In a US presidential election this close, could the outcome be swayed by two scandals -- or the 'blue dot'?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : Trump had previously been full of praise for the 56-year-old, describing him as "unbelievable" and "one of the great stars of the party".
63% : But Trump claimed victory in North Carolina with only a very slim margin in 2020, and Kamala Harris's team is hopeful the vice-president could pick it up.
36% : Trump, meanwhile, used the saga to try to further his own argument that he'd also been the target of political prosecutions.
24% : And when Trump held a rally in North Carolina in the aftermath of the story being published, Robinson did not make an appearance or get a mention. Democrats haven't won the state in a presidential election since Barack Obama flipped it in 2008.
21% : Trump won four of Nebraska's five votes in 2020, but lost the district which takes in the more liberal-leaning city of Omaha to Biden.
20% : Trump is facing a more difficult political situation in North Carolina, where the Republican candidate for governor has become mired in scandal.
15% : The risk for Trump is that Harris's effort to link him to yet more controversy succeeds in swaying people against him in what's expected to be a very tight race.

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