Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* The latest national Fox News poll found Vice President Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump among likely voters, 50% to 48%. A national poll from The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Siena College found the two major-party nominees tied at 47%. (Click the links for information on the surveys’ methodologies and margins of error.)
* In Pennsylvania, the aforementioned Times/Inquirer/Siena poll found Harris ahead by four points; a Washington Post poll showed the vice president ahead by one point; a Quinnipiac poll found her ahead by six points; and a Marist poll showed the Democratic nominee tied with the former Republican in the commonwealth. (Click the links for information on the surveys’ methodologies and margins of error.)
* In Michigan, the Quinnipiac poll found Harris leading by five points, and the Marist poll showed her leading by the same margin.(Click the links for information on the surveys’ methodologies and margins of error.)
* In Wisconsin, the Quinnipiac poll found Harris ahead by one point; the Marist poll showed her leading by the same margin; and an AARP poll also found the vice president up by one point in the Badger State. (Click the links for information on the surveys’ methodologies and margins of error.)
* While Trump continues to claim that he can win New York in the fall, the latest Siena College poll found Harris leading the Republican nominee in the Empire State, 55% to 42%. (Click the link for information on the survey’s methodology and margin of error.)
* Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders sparked a controversy this week by taking aim at the fact that Harris does not have biological children of her own.
* In New Jersey, Democratic Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver cruised to a landslide victory in a congressional special election this week, and she’ll succeed the late Democratic Rep. Donald Payne Jr., who died in April.
* And in case Sen. Jon Tester weren’t already facing a tough re-election campaign, his challenge became even more difficult this week: The Montana Supreme Court ruled that Green Party candidate Robert Barb can remain on the state’s 2024 ballot, which is exactly what Republicans were hoping for.
