cited in the presidential election were jobs, wages and the economy (picked by 55 percent of respondents), abortion and reproductive rights (51 percent), the future of democracy in America (50 percent), and immigration policy (45 percent).

Two-thirds of likely Massachusetts voters said they think the US Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the federal right to an abortion enshrined in Roe v. Wade was the wrong decision, and 62 percent also disagreed with the High Court decision that presidents have immunity from prosecution for official acts in office.

Three in four respondents said they would strongly or somewhat support a proposal to remove lifetime appointments for Supreme Court justices and instead grant each judge on the high court a single 18-year term.

As to local issues, a plurality of voters said they are displeased with Beacon Hill’s lack of transparency, an issue long a target of criticism from good government activists and interest groups across the political spectrum.

When voters were asked for their views on the state’s lawsuit against the town of Milton for its refusal to follow the MBTA’s housing program known as the Communities Act that will be before the Supreme Judicial Court next month, 50 percent of likely voters called the law enacted in 2021 “good policy.”

–REPORTER STAFF