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with just a few days left until the
election more and more voters are making
their final decisions according to
Emerson College polling the candidates
are neck and neck each polling at 49%
nationally but the election will likely
come down to just a handful of Swing
States joining us now to break down the
latest numbers senior director of
Emerson College polling Matt taglia Matt
thanks for joining us starting off with
your pulling out of the swing state of
Michigan right now you have Trump
leading Harris by 1 point 49% to 48%
compare that to just a few weeks ago
when Harris held a two-point lead where
is Trump picking up that
support yeah so like you said uh we see
Trump at 49% Harris at 48% we don't
really see that onepoint lead changing
much after we push undecided voters to
choose one of the candidates um so we're
seeing an independent split here
uh among these independent voters Trump
slightly winning these voters 47 to 45
that's not much but change since
September uh when it was very evenly
split about 45 to 45 so what I think
we're seeing is some small slippage
overall among uh various demographics uh
for Harris and uh you know we look at
Hispanic voters there is U you know
certainly a bit of slippage there
they're nearly tied they won't make up a
uh sizable portion of the electorate
here but that is still one group that
she's going to depend on when margins
are so tight uh the good news I think
for her is that the early vote is very
good in her favor 60% versus 40%
according to our data uh will that be
enough an election day we just don't
know want to ask you about the senate
race in Michigan Democrat Alysa slock
and leads Republican Mike Rogers by two
points in your in your poll uh what
issues are driving voters to do some
split ticket there that's not something
you usually see when it comes to
Statewide races and presidential
races yeah we really see slotkin
overperforming compared to Harris here
uh 48% versus Rogers 46% and it might be
better to phrase that as uh Rogers is
really underperforming Trump uh we also
see a higher share of undecided voters
here 6% that's much higher than in the
presidential race and we see independent
are breaking for slotkin by 10 points
that's pretty sizable and that is uh
very different from the uh presidential
race in Michigan where Independents are
split and when we look at these voters
we see that the economy is of course a
top issue 48% among Independents uh
threats to democracy though comes in at
second place with 12% and immigration
there with 10% so you can kind of see
how uh some of the these independent
voters May uh prefer a trump approach uh
to some of these issues the economy and
immigration those being winning issues
for uh Donald Trump cross the swing
States uh so you know Rogers uh is
possibly just not able to speak to these
voters and these issues that these
voters care about in the same way that
Trump is Shifting Gears to a couple
tight Congressional races in New York in
the 17th District Democrat mere Jones is
looking to unseat Republican uh Mike
Lawler your polling shows Lawler is
leading right now 49% to 44% but 7% say
they're still undecided do we have any
indication about how those undecided
voters are
leaning we can take some cues from this
poll uh we see Lawler at 49% Jones at 44
and that 7% undecided now that is uh for
the Democrat Jones uh they're lagging
Harris who's able to get 50% in the
district um and frankly Lawler is the
better known of the two and better liked
Jones has an issue here
35% have a very unfavorable rating of
them that's a tough uh pill to swallow
if you're Jones and that's going to be
uh potentially
insurmountable in the electorate uh come
election day in neighboring 18th
District also in New York a similar
story but in the other direction
incumbent Pat Ryan incumbent Democrat
Pat Ryan is leading Republican
Challenger Allison Esposito by nearly 10
points but again 7% say they're
undecided this is a seat that
Republicans were looking to pick up is
that still
possible yeah and again I think it's uh
most helpful to look at some of these
favorability ratings when we look at
these undecided voters uh because you
know there are 7% That's High compared
to the presidential election but in
reality that's not a whole lot of folks
in this District that are undecided um
but we can see that Esposito has a name
ID problem
177% can't uh rate them one way or
another that's a re that's really tough
we also see Ryan with
51% I think that that's a pretty
important number just winning a majority
in the district that's just going to be
really really hard to overcome when
there's such a gap of nine points so no
I I think uh Republicans winning the
seat that's going to be uh really tough
despite the fact that Trump leads by one
point in the presidential race in this
District all right that's all I got Matt
taglia Emerson College polling thanks so
much for coming
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swing States Nebraska and its five
electoral votes could hold more
influence than in past elections news
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Electoral math in today's political
minute could the road to two 7 go
through Nebraska I'm Blake bman with
news Nation Nebraska is one of two
states in this country that divides up
some of its Electoral College votes by
congressional district and this year
many eyes are on Nebraska's second
district that's Omaha and the
surrounding suburbs which has one
electoral vote now the district is
represented currently by a republican
who was up for reelection this year vice
president Harris is up by 12 points in
that District that's according to to a
recent New York Times poll now here's
how the district could factor into the
presidential race there are several
scenarios where the presidential
election could end up in a 269 269 tie
here's one of them right here and then
we switch to the other you can see a
little bit of change in the map in any
of the scenarios one electoral vote in
the election could make the difference
between a win and a tie for either
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