Former President Donald Trump holds a one-point lead in his head-to-head race against Vice President Kamala Harris, an Echelon Insights poll found Monday, highlighting the way Trump can weather his opponent’s “weddie” phase since Harris joined the race last month.
Trump has a slight lead over Harris, but in reality Immutable Since Echelon Insights released its findings in July, the ratio has risen to 49-47 percent.
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Echelon Insights found the following on August 26:
- Trump: 49%
- Harris: 48%
Among the field of candidates, Trump and Harris are tied.
- Trump: 48%
- Harris: 48%
- Stein: 1%
- Oliver: 1%
- West: 1%
Public opinion poll sampling The number of voters cast between Aug. 23 and 25 was 1,031, giving a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points.
According to the poll, the top three issues facing voters were the cost of living (25%), immigration (14%) and jobs and the economy (12%).
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These issues are critical because under the Biden-Harris administration, inflation has generally soared by about 20%, millions of people have crossed the southern border, and illegal immigrants have been accused of committing violent crimes.
The administration’s performance on the most important issues is a topic the Harris campaign has tried to avoid, positioning Trump as the sitting president while claiming credit for some of the administration’s accomplishments — a contradiction that paints a false picture that Trump is to blame for the surge in immigrant crime and soaring inflation under the Biden-Harris administration.
This contradiction stems from the media’s broader failure to ignore the “dilemma” underlying Harris’ candidacy: by campaigning on policies to improve crime, inflation, and border security, Harris is forced to undermine the Biden-Harris Administration’s claims that it will solve these key problems, yet she must tout the success of the Administration’s policies to justify her own record and her candidacy.
Wendell Fsebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former war room analyst for the Republican National Committee. He is the author of: The Politics of Slave MoralityFollow Wendell “X” @WendellHusebø or The truth of society @WendellHusebo.
