Harris losing ground to Trump in US presidential race, polls suggest
With less than a month until the US presidential election, Kamala Harris may be losing ground to Donald Trump.
Three polls released on Sunday show that Harris’ lead over Trump has narrowed or completely lost as the race for the White House approaches its climax.
The Democratic and Republican nominees are tied on the most recent NBC News poll, which is a change from Harris’ five-point lead in the same survey last month, which was held at 48 percent ahead of the November 5 vote.
In the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll, Harris leads 50 percent to 48 percent among likely voters. In the same poll last month, the Democrat tipped with 52% to 46%.
The latest CBS News/YouGov poll shows Harris up 51 percent to 48 percent among likely voters, compared with a four-point advantage last month.
Following the latest figures, Harris holds a 1.4 percent point lead in Real Clear Polling’s aggregate of major polls, slipping from 2.2 percent on Saturday.
Democrats worry that Harris is undermining support in two of the party’s most important constituents, Hispanics and African Americans, as the polls are getting tighter.
Despite her success among women of all races, Harris has struggled to pique the interest of men, including those from African Americans and Hispanics, who have recently become more and more drawn to Trump.
Harris won over 56% of Hispanic voters and 78 percent of Black voters in the latest polls from The New York Times/Siena College, which is significantly lower than the Democratic nominees’ victory in the 2020 and 2016 elections.
Former president Barack Obama criticized Black men on Thursday for not showing as much enthusiasm for Harris’ candidacy as he had received during his campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
“You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses, I’ve got a problem with that”, Obama said at a campaign event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of seven key battleground states expected to decide the election.
Because it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and reasons for that, and I’m speaking to men directly, part of it makes me think.
Harris and Trump on Sunday continued to focus their campaigns on the battleground states, holding events in North Carolina and Arizona, respectively.
At a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina, Harris took aim at Trump for spreading misinformation about the government’s response to recent hurricanes.
“The problem with this, beyond the obvious, is it’s making it harder, then, to get people life-saving information if they’re led to believe they cannot trust”, Harris said.
The idea that those in need have been persuaded that the forces are working against them in a way that would prevent them from requesting aid is what causes the pain in the beginning.
Trump, meanwhile, used a rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona to call for the hiring of 10, 000 additional Border Patrol agents.
Source: Aljazeera
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