Former President Trump topped Vice President Harris by 6 points in the likely battleground of Arizona, according to a new poll released on Friday.
The new USA TODAY/Suffolk University survey found Trump leads the vice president, 48 percent to 42 percent, in the Grand Canyon State. Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party nominee Chase Oliver got 1 percent each. Around 5 percent were undecided.
“Trump’s strength is driven by the two top issues in Arizona — the economy and immigration,” said David Paleologos, the director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. “Trump is winning each issue by overwhelming margins.”
Around 47 percent of Latino voters in Arizona said they back the vice president while 35 percent said they side with Trump. Arizona has around 1.3 million Latino-eligible voters, according to Pew Research Center.
The top two issues among the survey respondents were the economy, at 27 percent, and immigration, at 21 percent, and both topics are seen as the key issues in the 2024 presidential election. Over half of the poll’s respondents, 52 percent, said they were worse than they were four years ago.
The vice president garnered a 3-point edge in Arizona, according to a recent Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll. But, the Democratic nominee trailed the ex-president in Arizona by three points in the recently released poll from Fox News.
Trump has a 0.8 percent lead, 48.5 percent to Harris’s 47.7 percent, in Arizona according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s latest aggregate of polls.
The ex-president amassed a 4-point lead in Maricopa County, a bellwether county, getting 47 percent to the vice president’s 43 percent. Around 8 percent of voters were undecided, according to the survey.
The statewide poll was conducted Sept. 21-24 among 500 likely voters. It has a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points. The survey focused on Maricopa County was done over the same time period among an additional 300 likely voters, with a margin of error of 5.65 percentage points.
