But she has barely moved the needle among white voters, those same polls show. Whites without a college degree, long the linchpin of Trump's coalition, still favor the former president by 25 points, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll. They favored Trump by 29 points when he was running against Biden.
That relative resilience among white voters represents an electoral bright spot for Trump, and several Trump advisers and allies have told Reuters in recent weeks that maintaining the former president's margins within that demographic will be crucial if he is to defeat Harris.
That is especially true in the northern "Rust Belt" states, Wisconsin included, which skew white and have large rural populations. Trump relied heavily on these voters when he swept the Rust Belt's swing states on the way to his 2016 victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Biden won the White House in 2020 in part by bringing some of these voters back into the Democratic Party.
While the Trump campaign has identified Hispanics and Black men as a key area of growth for the Republican Party, much of Trump's campaigning in recent weeks has taken place in small cities and towns in the Rust Belt that are not diverse.
Trump's running mate, Ohio U.S. Senator JD Vance, is expected to hit relatively rural areas of the Rust Belt particularly hard in the final weeks before the election, two Trump advisers told Reuters.
Published 07 September 2024, 20:28 IST