Swing-state voters trust Trump over Harris on economy, immigration, war, leadership but race still too close to call

New Wall Street Journal polling of seven battleground states shows a race too close to call virtually everywhere — but with advantages for Republican Donald Trump on the election’s key issues.Overall, the former president tops Kamala Harris 46% to 45%.And in all the states but one, the race is a genuine jump ball in the estimation of pollsters GBAO and Fabrizio Lee, Democratic and Republican firms respectively.While the vice president leads on multi-candidate ballots in Arizona and Michigan (47% to 45% in both), as well as Georgia and Wisconsin (46% to 45% in both), Trump has a narrow edge in Nevada (47% to 42%), North Carolina and Pennsylvania (46% to 45% in both) among 600 registered voters in each state polled between Sept.

28 and Oct.8.Harris has seen gains on President Biden’s numbers in Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.But voters solidly prefer Trump on several questions about what the candidates bring to the table, including experience, where even states not leaning to him overall see him as the more seasoned choice.On “who is best able to handle” illegal immigration — which voters say is their second-top concern — respondents give the ex-prez a 16-point lead (52% to 36%).In Nevada, Trump’s up a staggering 25 points on this question, but he’s ahead in every state here.Trump is +10 on the economy, with 50% of swing-state voters seeing him as the better bet than Harris on their No.

1 election issue.That trend carries everywhere, with his biggest leads being +12 in Georgia and +11 in Pennsylvania.He’s also up 11 points (50% to 39%) over Harris when it comes to who’s trusted to tamp down inflation, and nowhere on the map is this more striking than Nevada, where 53% of voters say he’s the better bet to lower the high cost of living; Harris is at an anemic 35%.Trump is also ahead by double digits (50% to 39%) on who’s most trusted to find a resolution to Russia’s war on Ukraine, and that consensus holds across all seven states, co...