Former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris among working-class voters by the same margin he led President Joe Biden by in June, according to new polls. The New York Times/Poll by University of Siena.
In opinion polls, carried out The survey, conducted Sept. 3-6, 2024, and released Sunday, shows Trump leading Harris by 17 points (56 percent to 39 percent) among non-college-educated voters.
A poll conducted just days before the fateful June 27 debate showed that Marked Biden's political demise left Trump leading Biden among working-class voters, 54 percent to 37 percent.
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“The Democratic Party is a very important player in the Democratic Party,” said Louis Texiera, a prominent Democratic political scientist who is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and political editor and co-founder of the Liberal Patriot newsletter. pointed The Liberal Patriot reported on the developments on Thursday.
He noted that compared to 2020, Harris' support among key subgroups of working-class voters is significantly lower than Biden's, which will pose a major problem for Democrats.
Learn more The New York Times The results show that Harris is 10 points worse off among white working-class voters and 18 points worse off among middle-class voters compared to Biden in 2020. Non-white Working-class voters, although Harris' support among them has improved significantly since Biden dropped out.
No sweet words neededThis is a real problem for the Democratic Party. College-educated Americans may be thrilled with Harris, but working-class Americans Apparently not.And there are many more working-class Americans than college-educated Americans. Overwhelming majority They make up about two-thirds of eligible voters, and even when turnout patterns are taken into account, they are only slightly less prevalent among actual voters (about three-fifths). Additionally, in all seven key battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — the percentage of working-class voters and the percentage of working-class voters in 2024 is Higher than the national average. [Emphasis added]
Latest TimesThe Siena College poll found Trump ahead of Harris 48 percentage points to 47 percentage points in a national survey of 1,695 voters, a narrower gap than the 4-point gap Biden faced in June.
When asked about the most important issues towards the end of the election, the economy (22%) and immigration (15%) were the first and second most important answers among working-class voters.
These issues are crucial to determining the outcome of the election, and are inextricably linked. Neil Munro of Breitbart News detailed on Tuesday how Biden aides are using immigration to grow America's low-wage economy.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
