Kamala Harris is closing the gap with former President Donald Trump in Iowa, new polling numbers show.
The survey conducted by the Des Moines Register and Mediacom Iowa was published Sunday, and shows Harris just four points behind her Republican rival.
Perhaps even more shockingly, the survey was taken September 8 to 11, days before Trump’s debate against Harris that many in the media are convinced Harris won.
This comes after Trump handedly won the same poll in 2016 in the same state by nearly 10 points, and again in 2020 by more than 8 points.
Both times, the survey proved prophetic, with the GOP frontrunner winning the swing state by a narrow margin.
Kamala Harris is closing the gap with former President Donald Trump in Iowa , new polling numbers show
Perhaps even more shockingly, the survey was taken September 8 to 11, days before Trump’s debate against Harris that many in the media are convinced Harris won
Barack Obama is the only Democrat to win the presidential race in Iowa since Al Gore in 2000.
No Democrat aside from Obama has won statewide since Tom Harkin was dragged over the line by the two-term president in 2008.
The poll is considered elite, having been declared by FiveThirtyEight in 2016 to be best in class.
A June poll, meanwhile, showed President Joe Biden trailing Trump by a whopping 18 points – a gap that’s seemingly since been erased with the switch in candidates.
While Trump’s lead is still outside any margin of error, the woman who runs the poll says it is not a great sign for the former president.
‘I wouldn’t say 4 points is comfortable [for Trump],’ pollster J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co. who lead the Iowa poll, told Des Moines Register.
‘The race has tightened significantly.’
Selzer asserted that the results ‘signal a change in the mood of the electorate’ since Harris’ entry into the race.
Selzer asserted that the results ‘signal a change in the mood of the electorate’ since Harris’ entry into the race
While Trump’s lead is still outside any margin of error, the woman who runs the poll says it is not a great sign for the former president
A DailyMail.com snap poll determined Harris was the winner of the debate and seemed most presidential, while Trump was deemed the most aggressive.
A positive sign for Trump, besides still leading the race, is that the poll was taken before Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s exit from election.
RFK Jr. was polling at six percent, while libertarian Chase Oliver has garnered one percent.
Now, new polling from Yahoo News/YouGov shows the vice president gaining a five-point lead over Trump among registered voters in a head-to-head match-up.
The poll of 1,755 U.S. adults conducted from September 11-13 found 50 percent of people said they would vote for Harris, while 45 percent said they would vote for Trump.
Harris trailed Trump by 9 points among independent voters – 35 percent to 44 percent – prior to the debate. The new poll now has her leading with that bloc by 10 points, 47 percent to 37 percent.
While national polling has Harris taking the lead, a new poll of the crucial swing state of Michigan shows warning signs for the vice president as she looks to secure the so-called Democratic ‘blue wall.’
The InsiderAdvantage poll shows Donald Trump leading by one point in the state.
It has the GOP nominee at 49 percent and Harris at 48 percent signaling it’s going to be an extremely close race in the must-win state for Democrats on their path to the White House.
The InsiderAdvantage poll was conducted of 800 likely voters September 11 and 12, after the presidential debate.
Trump confirmed there will not be a debate rematch with the vice president in a lengthy Truth Social post.
And now the race becomes even more chaotic after the FBI investigated an apparent second assassination attempt on Trump in Florida Sunday.
