Trump Slightly Ahead of Harris in WSJ Poll

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

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A.M. Edition for Oct. 24. WSJ politics editor Ben Pershing says voters have adopted a more positive view of Donald Trump’s past performance and a more negative view of Kamala Harris, but cautions that the former president’s narrow lead is within the poll’s margin of error. Plus, private Medicare insurers got billions for questionable home diagnoses, a new inspector general’s report says. And the WSJ’s Stephen Wilmot says Tesla’s progress on costs and a bullish outlook for 2025 deliveries have boosted investor confidence. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.7	Journal polling finds Donald Trump taking a narrow lead over Kamala Harris in the closing weeks of the race.
0:26.0	Plus Boeing workers dig in their heels over contract talks and Tesla stock shifts into higher gear on news of falling EV production costs.
0:37.0	It reinvigorates confidence in Tesla's wider growth story, which is all about taking costs out of EVs, democratizing the
0:45.5	technology, not just being a niche luxury EV makeup. It's Thursday, October 24th.
0:51.6	I'm Luke Fargis for the Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of
0:55.3	What's News? The top headlines and business stories moving your world today. day.
1:05.0	We begin today with a look at the deadlocked race for the White House.
1:10.0	Donald Trump has opened up a two percentage point lead over Kamala Harris in a new
1:18.1	nationwide poll by the Wall Street Journal that is on a ballot that includes third party and independent candidates and marks a four percentage point swing from August when Harris was slightly ahead of Trump.
1:31.0	Our Anthony Bancy spoke to Journal Politics editor Ben Pershing about what's driving
1:35.8	this shake up of the race.
1:37.4	I think there are two things that's driving it, one about Trump, one about Harris.
1:41.5	One thing that really struck us is that voters are really growing
1:44.2	more fond in their recollections of Trump when he was president. It's now 52% of
1:49.4	them approve of the job he did back when he was president and what's interesting about that
1:53.2	is that his actual job approval ratings were never that good when he was in the White House.
1:56.8	Their personal views of Harris have gotten more negative since our last poll.
2:00.7	They've kind of ticked down steadily. Early on when she first became a Democratic
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