Shock Poll Has Harris Beating Trump in Deep Red State
Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has leapfrogged rival Donald Trump in the Hawkeye State amid fierce campaigning in a neck-and-neck showdown.

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Kamala Harris has scored a sensational last-minute polling update over Donald Trump in Iowa, which is not a battleground state, just three days before Tuesday’s historic presidential election.
The Democratic nominee has jumped ahead of her erratic Republican rival with voters—despite earlier signs her campaign in the all-important Hawkeye State had fizzled, and that Trump was a shoo-in.
A nationally respected poll by The Des Moines Register/Mediacom has the vice president currently leading former President Trump by 47% to 44%.
It follows a previous Iowa poll in September that gave Trump an impressive 4-point lead over Harris. Incredibly, a poll in June gave him an 18-point lead over then rival Joe Biden.
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“It’s hard for anybody to say they saw this coming,” the Register quotes pollster J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co. “She has clearly leaped into a leading position.”
Meanwhile, whale decapitator Robert F. Kennedy Jr. —who shuttered his independent presidential campaign to support previous rival Trump but remains on the Iowa ballot—scored 3% of the vote, down from 6% in September and 9% in June. The latest poll was carried out among 808 likely Iowa voters—including those who said they had already voted and and those who confirmed they would definitely be casting a vote. It was conducted by Selzer & Co. from Oct. 28-31. The margin of error is reportedly plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
BREAKING: Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump in Iowa
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 3, 2024
The Des Moines Register Poll has Harris at 47% and Donald Trump at 44%.
The difference between them is within the margin of error. pic.twitter.com/ZjVALVZ6V5
Less than 1% of those polled said they would vote for Libertarian presidential candidate Chase Oliver.
A victory for Harris in Iowa would be huge turnaround as the state backed Trump in 2016 by a nine point margin and eight in 2020.
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It has also seen little investment by either side in advertising or turnout while they focus their firepower on what are seen as the swing states: Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada and the biggest of them all, Pennsylvania.
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