Last Updated on 09/09/2024 by Arun jain
The US presidential race is tight, according to polls released two days before Kamala Harris and Donald Trump hold their first meeting. Television debate.
The latest poll confirms that despite the Republican’s historic status as a convicted felon and his role in instigating an unprecedented attempt to overturn his 2020 loss to Joe Biden, Trump retains the lock-in support of nearly half of voters.
Harris, who jumped into the race after President Biden Leave in JulyHe has quickly transformed himself from an overlooked vice president to a serious contender. However, polls showed her not making any major gains, leaving the race a toss-up.
A New York Times/Siena College poll suggested the 78-year-old Trump leads Harris 48 to 47 percent nationally, within the margin of error.
The US Presidential election Decisions are made by tallying the results of state-by-state contests rather than the overall national popular vote, which means that a few swing states usually decide the outcome.
Polls indicated that Harris, 59, was slightly ahead in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and tied in four other swing states: Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona.
A CBS News/YouGov poll put Harris ahead by one percentage point in Michigan and Wisconsin and tied in Pennsylvania.
The election is already in disarray, with 81-year-old Biden dropping out amid concerns about his age, Trump narrowly surviving. The killer’s bullet at a rally, and growing fears that Trump will refuse to concede again if he loses in November.
However, recent statistics confirm that each candidate maintains a remarkably stable base of loyalists, dividing the country almost evenly.
A game-changer could be Tuesday’s ABC News debate, which is scheduled between the two.
Trump will be under pressure to rein in his typical use of insults and intimidation as he sides with a mixed-race candidate seeking to become the first female president in US history.
Harris will need to use a wider audience to connect with voters in a way that she was unable to do as vice president and had little time to accomplish in her super-condensed campaign run.
With Trump now the oldest presidential nominee in US history, she is projecting an optimistic, forward-looking message that runs counter to Trump’s apocalyptic claims that the country faces eventual decline without him in the White House.
But Harris has also been accused of running on vague optimism and unity at the expense of crafting concrete policies.
She finally addressed the mounting pressure late Sunday when her campaign released a policy page, touching on the topics of unions and cost-of-living issues of healthcare.
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At the same time, Harris will have to solve the conundrum of how to negotiate with Trump, who habitually makes false statements on nearly every topic and likes to get under the skin of his opponents. Biden, in his only debate against Trump before abandoning his candidacy, found himself unable to square off.
Already, Trump is subjecting Harris to racist and sexist taunts, deliberately mispronouncing her name in campaign speeches and calling her “crazy” and a “Marxist.”
“It would take almost superhuman focus and discipline to deal with Donald Trump in a debate,” Harris supporter and current Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told broadcaster CNN.
The Harris campaign announced that it would “barnstorm battleground states” after the debate began in North Carolina and then Pennsylvania.
Trump held a rally in Wisconsin on Saturday where he appealed to his largely white, working-class base with a dark speech claiming he was fighting a “rogue regime” where Democrats “import murderers, child predators and serial rapists.” . planet”.
On his Truth social platform, he warned that once back in the White House he would impose “long prison sentences” on all those who were planning to “defraud” in November.
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