Donald Trump has taken a shock lead over Kamala Harris in a poll released just 12 days before the election.
Harris still holds the slimmest of leads in the polling averages, with Real Clear Polling showing her up by just 0.2% and FiveThirtyEight by just 1.8%.
Now, a Wall Street Journal poll shows Trump leading Harris by 47% to 45%, a complete reversal from Harris’ two-point lead in their previous survey from August.
Another three percent of voters remain undecided, while two percent hold out for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long since dropped out of the race to endorse Trump.
Harris has seen her favorability ratings collapse since the last poll. She had an equal number of people viewing her favorably and unfavorably in August but now the unfavorable views dominate the positive ones, 53% to 45%.
Only 42% approve of Harris’ job as vice president, with 54% disapproving, the worst performance in WSJ’s three surveys since she began running.
Trump, on the other hand, has completely reversed his perception, with 52% approving and 48% disapproving of his presidency.
More voters view Trump’s economic plans positively than negatively, while the opposite is true of Harris.
Trump is seen as the more trusted candidate on issues like immigration, the economy, inflation and Israel’s war against Hamas.
Harris is only favored on abortion and protecting social security and medicare.
Perhaps the only positives for the vice president were that more voters – 49%-39% – saw Trump as ‘too extreme’ and more – 48%-43% – saw Trump as a danger to the country.
It comes after a day where the candidates started to make their closing arguments to the nation.
Harris called Trump a ‘fascist’ and dodged questions on the effectiveness of a border wall during a high stakes CNN town hall Wednesday.
Her performance was almost immediately panned by Democratic strategist David Axelrod who said on CNN afterward that she went ‘word salad city’ on several answers.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper had Harris address the news of the day – that Trump’s former Chief of Staff John Kelly said the GOP nominee fit the bill of a fascist, asking the Democratic nominee if she agreed with that too.
‘Yes, I do,’ she answered. ‘Yes, I do. And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted.’
She was less direct when Cooper asked Harris if she wanted to ‘build some wall,’ as she spoke in support of a bipartisan immigration bill that included wall funding.
As the results were released, Trump – who referred to Kelly as a ‘degenerate’ and a ‘lowlife’ earlier that night – was making the case to his supporters in Duluth, Georgia.
Trump campaigned in the Bible Belt and got asked about his faith at a town hall in Georgia.
‘How do you lean into your faith and your family to deal with this? Because I don’t think anybody else could, could handle it the way you have for the past decade,’ Georgia Lieutenant Gov. Burt Jones asked Trump, after saying he has been ‘vilified’ in the media.
‘When you have faith, when you believe in God, it’s it’s a big advantage over people that don’t have that,’ said Trump, who has been speaking more about religion since surviving an assassination attempt.
Then he quickly pivoted to his favorite targets.
‘These scoundrels came after me at a level that it’s called election interference. It’s called the weaponization of the FBI, the DOJ, they were all coming, and we’re going to get things turned around in this country, because it’s so bad, they don’t do that, except in third world countries,’ Trump said.
‘And think of the scoundrels that are in office right now. It didn’t happen to them.’
Trump brought out Tucker Carlson onstage at an event Wednesday night, as the former Fox News anchor compared the ex-president to a ‘pissed dad.’
The crowd then subsequently broke out in a ‘Daddy’s home’ chant when the president took the stage.
Carlson told a wild crowd in Georgia on Wednesday night that Donald Trump’s return to the White House would be like a dad returning home to dish out a ‘vigorous spanking’.
‘There has to be a point at which Dad comes home. Yeah, that’s right. Dad comes home. And he’s pissed. Dad is pissed,’ Carlson, the former Fox News host, said at a Turning Point USA event that Trump also addressed.
Harris received more bad news Wednesday, when it was revealed billionaire Warren Buffett has made it known that he won’t be endorsing her or Trump for president in 2024.
The 94-year-old CEO of Berkshire Hathaway – who is worth an estimated $146.3 billion – has recently backed Democratic candidates.
But a memo from the ‘Sage of Omaha’s’ firm released Wednesday said he wouldn’t be taking a stance in the election and any other suggestion would be ‘fraudulent’.