Kamala Harris is closing the gap with former President Donald Trump in Iowa, new polls show.
The Des Moines Register-Mediacom Iowa poll was released Sunday and shows Harris just four points behind her Republican rival.
Perhaps even more surprising is that the poll was conducted from September 8-11, days before the Trump vs. Harris debate that many in the media are convinced Harris won.
This comes after Trump comfortably won the same poll in 2016 in the same state by nearly 10 points, and again in 2020 by more than 8 points.
Both times, the poll proved prophetic: the Republican front-runner won the key state by a narrow margin.
Kamala Harris is closing the gap with former President Donald Trump in Iowa, new poll numbers show
Perhaps even more surprising is that the poll was conducted from September 8-11, days before the Trump vs. Harris debate, which many in the media are convinced Harris won.
Barack Obama is the only Democrat to win the presidential race in Iowa since Al Gore in 2000.
No Democrat other than Obama has won statewide since Tom Harkin was dragged to the brink by the two-term president in 2008.
The poll is considered elite, having been declared best in class by FiveThirtyEight in 2016.
Meanwhile, a June poll showed President Joe Biden trailing Trump by a whopping 18 points, a gap that has seemingly been erased since then by the change in candidates.
Although Trump’s lead is still outside any margin of error, the woman running the poll says it’s not a great sign for the former president.
“I wouldn’t say 4 points is comfortable (for Trump),” said pollster J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co., which led the Iowa poll. Des Moines Register.
“The race has become much closer.”
Selzer said the results “signal a shift in the mood of the electorate” since Harris entered the race.
Selzer said the results “signal a shift in the mood of the electorate” since Harris entered the race.
While Trump’s lead is still outside any margin of error, the woman running the poll says it’s not a great sign for the former president.
A DailyMail.com snap poll found Harris to be the debate winner and appearing the most presidential, while Trump was deemed the most aggressive.
One positive sign for Trump, aside from his continued lead in the race, is that the poll was conducted before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrew from the election.
RFK Jr. polled at six percent, while libertarian Chase Oliver polled at one percent.
Now, a new survey by Yahoo News/YouGov shows the vice president holding a five-point lead over Trump among registered voters in a head-to-head matchup.
The poll of 1,755 American adults conducted Sept. 11-13 found that 50 percent of Americans said they would vote for Harris, while 45 percent said they would vote for Trump.
Before the debate, Harris trailed Trump by nine points among independent voters (35 percent to 44 percent). The new poll now has her leading that bloc by ten points, 47 percent to 37 percent.
While national polls show Harris leading, a new survey from the crucial swing state of Michigan shows warning signs for the vice president as she seeks to secure the Democratic “blue wall.”
InsiderAdvantage’s poll shows Donald Trump leading by one point in the state.
The Republican candidate has 49 percent and Harris 48 percent, indicating that it will be an extremely close race in the state that Democrats must win on their way to the White House.
The InsiderAdvantage poll was conducted among 800 likely voters on September 11-12, after the presidential debate.
Trump confirmed there will be no rematch of the debate with the vice president in a lengthy post on Truth Social.
And now the race is getting even more chaotic after the FBI investigated an apparent second assassination attempt on Trump in Florida on Sunday.