Throughout his campaign, former President Donald Trump has relied heavily on voter discontent with the Biden administration’s handling of the economy, but recent polling suggests that such sentiment from voters isn’t sticking to Vice President Kamala Harris, flashing a major warning sign for the Republican’s chances in November.
The latest Associated Press/NORC survey found that voters trust Trump and Harris to handle the economy to a near-even degree. Forty-three percent of respondents indicated they preferred Trump on the issue, compared to 41% who preferred Harris. Trump also enjoyed an advantage on immigration, 45% to 40%, and on the Israel-Hamas War, 36% to 33%. But Harris outperformed Trump on health care, crime, abortion, gun policy, and climate change.
Conducted Sept. 12-16, the survey questioned 1,771 registered voters and has a margin of error of +/- 3.4%. The AP/NORC survey could be something of an outlier as most surveys have shown Trump to enjoy a broad advantage on economic issues. The poll does not provide a partisan breakdown of the voter sample, but says the sample was “drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population.”
An AP/NORC survey from late June, meanwhile, showed that 34% approved of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy, compared to 64% who disapproved. […]
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