Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have both lost support among swing voters since the start of October, with the Republican losing six popularity points over the past week due to “self-sabotage,” according to data from social media monitoring company Impact Social.
The data showed Harris has gone from a rating of -8 with swing voters on September 27 to -17 on October 18, while Trump moved from -10 to -23 over the same period. Speaking to Newsweek, one political scientist said both the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees had become “polarizing figures” with American voters.
Trump and Harris are fighting for swing voters amidst what polling and election analysis suggest remains a tightly fought election. As of October 18, polling analytics website FiveThirtyEight gave Trump a 51 percent chance of victory, ahead of Harris at 49 percent. Separately, an average compiled by data aggregator RealClearPolitics found leading bookies currently give the former president …