Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has seemingly injected energy into the Democratic party after a joyful National Convention and trendy social media campaign. Now, it seems that the polls are reflecting that in some of the battleground states.
A recent Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll, conducted across battleground states after last week's convention, found the vice president has narrowed or reversed Trump's advantage on key economic issues and established herself as more trusted than her rival to protect personal freedoms.
The survey found that Harris now leads by 2 percentage points among registered voters across seven states. But she is ahead by 1 point among likely voters, a statistical tie. The statistical margin of error is 1 percentage point across the seven states.
In some of the key battleground states that Harris needs to win in order to win the White House, she has seemingly widened the gap, according to Bloomberg.
That is the case in Pennsylvania, where she now leads by four percentage points, at 51% to 47%. Similarly, in Wisconsin, she holds the strongest gap, leading the race by eight percentage points, at 52% to 44%.
Most notably, Harris has opened up new possibilities for an Electoral College victory by putting Sun Belt swing states like Georgia and Nevada back in play.
In Georgia, the Vice President is leading by 2 percentage points. This is a significant difference from other major polls, which show her slightly trailing behind former President Donald Trump by a few percentage points or statistically tied.
For instance, FiveThirtyEight's polling average, updated Aug. 30, showed the Vice President ahead of Trump by merely 0.6 percentage points.
In Nevada, she is polling at 49%, compared to Trump's 45%. That is a stark difference with her predecessor, President Joe Biden, who continued to trail behind in that state by at least three percentage points across different polls.
But a Sun Belt opening is nowhere more striking than in North Carolina, where Harris now has a 2-point lead. No Democratic presidential candidate has won there since Barack Obama in 2008, and Trump led by 10 points as recently as April.
The closest race according to Bloomberg is in Arizona, where candidates are dead even at 48%.
But looking at different issues, the economy continues to be an outlier, with its perceptions not dramatically improving for Harris since she took the helm of the ticket. Still, a majority of respondents say they were better off under Trump.
But voters appear less likely to hold Harris responsible for the economic insecurities that plagued Biden. By a 7-point margin, swing-state voters trust Harris over Trump to help the middle class. At the same time, on several economic issues, such as handling housing costs, Harris has dented Trump's advantage or even claimed the high ground.
Other issues which Harris has seemingly chipped away at, or taken over Trump include abortion, immigration and crime, and protecting personal freedoms and democracy.
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