Vice President Kamala Harris holds a slim lead over former President Trump within the essential battleground state of Michigan, a brand new ballot finds.
With simply 41 days till the presidential election on Nov. 5, Democratic candidate Harris is up three factors over Republican Trump, 48% to 45%, based on a brand new USA TODAY/Suffolk College ballot of 500 probably voters within the Nice Lake State.
The ballot was taken Sept. 16-19, after the primary and probably solely debate between Harris and Trump, and after a second assassination try in opposition to Trump on Sept. 15. It has a 4.4% margin of error.
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Harris speaks at a Labor Day occasion at Northwestern Excessive College in Detroit, Michigan, September 2, 2024. (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Six third-party candidates will even seem on the Michigan poll, together with unbiased Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his marketing campaign final month and endorsed Trump. Although every polled underneath one p.c, any of them might play spoiler if the margin between the 2 main occasion candidates tightens, based on David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk College Political Analysis Heart.
“If the Kamala Harris margin shrinks to a 1-point lead, the entire state hinges on the fringes of the Michigan ballot,” he instructed USA In the present day. “The behavior of third-party voters — people who are mocked for wasting their votes — could make the difference if they rotate to either Harris or Trump.”
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Trump attends a city corridor assembly moderated by Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders on the Dort Monetary Heart in Flint, Michigan, on September 17, 2024. (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Kennedy has sought to take away his title from the poll in a number of states since throwing his help behind Trump, together with in Michigan. Nevertheless, he’s preventing to put his title on the poll in New York, the place he was disqualified, in an obvious try to tug help from Harris within the reliably blue state.
Final month, the Michigan Supreme Courtroom, in a cut up determination, reversed a decrease court docket order that might have eliminated Kennedy’s title from the poll. The Michigan Secretary of State’s workplace has stated minor occasion candidates can not withdraw from the race as soon as they’ve gained poll entry. Kennedy has appealed his case to the U.S. sixth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals.
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The key occasion candidates for president: Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and former President Donald Trump. (Getty Pictures)
Michigan, together with fellow Rust Belt states Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, are collectively often known as the “Blue Wall.” The trio have voted for a similar presidential candidate, often a Democrat, in each election since 1988. The exception was in 2016, when Trump captured all three states in his upset victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. 4 years later, President Biden defeated Trump in Michigan and the opposite Blue Wall states, additionally successful battleground states Arizona, Georgia and Nevada within the 2020 presidential election.
The Trump and Harris campaigns have prioritized these Blue Wall states in marketing campaign stops all through the summer season.
The USA In the present day/Suffolk College ballot discovered that Harris leads Trump by three factors, 48% to 45%, in bellwether Kent County, which is residence to Grand Rapids and surrounding suburbs. Trump gained the county in 2016, 48% to Hillary Clinton’s 45%, whereas Biden prevailed there in 2020, successful 52% of the vote to Trump’s 46%.
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There’s a vital gender hole between the main occasion candidates, with Harris main amongst girls 56% to Trump’s 37% help. Males preter Trump over Harris by a margin of 54% to 39%, based on the survey.
Trump leads barely with unbiased voters, 42% to 41%.
Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
