Poll: Voters Trust Trump Over Harris on Guns

Extra American voters belief Donald Trump to do a greater job dealing with gun points than Kamala Harris.

That’s in accordance with the most recent Fox Information ballot launched Wednesday. It discovered the previous President narrowly profitable the belief of registered voters on gun coverage over his opponent by a slim margin, with 50 p.c favoring Trump and 47 p.c favoring Harris. The discovering represents a one-point bump on the difficulty in Trump’s favor since Fox final polled the query in July when voters gave him a two-point belief benefit on weapons head-to-head with present President Joe Biden. The survey discovered that Trump led Harris by one proportion level general.

The ballot findings counsel gun politics might be a relative power for the previous President as he heads right into a neck-and-neck race for the White Home this November towards an ascendant challenger, Kamala Harris. That benefit, nevertheless, has not been mirrored in how the 2 candidates have campaigned on the difficulty to this point.

Apart from briefly remarking at a press convention final week that the try on his life hadn’t modified his place towards banning AR-15s, Trump has largely prevented the subject of weapons altogether all through his marketing campaign. The 2024 GOP Platform doc eliminated the celebration’s earlier Second Modification coverage commitments, and he didn’t broach the subject in any respect throughout his record-long nomination acceptance speech on the RNC final month. Harris, in the meantime, has performed up her gun management priorities at practically each marketing campaign occasion she’s held since changing President Biden atop the Democratic ticket—although she has notably tried to distance herself from her earlier help for pushing a compulsory buyback of AR-15s. She additionally chosen a working mate who has considerably shifted to the left on the difficulty over the course of his political profession.

The ballot discovered a sizeable gender hole in belief on weapons among the many two candidates. Whereas Trump holds a 15-point belief benefit amongst males, ladies want Harris 52 p.c to 43 p.c. Black voters additionally overwhelmingly belief Harris extra on the difficulty (68 p.c to 29 p.c), whereas White (52 p.c to 44 p.c) and Hispanic voters (50 p.c to 46 p.c) lean towards Trump.

The oldest voters surveyed, aged 65 and up, broke for Harris by 5 proportion factors, whereas every bloc underneath the age of 45 leaned towards Trump on weapons. Notably, six p.c of Harris supporters and 4 p.c of Trump supporters mentioned they trusted the opposite candidate extra on the difficulty.

Whereas voters, by and enormous, give Trump the benefit on gun coverage, the ballot discovered the difficulty is just not on the prime of thoughts for many of them heading into November. Simply three p.c mentioned weapons could be crucial concern in deciding their vote for President, down from eleven p.c when the survey requested the query precisely a 12 months prior. Weapons tied with crime because the least prioritized concern polled. The economic system (38 p.c), immigration (14 p.c), and abortion (14 p.c) led the pack.

Non-white males (seven p.c), voters youthful than 35 (six p.c), and voters who strongly approve of President Biden (5 p.c) have been the most probably to checklist weapons as their most essential deciding concern.

Along with weapons, registered voters give Trump the nod over his opponent on the problems of border safety (58 p.c to 39 p.c), immigration (56 p.c to 42 p.c), international coverage (52 p.c to 45 p.c), the economic system (52 p.c to 46 p.c), and crime (51 p.c to 46 p.c). In the meantime, they belief Harris to do a greater job than Trump on local weather change (57 p.c to 39 p.c), abortion (56 p.c to 40 p.c), well being care (54 p.c to 44 p.c), uniting the nation (50 p.c to 45 p.c), and Supreme Court docket nominations (50 p.c to 47 p.c).

Fox Information carried out the ballot between August ninth and twelfth. The corporate used a mixture of Democratic pollster Beacon Analysis and Republican pollster Shaw & Firm Analysis to achieve out to voters. The ballot sampled 1,105 registered voters nationwide with a margin of error of ± three proportion factors.