Former President Donald Trump has a 3-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in North Carolina and is trailing Vice President Kamala Harris in the typically blue state of Virginia, according to a Rasmussen Reports/American Thinker poll. There is.
public opinion poll published According to reports on Friday, Mr. Trump defeated Ms. Harris 49% to 46% out of 1,078 likely voters in North Carolina.
More than 42% of North Carolina likely voters say the economy is the most important issue to them. Another 17% cited border security as a top issue, with abortion coming in third at 12%.
playing cards carried North Carolina increased by 1.3% in 2020 win This was 3.6 percentage points higher than Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who lost the race twice in 2016.
Turning to Virginia, Trump is trailing Harris by just 3 points. He received 49% of the 1,144 likely voters compared to his 46%, a bad sign for Democrats.
Biden is comfortable in 2020 won In Virginia, the difference was 10.1 percentage points; went In 2016, Clinton won by a 5.4% margin. This was followed by former President Barack Obama's victories in 2012 and 2008. The last Republican to capture the former territory was former President George W. Bush.
In December, President Trump told Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlowe and Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle that he would expand the range of battleground states to include blue-hued states such as Virginia, Minnesota and New Jersey. He said he is aiming for
“I'm going to hold rallies, I'm going to give speeches, I'm going to work hard,” Trump said at the time. “That doesn't mean I'm going to make them work as hard as I do in Pennsylvania, where I'm doing very well.”
As in North Carolina, the economy is a top issue for several voters in Virginia. Thirty-two percent of respondents said the economy is their top priority, followed by border security (17%) and abortion (13%).
The survey also measured the state of the Michigan race among 1,086 likely voters. In the Wolverine State, Trump and Harris are tied with 48% each. More than 35 percent of respondents said the economy was their most pressing issue. Border security and abortion both followed at 15%.
The margin of error for each state is ±3 percentage points, and sampling occurred between September 19 and 22.
