UN officials have a strange feeling about the US presidential race

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Trump has said he'll be in the city later in the week, but, like Harris, his schedule is often in flux.
60% : This is an internationally minded set well aware of the influence the U.S. president has on the rest of the world, and Harris is widely believed to be more friendly to the U.N. community than Trump, who is skeptical -- at best -- toward multilateral institutions.
59% : For Harris and Trump today, any minute spent away from the campaign trail could cost votes in a tight race.
53% : By the time Clinton and Trump arrived in New York in 2016, they had been campaigning for many months and were well-known to voters.
52% : Guterres has been pushing U.N. arms to take steps to safeguard their budgets for reasons that don't have anything to do with Trump but which could be a good buffer in case he decides to pull any funding, U.N. experts and diplomats said.
39% : In his earlier term, Trump moved to withdraw the U.S. from the U.N.'s World Health Organization during the Covid-19 pandemic.
38% : After all, as one European diplomat put it, these are people who are mainly the "good liberal elite," who "read The New York Times," and they're like, 'Oh, have you seen the polling this morning?'"Trump and Harris are both meeting with world leaders who are in the States for the U.N. meeting, though neither candidate is making it a centerpiece of their week.
26% : The Democrat shouldn't assume African leaders will automatically support her, despite her Black ancestry and despite the insults Trump hurled at African countries when he was president, the diplomat said.
25% : Diplomats and others in New York this week stressed that while they know a fair amount about Trump, Harris is still something of a mystery to them.

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