(The Center Square) – Friday’s polling average from Real Clear Politics shows a dead heat between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state in the battle for the White House.
Just 0.2 percentage points separate Trump and Harris, with the GOP nominee clinging to a residual lead that dominated President Joe Biden by 9 points before he bowed out of the race on July 21.
The RCP average represents results gathered by pollsters between July 22 and Aug. 19. In six of the 10 polls, Trump leads between 1 percentage point and 4 percentage points. In three matchups, Harris commands the same leads. A Fox News poll conducted between July 22 and July 24 that surveyed 1,034 registered voters found the candidates to be tied. The margin of error on the poll was 2%.
Of note, Trump’s two-tenths of a point lead when polls are averaged doesn’t factor in margin of error as is common to most polls. The range of smallest to largest in the 10 is 2.4% to 3.9%.
On Aug. 23 of the past two presidential election years, the RCP average showed Biden up 5.7 percentage points over Trump in 2020 and Hillary Clinton 9.2 percentage points ahead in 2016. Trump got the state’s 20 electoral college votes in 2016, winning by 0.7%; Biden got the 20 in 2020, winning by 1.2%.
Pennsylvania has 19 electoral college votes this year.
Harris formally accepted the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday night, promising to move the country forward past “bitterness, cynicism and divisive battles.”
During a week of glowing praise at the Democratic National Convention, party supporters pointed to the vice president’s humble beginnings – as a child born to immigrants in Oakland, Calif., who worked at McDonald’s while pursuing a bachelor’s degree at Howard University – as the bedrock of her commitment to supporting the middle class and protecting reproductive rights.
But the rosy characterization wasn’t always so for Harris, who many critics believed incapable of stepping out of the long shadow of Biden’s economic and national security policies amid skyrocketing inflation and U.S. involvement in wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
It’s unclear what impact the convention will have on Harris’ favorability among voters, though candidates historically enjoy a polling bump after the event wraps.
Meanwhile, Trump – who accepted his party’s nomination on July 18 at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee – has billed himself as a political outsider and the target of an establishment bent on lining their own pockets.
That sentiment, though central to Trump’s campaign rhetoric since 2016, was amplified 10-fold after a would-be assassin opened fire at the former president’s political rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13, killing one man and wounding two others. Trump narrowly escaped injury after he turned his head just beyond the bullet’s path, walking away with a grazed earlobe.
I am convinced that Democrats have a mental disorder and are disciples of Satan.
Running a dead heat with Kamala is like sliding head first into a post mortem media menstruation, then getting handed a tampon to wipe away your tears with after being told by the democrats to suck it up and pack it in. William Penn must be spinning in his grave to see the New World Colony he founded and was named after, turn into a modern-day nudist colony created by a naked power grabbing Democrat party of social parasites. Watching the hip hopping half naked tatoo’d mark of the beast Convention entertainers, you just have to know that they and their kind are what made the people of Sodom and Gomorrah get turned into the real salt of the earth,,,,,and the pillars of society in their look-back leadership into actual pillars of salt.
Friday’s polling average from Real Clear Politics shows a dead heat between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state in the battle for the White House.
How the ^$%@ is this even possible ??? Who’s voting for this communist traitor ???
The are polling 90% democrat registered voters to fool THE PEOPLE into their warped reality, so they can assume the close, like a used car salesmen that sells you invisible paintg sealant, and your car and economy turns into a rust bucket withing 6 months of exposure to them.
Kamala- “Oh my God,,,”Imagine an elected Donald Trump without any guardrails?””??,,,,,,Cant’t be half as bad as having to endure 4 more years of America being run by Kamala and Tampon Tim without any Training wheels. Can another BIden bicycle demolition derby be far behind where they fall and hit the pavement after running most of WE THE PEOPLE and outr economy off the road in wrong way turn signal regulations.
HER fellow traitors.. That’s who!
Pennsylvania, a key battleground state in the battle for the White House.
The problem there is that the last election they allowed the votes cast results to be certified even knowing that there was over 100,000 votes more cast then there were REGISTERED VOTERS. Just HOW could this have been allowed!!
BECAUSE the DEMS Controlled the courts in PA!