Trump has 9-point lead on most important issue to voters: poll

New polling shows erstwhile President Trump has a 9-point pb implicit Vice President Kamala Harris erstwhile it comes to handling the economy, the azygous astir important contented for voters going into the 2024 statesmanlike election.

The new canvass from Gallup recovered that 54% of Americans accidental Trump is much susceptible of handling the economy, compared to 45% for Harris. The system ranked arsenic the astir important contented for Republicans and for each Americans, but it didn't complaint successful the apical 5 for Democrats.

Veteran Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf says Democrats are simply assured successful Harris' program to grip the economy.

"Independents are looking for a crushed to ballot for a candidate, but they conscionable haven't recovered it yet," Sheinkopf told Fox News Digital successful an interview. "Americans absorption connected the contented astir important to them successful each election. This clip it’s their pockets. And they are inactive feeling symptom nary substance what candidates say. Time is moving retired for Harris to beryllium she tin marque it better."

He went connected to reason that the system is nary little politicized an contented arsenic migration oregon abortion, suggesting polarization has an outsized interaction connected voter's opinions connected the economy. 

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Voters polled by Gallup see erstwhile President Trump arsenic amended capable to grip the system than Vice President Kamala Harris. (Fox News )

For Republicans, the apical issues aft the system are immigration, coercion and nationalist security, transgression and taxes.

For Democrats, the apical contented is ideology successful the U.S., followed by the benignant of Supreme Court justices a campaigner would pick, abortion, wellness attraction and education.

Trump besides holds leads implicit Harris connected migration (54%-45%) and overseas affairs (52%-47%). Harris holds her ain leads connected the apical issues for Democrats, however, including wellness attraction (54%-44%), termination (56%-40%) and clime alteration (61%-35%).

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Climate alteration ranks arsenic the slightest important contented for Republicans, with conscionable 5% saying it is simply a priority. The slightest important issues for Democrats are the national fund shortage and commercialized with different nations, some tied astatine 16%.

Illegal migration ranked arsenic the second-most important contented for Republican voters. (HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Gallup conducted the canvass from Sept. 16-28, surveying 941 registered voters via telephone interviews connected cellphones and landlines. The canvass advertises a borderline of mistake of 4%.

A New York Times/Siena College survey released connected Tuesday recovered that Harris has a flimsy pb implicit Trump successful a nationalist poll. The survey recovered that Harris stands astatine 49% enactment among apt voters nationwide, with the erstwhile president and GOP nominee astatine 46%.

Kamala Harris holds a flimsy pb implicit Trump successful nationalist polls. (Screenshot/CBS News)

According to the poll, Harris stands astatine 47% and Trump astatine 44% successful a multi-candidate field. Green Party campaigner Jill Stein and Libertarian Chase Oliver each grabbed 1%, with astir 7% supporting different campaigner oregon undecided.

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Harris' borderline – which is wrong the survey's sampling mistake – is up from the New York Times/Siena canvass from past month, erstwhile the 2 large enactment nominees were deadlocked astatine 47%.

Fox News' Paul Steinhauser and Ashley Papa contributed to this report