Exclusive poll: With 15 days to go, the Presidential race is a tie
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🗓️ 21 October 2024
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With 15 days until election day, a new and exclusive USA TODAY Suffolk University poll shows the presidential race is a virtual tie. USA TODAY Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page shares the poll’s key findings.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Sarah Gannum filling in for Taylor Wilson. Today is Monday |
| 0:16.0 | October 21st, 2024. This is the excerpt. Today, what a new USA Today's Suffolk University poll says about the presidential race. |
| 0:31.0 | Plus, Democrats are taking a page from Republicans' playbook in questioning Trump's age and mental fitness. |
| 0:38.0 | And we're taking a look at why fewer students are disclosing their race in applications at selective universities. |
| 0:47.0 | A new USA Today, Suffolk University poll is out. |
| 0:50.6 | With 15 days to go until the election, what insights does it reveal? |
| 0:55.0 | For more on this story, I talked to USA Today, Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page. |
| 1:00.0 | Susan Page, thank you so much. It is two weeks and one day until election day. |
| 1:05.8 | Yeah, Sarah, and we're all counting. Yes, we are. All right, let's get started. |
| 1:10.0 | So there's new polling data out, Susan. What's the big finding here? |
| 1:13.4 | This is our latest USA Today Suffolk University poll. |
| 1:16.8 | It's the final poll we're taking before election day. |
| 1:20.8 | And in it we find this is essentially a tie. |
| 1:24.6 | Kamala Harris at 45% Donald Trump at 44% you know with a 3.1 percentage |
| 1:31.0 | point margin of error that is a coin toss race and it is closer than our previous |
| 1:36.9 | poll. We had taken a poll in the wake of the Democratic National Convention that had |
| 1:41.3 | Kamala Harris up five points that lead has now eroded. Well a tie |
| 1:46.0 | that's not such great news for Trump you know a tie is a tie and yet it's not always |
| 1:52.2 | a tie this is a tie in the national popular |
| 1:54.3 | vote that's what we're measuring but of course we elect presidents to the |
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