Reuters reported that after Tuesday night's debate, several undecided voters said they were leaning toward voting for President Donald Trump.
Reuters Interviewed Of the 10 undecided voters after Tuesday's debate, six claimed they were leaning toward or voting for Trump, while three said they would support Vice President Kamala Harris. Those who switched to Trump cited the state of the economy as the reason for their decision, but four of the six said Harris' performance in the debate did not indicate she has different policies than President Joe Biden.
“The entire debate felt to me not so much like Kamala Harris was telling me why she is the right candidate, but why you shouldn't vote for Donald Trump,” Robert Wheeler, a Nevada security executive, told Reuters.
“I still don't know what she's in for,” Florida entrepreneur Mark Kadish told Reuters. “Her plan had no real substance.” (Related story: 'Potential for abuse': Kamala's debate preparations with Google's lead lawyer raise alarm bells for government watchdog)
63% of voters who watched the debate said Harris won it. According to A CNN poll of 605 likely voters praised Harris for her performance after the debate, and media experts also praised her remarks.
But many more undecided voters are not impressed with Harris' answers about her plans for the job, with some claiming they are considering voting for Trump. According to To the New York Times.
“His arguments were a little more persuasive than hers,” Keira Miller, a Milwaukee resident and former Democratic voter, told The New York Times. “I seem to rely more on Trump's facts than on her vision.”
“When Trump was president, I'm not going to lie, my life was a lot better than it is now,” she said. “I've never been more depressed than I have been in the last four years. It's been a really tough time for me.”
TOPSHOT – US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris listens to former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during the presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 10, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Samira Ali, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who has not yet decided who she will vote for, told the outlet that Harris “still has to impress her.”
Harris currently leads by 1.1 percentage points in the polls with 48.4% approval rating to Trump's 47.3%. According to RealClear Polling averages include surveys from Aug. 22 to Sept. 6.
“Kamala Harris failed to answer the most important question facing undecided voters in this election: Would it have been better under Vice President Kamala or under President Trump?” Trump campaign national spokesperson Caroline Leavitt told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “She refused to answer that question because the answer is Trump. If Americans want lower taxes and inflation, secure borders and a peaceful world, there is only one choice, and it's not dangerously liberal Kamala Harris.”
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to DCNF's request for comment.
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