Final NYT/Siena poll suggests Harris’s position among likely voters may have dipped; Harris raises $97m in first half of October to Trump’s $16m‘Fascist’, ‘conman’, ‘predator’, ‘cheat’: what 11 Trump staff say about himKamala Harris and Donald Trump are tied at 48%, according to a new poll by the New York Times and Siena College.Published on Friday, the poll, the poll also revealed that 31% of registered voters view Trump as very favorable while 29% view Harris as very favorable.“Ms. Harris’s position, if anything, may have declined among likely voters since the last Times/Siena College poll, taken in early October. At the time, she had a slight lead over Mr. Trump, 49 percent to 46 percent. The change is within the margin of error, but The Times’s national polling average has registered a tightening in polls over the past few weeks as well, suggesting at the very least that this contest has drawn even closer,” the outlet wrote.“I don’t think she has Jim Comey in the wings waiting to kneecap her so that’s good.”“I think she is doing what she needs to do, and…a number of the voters who were at [the CNN] town hall have said she convinced them, that she had shown the kind of empathy and concern about their problems, that she had come forward with her ideas, her suggested policies. So, I think she’s doing what she needs to do.” Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/25/kamala-harris-donald-trump-us-election-politics-barack-obama
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Publish date : 2024-10-25 14:02:08
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US election live updates: Harris heads to Texas as poll shows her tied with Trump at 48%
