Harris debate performance not enough to beat Trump’s edge in southern battleground state: poll
Vice President Kamala Harris’ victory in Tuesday’s presidential debate did little to convert voters in North Carolina — a new poll indicates Donald Trump may have even gained ground in the battleground state.
Trump edged out Harris 48.4% to 46% among likely voters, according to a Trafalgar Group poll released Saturday.
The poll, conducted Sept. 11 and 12, mirrors surveys from August that showed Trump leading Harris by just two points, but suggests 2% of her supporters may have switched camps despite his lackluster performance on the Philadelphia stage this week.
Most of the 1,094 chose the Republican nominee when asked whom they would vote for “if the election for president were held today.”
Just 3.1% of voters said they were still undecided, while another 2.4% chose candidates other than Trump or Harris.
The participants were mainly white females, according to the results.
Only about 34% of the respondents identified as an ethnicity other than white, while there were about 10% more women who participated.
Participants were fairly split between party lines: 35.2% identified as Republican, while 33.1% were Democrat. The rest fell somewhere outside the red and blue.
An August Survey USA poll from High Point University showed the vice president with a “whisker-thin” lead in a Tar Heel State, where she was up up 3 points with registered voters and 2 points with likely voters.
The FiveThirtyEight polling average for the state shows Harris up by the narrowest possible margin, at just one-tenth of a percentage point.
