United States elections 2024: Donald Trump Wins
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Trump narrowly leads Harris in Michigan: Poll
BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 08/15/24 11:57 AM ETFormer President Trump is narrowly leading Vice President Kamala Harris in the critical swing state of Michigan, according to an AARP survey released Thursday.
Trump leads Harris with 45 percent support to her 43 percent among likely voters in the battleground state, while 8 percent said they would support a third-party candidate.
However, in a head-to-head match-up, the findings show Trump and Harris tied at 48 percent.
The poll was commissioned by the AARP and was jointly conducted by the Republican polling firm Fabrizio Ward and the Democratic polling firm Impact Research.
The poll also found that among voters 50 years and older, Trump led Harris by 2 points head-to-head and with a third party candidate on the ballot.
The findings also suggest Democrats are running strong down the ballot in Michigan’s Senate race. Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) leads her GOP opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, 47 percent to 44 percent among all likely voters, with 8 percent saying they are undecided. But among voters older than 50, the two Senate contenders are tied at 48 percent, again with 8 percent saying they are undecided.
The AARP poll out of Michigan comes as other recent surveys indicate Harris is closing the gap in Michigan and Rust Belt states that are seen as key to winning in November. A New York Times/Siena College poll released last week shows Harris leading Trump 50 percent to 46 percent in each of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
The Hill’s Decision Desk polling average shows Harris ahead of Trump by 2 points in Michigan, 3.5 points in Wisconsin, and 0.6 percent in Pennsylvania.
The AARP commissioned survey was conducted Aug. 7-11 among 1,382 likely voters.
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Tim Walz doubled down on allowing COVID patients into nursing homes despite 80% death stat
Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz allowed nursing homes to accept COVID patients during the height of the pandemic despite the lethality of the disease for seniors.
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Tim Walz doubled down on allowing COVID patients into nursing homes despite 80% death stat
'This was not a mistake,' Walz said about the nursing home policy
By Hannah Grossman Fox NewsPublished August 16, 2024 5:00am EDT
Gov. Tim Walz ‘ruined businesses and families’: Joe Teirab
Joe Teirab, a former federal prosecutor and GOP nominee for Congress, joins 'Fox News @ Night' to discuss Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s record.Under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz's watch during the COVID-19 pandemic, Minnesota experienced a devastating impact among its most vulnerable, as 80% of COVID-related deaths in the state occurred among residents of long-term care facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living centers.
Critics have taken aim at a policy, also practiced in other states during the pandemic, to allow patients with COVID into nursing homes after they were discharged from hospitals.
The policy in place is no longer available on the public-facing Minnesota government website and had to be acquired by the Wayback Machine.
"Patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 who still require transmission-based precautions for COVID-19 can be transferred to congregate living facilities," the policy, acquired by the Wayback Machine, said.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a campaign rally with Vice President Kamala Harris. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
"It is the recommendation of MDH that patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 can be discharged when clinically indicated and neither discontinuation of transmission-based precautions nor the establishment of two negative COVID-19 tests is required prior to hospital discharge," it continued.
At one point, around May 2020, over 80% of the state's COVID-19 deaths were among residents of long-term care facilities.
Despite this data, Walz doubled down on the policy after the fact.
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"This was what everyone was doing. This was not a mistake. It wasn't like no one thought about this. There was complexity in how you deal with this," the Democratic governor said in May 2020 while the devastation was ongoing.
According to a report from the Star Tribune, nursing homes perceived they were deprioritized in terms of being provided with personal protective equipment (PPE), which was critical to protecting both staff and patients from getting infected.
Nursing homes believed they were deprioritized during the COVID pandemic, leading to difficulty controlling the spread of infections. (iStock)
The state's Department of Health "informed providers in April that its emergency stockpile of N95 masks was reserved for ‘hospital settings only’ and that they should wait until their supplies had dwindled to ‘zero to three days’ before requesting more gear," the report said.
"As an alternative, the state encouraged nursing homes to consider using nonmedical cloth masks and to ‘connect with local communities for donations,’' it continued.
The issue was widespread during the early stages of the COVID pandemic.
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"Nursing home residents aren’t getting half of our resources or half of our attention, yet they account for roughly half the deaths," David Grabowski, a health care policy professor at Harvard Medical School, told The Atlantic in April 2020. "We don’t value their lives as much as other people’s."
Many families complained to local media that they weren't notified about COVID-positive cases in nursing homes and never got to say their goodbyes. Walz's administration discouraged families from taking their loved ones out of nursing homes and bringing them home for visits.
"MDH strongly recommends against families bringing residents of long-term care facilities to their homes during this time. This recommendation applies whether residents have previously been diagnosed with COVID-19 or have recently tested negative for COVID-19," Minnesota's Department of Health's executive order 20-99 said.
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Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris by just one point with men: poll
The poll may come as a surprise to the Trump campaign, which has in general been way ahead of Harris among men.
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Donald Trump Leading Kamala Harris by Just One Point With Men: Poll
Published Aug 16, 2024 at 6:01 AM EDTUpdated Aug 16, 2024 at 9:07 AM EDT00:50
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Donald Trump is leading Kamala Harris by just one point among men, according to a new poll.
The survey, conducted by Outward Intelligence between August 11 and 15, shows that 46 percent of men back Trump compared to Harris' 45 percent.
Among women, Harris was 13 points ahead, on 53 percent to Trump's 40 percent.
The poll surveyed 1,858 likely voters and had a margin of error of +/- 2.3 percent.
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The figures may come as a surprise to the Trump campaign, which has in general been way ahead of Harris among men.
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For example, the latest New York Times and Siena College poll, conducted between August 5 and 9 among 1,973 likely voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, showed Trump with a 14 point lead over Harris among men, on 52 percent to her 39 percent.
Among women, Harris had a 21 point lead, with 56 percent to Trump's 35 percent.
Polls have also shown Trump with a lead among men on a national level, including the latest nationwide New York Times and Siena College poll, conducted between July 22 and 24, which showed Trump with a 17-point lead among men, with 56 percent to his opponent's 39 percent.
Among women, Harris lead by 14 points, with 55 percent to Trump's 41 percent. The poll surveyed 1,142 likely voters and had a margin of error of +/- 3.4 percentage points
However, other recent polls have shown Harris eating into Trump's lead among men. The latest ActiVote poll, conducted between August 7 and 14, showed Trump with a 10 point lead among men, while Harris had a 13 point lead among women.
The latest polls by The Economist and YouGov and the Pew Research Center, conducted between August 5 and 13, showed Trump with an even smaller lead of just 5 points among men, while Harris had a lead of between 8 and 9 points among women.
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However, the 2020 election saw the Democrats make gains among men who were evenly divided among Trump and Biden, according to Pew. Meanwhile, Trump won a slightly larger share of women's votes, winning 44 percent.
Experts have predicted that the Democrats could make gains among men again this year, especially now that Minnesota Governor, a former football coach who served in the military, is on the ticket.
Walz "has many of the credentials of a traditional man," and this will help the Democrats reach out to white men, Jackson Katz, Ph.D., an author and expert on gender violence prevention education, told Newsweek, adding that Walz "punctures" the idea for Republicans that "real men" vote GOP.
But, even before Walz was on the ticket, Harris was getting support from men, with more than 180,000 people showing up to a "White Dudes for Harris" Zoom call in July. The group has raised $4million for Harris' campaign, according to organizers.
Group organizer Mark Greene, an author who writes about masculinity, said in the event description that the group aims to support Harris' bid, countering the Republican Party, which he said represents a culture that "has positioned white men at the top of a bullying and rigid dominance-based culture of masculinity."
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Trump holds razor-thin lead over Harris in new Pennsylvania poll
by Jared Gans - 08/16/24 1:13 PM ETSharePost
Vice President Harris, left, on Aug. 7, 2024, and Republican presidential candidate former President Trump on July 31, 2024.
Former President Trump holds a razor-thin lead over Vice President Harris in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to a new Emerson College Polling/RealClearPennsylvania survey.
The poll released Friday showed Trump leading Harris among likely voters by 1 point, 49 percent to 48 percent, in a head-to-head match-up. The lead ticked up to 2 points, 51 percent to 49 percent, when undecided voters were pressed to choose.
Both totals were within the margin of error, meaning the candidates are statistically tied.
When third-party candidates were included, Trump and Harris were even at 47 percent each, while independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received 3 percent. Two percent were undecided, and no other third-party candidate, like Independent Cornel West, received more than 0.3 percent.
The results underscore just how close the battle for the Keystone State’s 19 electoral votes is: The state flipped red in 2016 to help Trump clinch the presidency before flipping back and doing the same for President Biden in 2020.
The poll found both candidates received roughly the same amount of support from members of their own party, with about 91 percent of registered Republicans and Democrats saying they support their respective party’s candidate.
Trump has a slight lead among independents, up by 3 points, 48 percent to 45 percent, in the two-person race. He also has a large advantage among voters aged 50 to 69, 57 percent to 40 percent, and a narrow lead among voters 70 and older, 52 percent to 47 percent.
Harris’s strengths come from support among young voters, up 61 percent to 36 percent among those under 40, and with union members she leads 57 percent to 42 percent.
The candidates are tied among voters aged 40 to 49, with 49 percent each.
The results follow the release of a Quinnipiac University poll this week that had Harris leading Trump by 3 points in a two-person race and with third party candidates. Strong support among women helped boost her to the lead.
Although the Emerson poll has Harris just behind Trump, it is still an improvement for her compared to its poll last month that had Trump leading by 6 points, 51 percent to 45 percent, among very likely voters.
The poll was conducted among 1,000 likely voters Aug. 13-14. The margin of error was 3 percentage points.
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