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Harris, Trump battle for edge in tight race
What happened
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris jockeyed for advantage this week as polls showed a neck-and-neck race for the White House, with former President Trump promising new tariffs and a crackdown on immigration and Vice President Harris unveiling plans to protect abortion rights and spur domestic manufacturing. With less than six weeks until Election Day, some polls showed a post-debate bounce for Harris. An NBC News poll had the Democratic nominee up 5 percentage points nationally on her Republican rival, 49 to 44 percent, with her approval rating climbing 16 points since July to 48 percent. A Morning Consult survey put her up by 5 points nationally over Trump; other polls showed her up 5 points in Michigan and Pennsylvania and 7 points in Wisconsin. But a CNN/SSRS poll put her 1 point ahead of Trump nationally, and a New York Times/Siena College poll showed Trump with rising leads in Sun Belt swing states: up 5 points in Arizona, 4 in Georgia, and 2 in North Carolina.
In a Pittsburgh speech on economic policy, Harris promised “a new way forward” for the middle class and cast herself as a pragmatist not “constrained by ideology.” She promised to cut taxes for working people and expand “good union jobs,”while casting Trump as a friend to “those who own the big skyscrapers, not those who actually build them.” Harris said she supported ending the filibuster so Congress could pass a bill protecting abortion rights, a stance assailed by moderate Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia; Manchin said he wouldn’t endorse Harris as a result.
Trump outlined his own economic plans at an event in Savannah, Ga., vowing that a mix of tariffs and corporate tax cuts would spark a U.S.“manufacturing renaissance.” He told a crowd in Wilmington, N.C., that immigrants are “stealing your jobs” and “attacking villages and cities all throughout the Midwest.”Trump, who is polling badly among women, vowed in a pair of speeches and a Truth Social post to be their “protector.”Women will be “happy, healthy, confident, and free” under a Trump presidency, he explained, and will “no longer be thinking about abortion.”
Whatthe editorials said
A “desperate”Trump is doubling down on alarming rhetoric about immigrants, said The Philadelphia Inquirer. He claims Venezuelan gangs are taking over Colorado towns, Haitians are eating Ohioans’ pets, and that immigrants are “animals” who are “poisoning the blood” of the nation. The truth is that immigrants make us a “richer and stronger” nation, and Trump’s plan to deport millions of undocumented migrants would devastate our economy. But this isn’t about the truth—“it is about who belongs in Trump’s America.”