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Kamala Harris is counting on her strength with college-educated voters

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    13% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Trump, the Republican presidential nominee in the third consecutive election, has gained support among Black men, Latinos and non-college-educated voters.
56% : Among non-college-educated voters, Trump leads by nine points -- slightly higher than his five-point margin in 2020.
51% : On Jan. 6, 2021, Trump held a rally at the Ellipse, where he urged his supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol as Congress was finalizing the presidential election results.
51% : In his speech, Trump told the crowd to "fight" for him and to "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
41% : Murphy said the campaign's focus on Trump is also salient with other voter groups, including voters without college degrees, but that those groups also care about the economy, health care and other issues.
40% : But her pivot in the campaign's final weeks to spend most of her time warning that Trump is unhinged and unfit for the presidency is informed by internal polling that shows such messaging could help drive up turnout among undecided voters, especially those with college degrees.
40% : "What we're seeing is a seismic shift for Republicans -- college educated voters, especially white voters with degrees, have been reliable for Republicans for decades, but now they're turning away from Trump and his toxicity," Jim Messina, who steered Obama's 2012 campaign, said in a statement.
33% : Harris's speech will focus on more than Trump, according to a campaign official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to preview remarks that are not yet final.
29% : "Harris will deliver what she views as her closing argument to the American people on Tuesday in a speech from the Ellipse in Washington, the site where Trump spoke just before the Jan. 6 riot.
26% : "Polls show Harris and Trump in a static, deadlocked race with just 10 days to go until Election Day.
26% : Check out how Harris and Trump stack up according to The Washington Post's presidential polling averages of seven battleground states.
25% : She plans to position herself as a defender of national security and president for all Americans and argue that Trump poses a unique danger to the country.

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