US election live: Kamala Harris more trusted than Donald Trump on the economy, says poll
By Léonie Chao-Fong - Mon 12 Aug 2024 14.59 BST
Good morning US politics readers. More Americans trust Kamala Harris with the US economy than they do Donald Trump, according to a new poll that suggests the former president losing the advantage he had over Joe Biden.
The poll, conducted by the Financial Times and the University of Michigan, found that 42% of voters trust Harris on economic issues – one percentage point ahead of Trump.
The survey “marks a sharp change in voter sentiment following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the White House race” last month, the Financial Times reported. While Trump’s numbers were unchanged from last month’s poll results, Harris’s standing was a seven percentage point improvement compared with Biden’s numbers in July.
But three weeks into her presidential campaign, Harris has yet to unveil her economic policy platform, and Democrats are warning the Democratic presidential candidate and her running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, that they must solidify their economic message before Republicans bring it back to the forefront of the campaign. On Saturday, Harris said she would be releasing an official economic policy platform in the coming days. She told reporters:
It’ll be focused on the economy and what we need to do to bring down costs and also strengthen the economy.
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Editor comments.
YOU GOTTA BE JOKING!! Trump is a millionnair, having created a building empire in NYC. What has Kamala done? Apart from laughing her head off at you, the people who are fooled by the antics of the Democrats. As if Biden wasnt enough, they are now presenting a couple of laughing klowns hanging from the strings of their controllers. If they get away with scaming the people like this there is little hope of rebuilding America.
