Elections in USA: Trump Ahead in Arizona, Harris Ahead in Georgia
British Prime Minister Starmer has been received by Trump. Election officials in North Carolina, a “key state,” have “slashed” the rolls of eligible voters by 747,000 people
The US presidential election, which will be held on November 5, is just over a month away. And it’s always a struggle between the two candidates. Social polls show that the outcome of the vote will be decided at the polls, not before. In Arizona, a Fox News Channel poll attributed a 3% lead to Republican nominee Donald Trump managing to win voter support, compared to results recorded the previous month, when Democrat Kamala Harris was ahead by 1% in that state, according to the same channel’s poll.
According to Fox News, Vice President Harris “lost 11% support among Hispanic voters but still maintains a slight lead over Trump among voters under 30.”
Another poll, again conducted by Fox News in the key swing state of Georgia, gave Harris a slight lead over Trump: 51% of Georgia voters now want to vote for the Democratic nominee, while 48% of voters support Trump, a figure that goes against the trend of major polling averages, which instead gives Trump a 0.4 percent advantage in Georgia.
According to US newspapers, “in the US South, Harris is managing to build consensus, especially on her stance on abortion, while Trump is clearly the favored candidate on handling the economy and immigration.”
In this situation, European leaders attending the UN General Assembly wanted to meet with both Harris and Trump. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was hosted in New York by the Republican Party’s candidate for President of the United States in what Starmer himself described as a meeting to help build a “personal relationship” ahead of the election.
Before the meeting, Trump praised Starmer’s political and electoral success: “He worked very well, now he’s popular,” the former US president told reporters. For his part, Starmer said he “largely believes in personal relationships” in the international arena.
Meanwhile, in North Carolina, one of the so-called “seven key states” on which the outcome of the US presidential election may depend, the state’s election commission announced the “removal” of as many as 747,000 people from the list of those eligible to vote in the state. According to the official press release, “the names were removed as part of voter verifications conducted over the past 20 months”: most of the names removed from the rolls belong to people who have moved to another US state or who did not vote in the last two general elections and therefore became inactive voters.
The checks were initiated after a court case against the state initiated by the Republican Party, which accused North Carolina of “failing to act on complaints about the massive presence of incorrect names on voter rolls.” And this despite the fact that North Carolina has always supported Republican candidates for the White House, with the exception of 2008, when the state’s voters overwhelmingly chose Barack Obama.
