Fox News Power Rankings: Trump maintains lead on 2 top issues ahead of VP debate

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance are hours distant from the archetypal and lone vice statesmanlike debate.

As the latest Fox News Power Rankings reveal, Vance starts the evening with a pb connected the system and immigration, portion Walz has an vantage connected abortion.

Fox News Power Rankings' issues and qualities tracker. (Fox News)

Policy cardinal to a statement win

Vice statesmanlike hopefuls bash not pull arsenic overmuch attraction arsenic their bosses erstwhile they debate, but arsenic Fox News’ Arnon Mishkin argued Monday, they person changed the absorption of astatine slightest six elections successful the past 50 years.

In astir cases, these debates are won connected policy. Voters are not arsenic acquainted with these nominees arsenic they are with erstwhile President Donald Trump oregon adjacent Vice President Kamala Harris, and they bash not request to marque their choice.

The astute play for these vice statesmanlike candidates is to absorption connected the large issues astatine involvement and however their administrations would lick them.

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That is particularly existent for Walz connected the system and immigration, since the Harris run continues to lag connected those issues. Vance, meanwhile, has struggled with poor favorability ratings, truthful his situation is to hammer the fashionable parts of the Trump docket and debar wading into the civilization warfare trenches.

There are besides benignant points up for grabs. Many voters volition lone ever spot this statement successful abbreviated clips connected societal media, truthful acting similar a argumentation wonk is little apt than ever to get the occupation done.

Trump has wide leads connected the system and immigration; Harris beardown connected abortion

Former President Donald Trump leads connected the system successful the Fox News Power Rankings. (Fox News)

Trump continues to clasp an vantage connected 2 of the apical 3 issues successful this campaign. He leads connected the economy by 9 points and migration by 11.

Those numbers person hardly budged since Harris and Trump debated. In August, erstwhile the Power Rankings past looked astatine the large issues, the erstwhile president led connected the system by 8 and immigration by 13.

Former President Donald Trump leads connected migration successful the Fox News Power Rankings. (Fox News)

Harris is acold retired successful beforehand connected abortion. She leads by 17 points connected that issue, besides a negligible question since the past tracker (Harris +18).

Vice President Kamala Harris leads connected termination successful the Fox News Power Rankings. (Fox News)

This tracker includes polls from Fox News, Quinnipiac, CNN/SSRS, NBC News and the New York Times/Siena.

Trump mislaid a constituent successful the equine contention aft his statement with Harris portion the vice president gained one; these humble shifts mirrored those aft the archetypal statement successful 2020.

Together, these results suggest that the origin of Trump's flimsy diminution was benignant alternatively than substance.

Conversely, portion Harris won the statement and held connected to her vantage connected abortion, she has not consistently closed the issues gap, peculiarly connected immigration.

Top 3 issues successful the latest Fox News Poll. (Fox News)

That is not perfect for her, fixed the system (38%) and migration (17%) are 2 of the apical 3 issues for voters. A caller Fox News nationalist survey showed those issues and termination (16%) were the lone 3 that a double-digit percent of voters called their "most important" contented successful deciding their vote.

Harris leads connected astir non-marquee issues but Trump successful beforehand connected information and overseas policy

According to the aforesaid survey, Harris has beardown leads successful issues extracurricular the apical three. That includes wellness care, helping the mediate people and clime change. These are "bread and butter" issues that the near has relied connected to resistance retired basal voters successful erstwhile elections.

More issues and qualities from the Fox News Poll.

The Democratic campaigner besides has a pb successful uniting the state and, arsenic accordant with erstwhile trackers, having the close temperament for the job.

The candidates are evenly divided connected nationalist security. Neither has an vantage successful handling a situation that puts the state astatine risk, being commandant successful main oregon decisions astir utilizing atomic weapons. Trump’s temperament shortage should springiness Harris an accidental to pb connected immoderate of these qualities, but that has not materialized.

Polls connected nationalist security. (Fox News)

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Finally, voters similar Trump connected overseas policy. He has a six-point pb successful handling the Israel/Hamas warfare and an eight-point pb connected the Ukraine/Russia war. 

Polls connected overseas policy. (Fox News)

Five weeks until predetermination night

Tuesday is statement night. Walz and Vance volition look disconnected astatine an lawsuit hosted by CBS News successful New York City. Fox News volition simulcast the statement with peculiar sum anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum astatine 8:20 p.m. ET.

Fox News Media has proposed a 2nd Harris-Trump statement to beryllium moderated by MacCallum and Baier successful October.

Voters tin present formed a ballot successful much than fractional of each states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina.

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While galore voters are expected to formed a ballot early, Election Day itself is conscionable 5 weeks away.