Harris leads Trump in 5 battleground states, poll finds
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
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Vice President Kamala Harris is ahead or tied with former President Donald Trump in six of seven battleground states, according to a new survey.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik has resigned.
USA TODAY Reporter Lucy Tompkins explains how a housing voucher program is failing poor families.
The World Health Organization declares mpox a global public health emergency.
USA TODAY Personal Finance Reporter Daniel de Visé breaks down how much you really need in emergency savings.
Hurricane Ernesto knocks out power to half of Puerto Rico.
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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 Taylor Wilson and today is Thursday August 15th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.8 | excerpt. Today Harris leads Trump in a number of battleground states, plus why a housing voucher program |
| 0:28.1 | is failing many poor families and how much an emergency savings do you really need? |
| 0:35.0 | Vice President Kamla Harris is ahead or tied with former President Donald Trump in six of seven battleground states, |
| 0:42.0 | according to a new survey out yesterday. |
| 0:44.4 | The latest data erases the leads Trump saw before President Joe Biden dropped out |
| 0:49.3 | of the race last month. |
| 0:50.8 | The Cook political report survey of seven key swing states found Harris |
| 0:55.2 | leading Trump in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Arizona and |
| 1:00.8 | and tied with him in Georgia. |
| 1:03.2 | Nevada is the only battleground state that Trump still leads, the poll found. |
| 1:07.6 | Harris's lead in three states is within the margin of error. |
| 1:11.3 | The findings suggest multiple paths to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the |
| 1:15.9 | election have opened up for Harris. |
| 1:18.3 | Biden's relative struggles in the Sunbelt states of Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina had forced his campaign |
| 1:25.9 | to increasingly bank on the so-called Blue Wall States, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. |
| 1:33.1 | Trump led Biden in six of the seven battleground states |
| 1:36.0 | and was tied with him in Wisconsin |
| 1:38.3 | in a survey the same pollsters conducted in May. |
| 1:49.0 | Columbia University President Manus Shefique resigned yesterday. The decision comes after her handling of pro-Palestinian protests on campus earlier this year and nationwide debates |
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