Voters in key battleground states give Trump an edge over Harris on this top tier issue: poll

A caller canvass released this week shows former President Trump with a beardown pb implicit Vice President Kamala Harris connected the taxable of migration – adjacent aft Harris has sought to contiguous herself arsenic the champion campaigner to unafraid the confederate border.

The Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday recovered Harris starring Trump successful Pennsylvania, portion Trump is up successful Michigan and Wisconsin. The 3 Rust Belt states are being intimately watched arsenic they could find which campaigner is the adjacent president.

But connected the question of who is champion to grip immigration, Trump has the borderline successful each 3 states. He carries a four-point pb successful Pennsylvania (50-46), a nine-point pb successful Michigan (53-44) and an eight-point pb successful Wisconsin (52-44).

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Trump was besides preferred successful each states connected the system and handling the struggle successful the Middle East, portion Harris was preferred connected termination and preserving democracy.

Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, on with Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada, had razor-thin margins that decided President Biden's 2020 White House triumph implicit Trump. And the 7 states are apt to find if Trump oregon Harris wins the 2024 statesmanlike election.

Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin are besides the 3 Rust Belt states that marque up the Democrats' alleged "Blue Wall."

The enactment reliably won each 3 states for a quarter-century earlier Trump narrowly captured them successful the 2016 predetermination to triumph the White House.

A caller Marquette Law School canvass recovered that 49% favour Trump portion conscionable 37% favour Harris connected immigration, with 8% saying they’d beryllium astir the same, and 6% saying neither are bully connected the issue.

Harris was tasked with tackling root causes of migration to the confederate borderline successful aboriginal 2021 arsenic borderline numbers began to surge. She was yet dubbed the "border czar" by media outlets and critics – though the White House rejected that title.

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Republicans person accused her of playing a cardinal relation successful the borderline situation and the policies they judge fueled it, including the rolling backmost of Trump-era policies. Trump has promised to motorboat a monolithic deportation cognition if elected, restart borderline partition operation and extremity Biden-era parole policies.

Critics person besides highlighted her much left-wing policies arsenic a legislator and statesmanlike campaigner successful 2019 – including her positions connected migration backing and the detention of amerciable immigrants.

Harris’ campaign says her views person changed since 2019 and person been shaped by her engagement successful the administration. This year, her run has highlighted her past arsenic a authoritative and noted her backing of a bipartisan Senate measure to summation backing to the border.

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Her run has noted a caller crisp driblet successful borderline encounters since President Biden signed a statesmanlike proclamation successful June limiting asylum entries. She has accused Trump of scuppering the borderline measure for governmental purposes and of "playing governmental games."

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Fox News' Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.