Trump only up 5 in Kansas

by Prairiecrat

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Monday, Oct. 28, 2024 Monday, Oct. 28, 2024 at 12:15:33pm PDT

I have been waiting all year for a poll of Kansas (not counting the RFK Jr poll early this year).

My very first post here on DK was a claim that Kansas would become a swing state.

Here we are.

Survey reveals potential tapering of Kansas gap between GOP, Democratic presidential candidates

A statewide online survey of political and public policy issues reveals nearly half of registered voters in red-state Kansas who plan to cast a ballot in the presidential election support Republican Donald Trump and more than 43% favoring Democrat Kamala Harris.

The 48.2% for Trump and 43.2% for Harris suggested further narrowing of the Kansas advantage for Trump, who has been the GOP nominee for president in 2016, 2020 and 2024. In 2016, Trump carried Kansas with 56.6% against 36% for Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump won Kansas in 2020, but the gap closed modestly with Trump at 56.2% and Democrat Joe Biden at 41.5%.

This pollster’s last poll in 2020 in Kansas found Trump +14.4. He won by 14.6