Former President Donald Trump has gained an edge over Kamala Harris in three swing states, according to recent polling, in what serves as a stark warning for the vice president’s campaign.
According to the latest New York Times-Siena College poll of likely voters, conducted between September 17 and 21, Trump is leading the vice president in the sunbelt states of Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina.
In Georgia, a state which Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020 by just under 12,000 votes, the former president is edging his counterpart by 49 percent to 45 percent.
In what appears to be an ominous sign for the incumbent Harris, the polls found that voters were worried about not only the individual issues of the economy, inflation and immigration, but the future of the country as a whole.
Taken together, only 27 percent of those polled in these three states said that the U.S. was “on the right track,” with 63 percent believing that the country is “headed in the wrong direction.”