Donald Trump received a rude awakening Friday night from Fox News, when it reported fresh polling in four key states (Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) that showed three of them too close to call and the other one slipping away.
Donald Trump received a rude awakening Friday night from Fox News, when it reported fresh polling in four key states (Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) that showed three of them too close to call and the other one slipping away.
It’s not ideal for a presidential campaign to peak roughly 100 days before an election, but these surveys, especially contrasted with other polling better for Trump, show the former president’s case against President Biden doesn’t translate to one against Vice President Kamala Harris as easily as GOP strategists might have hoped.
They also show a race arguably slipping away under Trump’s nose.
Especially given a common thread of these polls seems to be a “vibe” check; in other words, battleground voters like Kamala Harris more than they do Donald Trump right now, and it’s unclear how the Republican candidate changes that.
As the Fox polls show, no matter who is ahead or behind, Trump is under water everywhere and Harris isn’t. Great for scuba diving but not great for close elections.
In Michigan, which Biden won by fewer than 3 points in 2020, the Harris-Trump race is tied at 49% in a head to head, though Trump is up 45% to 43% against Harris in a race including Robert Kennedy Jr.
