Kamala Harris hit with Donald Trump polling shock after debate
Kamala Harris is trailing Donald Trump by one point in the key swing state of Michigan, according to a poll conducted after the debate.
Multiple pundits and surveys declared the vice president the winner of her Tuesday showdown with Donald Trump.
But an Insider Advantage poll of 800 voters found 49 percent are backing Trump, and 48 percent are backing Harris.
The results are further proof the election could be one of the closest in history.
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New poll shows Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris in key battleground state
A new poll of the crucial swing state of Michigan shows warning signs for Kamala Harris as she looks to secure the so-called Democratic ‘blue wall.’
The InsiderAdvantage poll shows Donald Trump leading by one point in the state.
It has the GOP nomineee at 49 percent and Harris at 48 percent signaling it’s going to be an extremely close race in the must-win state for Democrats on their path to the White House.
The InsiderAdvantage poll was conducted of 800 likely voters September 11 and 12, after the presidential debate.
Michigan has 15 electoral votes up for grabs come November. Trump managed to flip the state red in 2016 but it went for President Biden in 2020 and Democrats have since taken a trifecta in the state.
The Real Clear Politics average has Harris up by less than one point in the state.
By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent
President Joe Biden criticized Donald Trump for spreading false reports of migrants eating pets, saying it was leading to attacks on the Haitian community.
The ‘Haitian American community is under attack right now,’ Biden said at the White House during an event for Black Excellence.
‘There’s no place in America for this. It has to stop. What he’s doing has to stop,’ he said.
Trump has doubled down on his comments that migrants in Springfield City, Ohio, are eating pets. The false rumor has spread on the internet and lead to threats in the community.
Rob Rue, the mayor of Springfield, Ohio, said that the bomb threat made on Thursday that forced the evacuation of the city hall, two schools, and other buildings in the community was explicitly anti-immigrant and hostile to the city’s Haitian community, following Trump’s stoking of a rightwing conspiracy theory that some residents’ pets are being eaten.
