{"id":12486,"date":"2024-08-31T15:27:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T15:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12486"},"modified":"2024-08-31T17:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T17:02:27","slug":"poll-trump-inches-ahead-hovde-surges-forward-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12486","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Trump Inches Ahead; Hovde Surges Forward in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/poll-trump-inches-ahead-hovde-surges-forward-in-wisconsin\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/poll-trump-inches-ahead-hovde-surges-forward-in-wisconsin\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MixCollage-26-Jul-2024-10-57-AM-9402.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"trump vs harris\" title=\"No Tax on Tips\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 A new Emerson College <a href=\"https:\/\/emersoncollegepolling.com\/august-2024-swing-state-polls-toss-up-presidential-election-in-swing-states\/\">poll<\/a> of likely voters reveals some changes in Midwest swing states.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump has a slim lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin, 49% to 48%, while Harris slightly widened her lead over Trump in Michigan at 50% to 47%.<\/p>\n<p>Independent voters are largely veering towards Harris, with 46% of Michigan Independents choosing Harris, versus 43% for Trump. In Wisconsin, the divide is starker, with 52% choosing Harris and 43% Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Defying previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_79f4bd86-54ee-11ef-8840-e3cc45e63269.html\">trends<\/a>, Republican U.S. Senate candidate for Wisconsin Eric Hovde has improved to 48%, only 1 percentage point behind incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin, his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had huge movement in the last 30 days,\u201d Hovde said in a video on X following the poll\u2019s release. \u201cWisconsin is the number one battleground. Whoever wins Wisconsin will control the White House, and if I win, we\u2019ll not only take control of the U.S. Senate for the next two years, but potentially for the next four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Support for the U.S. Senate candidates in Michigan remains relatively stable, with Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin still leading Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers 47% to 41%.<\/p>\n<p>While the economy remains all respondents\u2019 top concern in both states, the issue of immigration has fallen in importance, replaced by \u201cthreats to democracy\u201d and housing affordability.<\/p>\n<p>Results also showed voters under 30 overwhelmingly favor the Democratic presidential candidate, with Harris pulling 62% of support in Michigan and 54% in Wisconsin, compared to Trump\u2019s 32% and 41%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, conducted August 25-28, included 800 Michigan voters with a +\/-3.4% margin of error, and 850 Wisconsin voters with a +\/-3.3% margin of error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/poll-trump-inches-ahead-hovde-surges-forward-in-wisconsin\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 A new Emerson College poll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":11828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12488,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions\/12488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}