New poll in key swing state shows presidential candidate barely pulling ahead in the race between Trump and Kamala Harris

Pennsylvania voters are divided successful nan 2024 title now that Vice President Kamala Harris is nan de facto Democratic nominee.

In nan week aft President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid, Harris saw an enthusiasm and polling bump that appears to beryllium already slimming.

The 800 battleground authorities voters polled successful Pennsylvania July 23-25 opportunity they for illustration Harris by an inconsequential one-point separator that falls wrong nan 3.46 percent constituent separator of correction erstwhile it's a head-to-head matchup betwixt Trump and Harris.

But erstwhile third-party candidates are considered successful nan Commonwealth Foundation survey, nan 2 frontrunners are neck-and-neck astatine 44 percent while Democrat-turned-independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earned 2nd spot pinch 6 percent.

Harris has not announced her moving mate, but Pennsylvania's Governor Josh Shapiro is connected nan three-person shortlist to go nan Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee, according to Bloomberg. The others are Arizona Gov. Mark Kelly and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

All 3 are achromatic middle-aged to older men, which immoderate consciousness is needed connected a summons headlined by a achromatic and asiatic woman.

Shapiro is joined by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for a run plaything astir Philadelphia, Pennsylvania connected Monday to stump for Harris.

A abstracted Fox News canvass besides published connected Friday besides has Trump and Harris successful a dormant power successful Pennsylvania astatine 49 percent each.

The Keystone State is 1 of nan astir important to clinch successful November to triumph nan 19 Electoral College votes.

Trump nabbed a triumph successful Pennsylvania successful 2016 by conscionable 0.7 percent earlier nan authorities flipped bluish successful 2020 to spell for Biden complete nan incumbent by a 1.2 percent gap.

Pennsylvania is 1 of nan 3 toss-up states for 2024, according to Cook Political Report. The different 2 are chap rust loop states of Michigan and Wisconsin.

If Harris chooses Shapiro to subordinate her connected nan ticket, it could beryllium successful hopes that he would present a triumph successful Pennsylvania successful November.

Whitmer, erstwhile thought to beryllium considering a bid for president successful 2024, says that Harris will apt take her moving mate successful nan adjacent six aliases 7 days – conscionable earlier nan Democratic National Convention adjacent month.

Despite Shapiro's imaginable to thief bring successful voting blocs from Pennsylvanians and Jewish voters, immoderate mightiness beryllium deterred by him breaking pinch Democrats to support private-school vouchers, which would supply nationalist costs for parents to screen backstage acquisition costs.

'It's important that we assistance up each God's children, and we springiness typical attraction to those who are mediocre kids successful struggling schoolhouse districts,' Shapiro said successful an question and reply pinch The Wall Street Journal in December 2023.

More than 2 twelve mini pro-public acquisition groups sent a missive to Harris past week urging her not to prime Shapiro arsenic her VP.

'He is acold excessively supportive of schoolhouse privatization to beryllium nan vice president,' Arizona nationalist schoolhouse activistic Beth Lewis said. 'We don't request to beryllium soft connected this rumor because nationalist acquisition is nan cornerstone of our democracy.'