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Poll reveals how voters are divided on election fraud concerns

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

With just over a month to go until Election Day, the presidential race is still neck and neck. Political correspondent Lisa Desjardins breaks down the findings from the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Let's delve further into our PBS news NPR Marist poll that was released today.

0:05.3

The top line with just over a month to go until election day, the presidential race is still

0:10.5

neck and neck.

0:11.6

Our political correspondent Lisa Desjardin is here to break

0:14.4

down more of the findings. Good to see you Lisa. All right so just a month out.

0:18.6

How is the race looking? First of all I know viewers sometimes and all of us are

0:22.3

hesitant about polls but there are important trends to look at when you look at this race overall

0:26.3

It's essentially a dead heat so as we know I'm know with polling what's important is the trend line So let's look at the trend here.

0:33.5

You look at Harris's support since she entered the race that's in blue

0:36.6

over Trump's support in red.

0:38.2

You can see how close they have been this entire time.

0:40.8

She has been ahead.

0:42.0

Both of them have gained a little bit. That is because a few

0:44.7

voters have been deciding. Some for him, some for her. But if you look at that

0:48.6

difference, it's slight and look at the margin of error, just 3.7 percent. And if you look at the margin of error just 3.7% and if you look at across all of the

0:55.4

trend line that means this has been a tie virtually this entire time just

1:00.9

a few moments here and there where Harris has been above that margin of error.

1:05.0

Fascinating.

1:06.0

Well let me ask you about something we covered earlier this week that was in the vice

1:08.9

presidential debate.

1:10.3

J.D. Vance at the time was asked and refused to say that former President Trump had lost the

1:15.3

20 election.

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