Two new polls show Trump-Harris race as virtual tie, giving GOP...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Trump emerged as the favorite on immigration (53% to 45%).
59% : Both surveys indicate that Trump will become the 47th president, due to recent Democratic candidates' propensity to rack up big popular vote margins in states like New York and California.
59% : According to the RealClearPolitics polling aggregate, Harris leads Trump by 2.1 percentage points nationally -- the same margin as Clinton eight years ago.
51% : Likely voters in the CNN poll had more faith in Trump's economic stewardship by double digits (50%-39%), while Quinnipiac found 52% favoring Trump on the economy compared to 45% favoring Harris.
49% : Echoing other polls, both surveys found Trump with the advantage over Harris on the key issue of the economy.
41% : In a Quinnipiac University poll, Trump led Harris among likely voters, 48%-47%, while a CNN poll showed Harris on top by the same margin with the same cohort.
41% : On other big issues, voters in the CNN poll favored Trump on immigration (49%-35%) and foreign policy (47%-40%), while Harris got the edge on abortion (52%-31%), unifying the nation (43%-30%) and safeguarding democracy (47%-40%).
30% : Four years ago, President Biden defeated Trump with 306 electoral votes, but needed a 4.5 percentage point edge in the popular vote to achieve that tally.Democrats have won the popular vote in every election but one since 1992.
21% : "Meanwhile, the CNN poll showed four in 10 Harris supporters described their vote as more against Trump than supporting Harris, while nearly three-quarters (72%) of Trump backers said their vote was an expression of support for the former president.
21% : The Connecticut-based pollster also found that more voters both thought Trump would be a great president (28%-19%) -- and that he would be a terrible president (41%-37%).
20% : Nearly two-thirds (64%) of respondents told Quinnipiac they would like a second debate between Trump and Harris, despite the 45th president ruling out the prospect earlier this month.
16% : In 2016, Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by 2.1 percentage points while winning 304 electoral votes.

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