Donald Trump, Kamala Harris neck and neck in Michigan, but top issues favor the GOP: new polls
New surveys of the Wolverine State are the latest to show the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is too close to call — and Michiganders’ concerns seem to put the former prez at an advantage.A Mitchell Research and Communication poll of 600 likely voters conducted Sept.10 finds the race is tied at 48% when the two major-party candidates are isolated from the larger field.With an expanded field that includes Robert Kennedy, Libertarian Chase Oliver, Green Party pick Jill Stein and other, even more minor candidates, Harris leads 47% to 46%.Voters are also split on who will win the race: 40% think Harris will prevail, while 38% see Trump triumphing.And remarkably, this week’s presidential debate didn’t change much.While 57% of respondents say they watched the whole telecast, nine out of 10 people report their minds weren’t changed.
Five percent say the debate moved them from Harris to Trump, with 3% going in the other direction.The slight but real movement to Trump is especially notable given that 56% of those Michiganders who watched the debate believe the vice president won, nearly double the 29% who see the former president as the victor.That said, 41% of respondents say the debate won’t affect their vote at all.Issues are also on Trump’s side in the Great Lakes State, with 36% of respondents saying the economy is the biggest one; 18% key in on immigration as their principal preoccupation as they prepare to vote.Half of respondents trust Trump over Harris to handle the issue most important to them, while 47% take the contrary view.And a just-released Cygnal poll of 600 likely general-election voters, conducted between Aug.
28 and Sept.1, shows a similarly too-close-to-call landscape.Harris leads Trump 47% to 46%, with the race tied among independent voters.Pollster Chris Lane thinks that despite Democrats’ nominal lead, conservatives should be heartened by the results here.“Undecided Independents will likely be the deciding group in th...