{"id":2330412,"date":"2024-08-24T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T13:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-harris-in-dead-heat-in-pennsylvania-polling-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T09:48:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T13:48:32","slug":"trump-harris-in-dead-heat-in-pennsylvania-polling-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-harris-in-dead-heat-in-pennsylvania-polling-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Harris in dead heat in Pennsylvania polling &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-harris-in-dead-heat-in-pennsylvania-polling-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2330412&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kathy-hochul-downplays-new-york-crime-spike-high-profile-instances-create-sense-of-fear\/\" title=\"Kathy Hochul Downplays New York Crime Spike: \u2018High-Profile Instances\u2019 Create \u2018Sense of Fear\u2019\">recent polling average<\/a>\u200d by Real Clear Politics, Vice President Kamala Harris and \u2062former President Donald Trump are in a \u2064tight race in Pennsylvania, a crucial state for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rand-paul-offers-dr-rachel-levine-as-example-of-radical-agenda-riding-bidens-coattails\/\" title=\"Sen. Rand Paul Offers Dr. Rachel Levine As Example Of Radical Agenda Riding Biden\u2019s Coattails\">upcoming presidential election<\/a>.\u2062 The\u200b polling\u200b shows only a 0.2 percentage point difference between the two candidates, \u2063with each\u2062 leading \u2063in various surveys. Harris, who\u200c has recently\u200c accepted the Democratic nomination for president, aims to offer a hopeful vision\u200c for the future\u200d while highlighting her background as a child of immigrants and her commitment to middle-class support and reproductive rights. This\u200b contest is notable given\u2062 Pennsylvania&#8217;s recent electoral history, where both candidates have previously secured victories \u2063in prior elections. As\u2063 the\u200c campaign progresses, the dynamics in this battleground state will be \u2062critical to watch.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump, Harris in dead heat in Pennsylvania polling<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1737028\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square)&nbsp;<strong>&ndash;<\/strong>&nbsp;Friday&rsquo;s polling average from Real Clear Politics shows a dead heat between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-sidney-powell-witness-whom-ny-times-described-as-always-the-smartest-person-in-the-room-concludes-hundreds-of-thousands-of-votes-transferred-from-trump-to-biden-in-all-battleground-states\/\" title=\"HUGE! Sidney Powell Witness Whom NY Times Described as &quot;Always the Smartest Person in the Room&quot; Concludes Hundreds of Thousands of Votes Transferred from Trump to Biden IN ALL BATTLEGROUND STATES\">key battleground state<\/a> in the battle for the White House.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/pennsylvania\/trump-vs-harris\">RCP average<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;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%.<\/p>\n<p>Of note, Trump&rsquo;s two-tenths of a point lead when polls are averaged doesn&rsquo;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%.<\/p>\n<p>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.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-dodges-calls-to-become-house-speaker-were-leading-by-like-50-points\/\" title=\"Trump avoids requests to become House speaker, citing a significant lead of around 50 points.\">2 percentage points ahead<\/a> in 2016. Trump got the state&rsquo;s 20 electoral college votes in 2016, winning by 0.7%; Biden got the 20 in 2020, winning by 1.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania has 19 electoral college votes this year.<\/p>\n<p>Harris&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_4f7e5cfe-60fd-11ef-a023-bbf69c7df352.html\">formally accepted the Democratic nomination<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;for president on Thursday night, promising to move the country forward past &ldquo;bitterness, cynicism and divisive battles.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During a week of glowing praise at the Democratic National Convention, party supporters pointed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carson-points-out-that-every-democratic-plan-has-backfired-in-trumps-favor-as-seen-in-the-bible-2\/\" title=\"Carson points out that every Democratic plan has backfired in Trump&#039;s favor, as seen in the Bible\">vice president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s humble beginnings &ndash; as a child born to immigrants in Oakland, Calif., who worked at McDonald&rsquo;s while pursuing a bachelor&rsquo;s degree at Howard University &ndash; as the bedrock of her commitment to supporting the middle class and protecting reproductive rights.<\/p>\n<p>But the rosy characterization wasn&rsquo;t always so for Harris, who many critics believed incapable of stepping out of the long shadow of Biden&rsquo;s economic and national security policies amid skyrocketing inflation and U.S. involvement in wars in Gaza and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s unclear what impact the convention will have on Harris&rsquo; favorability among voters, though candidates historically enjoy a polling bump after the event wraps.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump &ndash;&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_0edf1626-4577-11ef-85f0-73d289aa06d4.html\">who accepted his party&rsquo;s nomination on July 18 at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&ndash; has billed himself as a political outsider and the target of an establishment bent on lining their own pockets.<\/p>\n<p>That sentiment, though central to Trump&rsquo;s campaign rhetoric since 2016, was amplified 10-fold after a&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_44b1609c-4167-11ef-95da-4f60207d2613.html\">would-be assassin opened fire at the former president&rsquo;s political rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13<\/a><\/strong>, killing one man and wounding two others. Trump narrowly escaped injury after he turned his head just beyond the bullet&rsquo;s path, walking away with a grazed earlobe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1737028\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1737028\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump and Harris are neck-and-neck in Pennsylvania polls (The Center Square) \u2013 According to the latest polling average from Real Clear Politics, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are in a tight race in Pennsylvania, an important swing state for the presidential election. The two candidates are separated by only 0.2 percentage points, with Trump maintaining a slight lead that previously had him ahead of President Joe Biden by 9 points before Biden exited the race on July 21. The RCP average reflects data collected from polls conducted between July 22 and August 19. In six out of ten polls, Trump leads by margins ranging from 1 to 4 percentage points, while Harris holds similar leads in three matchups. A Fox News poll taken between July 22 and July 24 with a sample of 1,034 registered voters indicated that the candidates were tied; this poll has a margin of error of 2%. Notably, Trump&#8217;s narrow lead does not account for margin of error as is typical in most polling analyses. The range for these ten polls varies from a low of 2.4% to a high of 3.9%. On August 23 during the last two presidential elections, RCP averages showed Biden leading Trump by 5.7 percentage points in 2020 and Hillary Clinton ahead by 9.2 percentage points in 2016. In both those years, Pennsylvania&#8217;s electoral votes\u201420 total\u2014were won narrowly: Trump took them with a victory margin of just over half a percent in &#8217;16 while Biden won them with just over one percent margin four years later; this year Pennsylvania has reduced its electoral vote count to nineteen.<\/p>\n<p>Harris officially accepted her party&#8217;s nomination for president on Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention where she emphasized her commitment to moving beyond &#8220;bitterness&#8221; and &#8220;divisive battles.&#8221; Supporters highlighted her humble beginnings as an immigrant child who worked at McDonald&#8217;s while studying at Howard University as evidence of her dedication to middle-class issues and reproductive rights advocacy. However, some critics have questioned whether she can break free from Biden\u2019s economic policies amid rising inflation and ongoing U.S involvement abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the convention on Harris&#8217; popularity remains uncertain; historically candidates tend to see an increase in support following such events.<\/p>\n<p>On another front, Trump accepted his party&#8217;s nomination on July18 during the Republican National Convention held in Milwaukee where he positioned himself as an outsider fighting against an establishment focused on self-interest\u2014a theme central to his campaign since his first run back in &#8217;16 but intensified after he survived an assassination attempt during one rally earlier this month which left one person dead and two others injured when shots were fired at him while he was speaking near Butler PA; he narrowly avoided injury himself after turning away just before being hit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2330413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/kamala-harris-donald-trump-north-carolina-rating-aug-2024.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3728,4021,5836,15698,3634],"class_list":["post-2330412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-election","tag-harris","tag-pennsylvania","tag-polling","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/kamala-harris-donald-trump-north-carolina-rating-aug-2024.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}