Livengood: Inflation-worn voters loom over Harris as she prepares to debate Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : On an economic message, the latest Detroit News-WDIV poll shows Trump has the advantage among all voters.
60% : The only area Trump performs better with voters than the economy is border security and immigration with a 19 point advantage over Harris.
56% : When asked whom they trust more with the economy, Trump had a 13 point lead over Harris among all voters surveyed.
47% : One Democratic strategist noted it's still early -- there are 56 days to go for those counting at home -- and Tuesday's debate presents Harris with an opportunity to draw contrasts on economic policy and financial security with Trump, whose meandering answer in one forum last week for solving the nation's child care crisis was to level more tariffs on foreign goods, slash taxes for corporations and boost energy production.
43% : For Smith, who is Black, it's a simple economic decision: Rent and groceries cost less when Trump was president from 2017 to 2021.
39% : Conversely, Harris led Trump by 30 points among college-educated women.
37% : He says what he's going to do," Smith said of Trump.
36% : Read full results hereA crucial bloc of votersWomen without a college education working at the lower rungs of the economic ladder were a crucial bloc of voters who helped carry Trump to a narrow victory over Hillary Clinton in Michigan by 10,704 votes in 2016, pollster Richard Czuba said.More: 2016 exit poll: Michigan white working-class voters favor Trump 2-1"These are female voters that, yeah, if the economy is OK they'll focus on other issues," Czuba said.
31% : Herzenstiel said she's voting for Trump because she feels he's more prepared to lead than Harris.
31% : Alper said abortion could still come on the table for female voters focused on economic issues right now after Trump recently said he would vote against a ballot proposal in Florida allowing abortion up until the point a fetus is viable, usually at 24 weeks of pregnancy.
24% : Florida, where Trump is registered to vote, has banned abortions six weeks after a woman becomes pregnant, one of the nation's strictest laws on the procedure following the fall of Roe v. Wade two years ago -- a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Trump has taken credit for.
22% : More: How 'minor shifts' could swing a close presidential race in MichiganMore: Harris and Trump are getting ready for Tuesday's debate in sharply different waysMore: Detroit News-WDIV poll shows tight presidential race in Michigan.
19% : The issue is considered a strength for Trump, including among segments of female voters, according to nationwide and Detroit News-WDIV-TV polling in Michigan, and one that Harris and her Democratic allies are trying to blunt.
17% : Vice presidential nominee JD Vance has recently pledged Trump would veto a federal-level abortion ban.
16% : Trump has said the six-week ban is too restrictive, but came out against the 24-week proposal after feeling blowback from social conservatives.
9% : "The her, of course, is Kamala Harris, who as Biden's vice president carries the baggage of paycheck-consuming inflation into Tuesday night's first and possibly only nationally televised debate with Trump on ABC from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
5% : In a poll that found Trump with a narrow 1.2 percentage point lead over Harris in Michigan -- practically a dead heat since it was within the Aug. 26-29 survey's margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points -- Trump had an eight-point lead among women who don't have a college degree.

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