A surprising Iowa poll has Vice President Kamala Harris with a slight lead in the state over former President Donald Trump.
A surprising Iowa poll that shows Vice President Kamala Harris with a slight lead in the state over former President Donald Trump has thrown a “monkey wrench” into the homestretch of the campaign, according to Rick Klein, ABC News Washington bureau chief and political director.
With a day to go before Election Day, a Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll conducted by renowned Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer showed Harris with a 47% to 44% advantage among likely voters over Trump, who scored solid victories in the Hawkeye State in 2016 and 2020 presidential races.
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The poll, released on Saturday, follows a Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll in September that gave Trump a four-percentage-point lead over Harris in Iowa, and one in June that had him with an 18-point lead over President Joe Biden, who was then the presumptive Democratic nominee.
“This really threw a monkey wrench into everyone’s pre-election analysis”, Klein said on “ABC News Live” Sunday night. “This is a poll in Iowa – yes, Iowa – that has Kamala Harris leading by three points.”
Trump took to social media to attack both the Des Moines Register poll and Selzer, who has overseen the Register’s polls since 1987 and whom Klein described as a “very reputable pollster.”
“No President has done more for FARMERS, and the Great State of Iowa, than Donald J.
