Poll: Harris Opens Narrow Lead Over Trump
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🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 1:06.9 | the shifting state of the presidential race and we are lucky because we have our |
| 1:11.2 | polling expert Domin Dominican with us and |
| 1:13.4 | de middico i want to start with a very simple question what is the top line |
| 1:18.9 | from this latest npr p-bbbb-s news merest poll |
| 1:21.9 | well what we've seen here is that Kamla Harris is now jumped out to a slight national lead, 51 to 48. |
| 1:28.7 | Even when you factor in third party candidates, she maintains that lead, which is the first time we've seen that in this polling, even when Joe Biden was in the race. |
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