WASHINGTON (EFE).— U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is ahead of former President Donald Trump in the key states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, according to a survey published yesterday by The New York Times.
The poll, conducted between August 5 and 9, gives a four percentage point lead in the three “swing” states, as the territories where neither party has a guaranteed victory are known in the United States.
The poll offers one of the first snapshots of voting intentions since Kamala Harris secured the party’s nomination following the departure of President Joe Biden.
Together with her vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democrat began a tour of several key states this week, including the three in which she is leading Trump according to the poll.
Kamala Harris also traveled yesterday to Arizona, another territory in dispute in the elections, where Biden won in 2020 by a narrow margin of votes.
It is the Democrat’s fourth visit to the state this year and the first since President Biden ended his re-election campaign and endorsed her in her aspirations.
Kamala, the first black woman to run for president of the United States, has built a candidacy in record time since Biden dropped out of the race in mid-July.
Record fundraising figures ($20 million in the last 24 hours, according to campaign sources) and recent polls in which he has managed to close the gap with Trump have renewed the party’s energy in the face of a disputed electoral contest on November 5.
Yesterday, Kamala said that the Federal Reserve “is independent” and that she would never interfere in its decisions if she wins the elections next November.
“The Federal Reserve is an independent entity and as chairwoman I would never interfere in the decisions it makes,” she reiterated to reporters in Phoenix, Arizona.
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2024-08-22 00:42:47
