Top senator outlines what Trump needs to do to beat Kamala Harris - as he issues stern warning to Donald amid brutal polls

Lindsey Graham has told Donald Trump what he needs to do to hit Kamala Harris successful November aft polls showed nan vice president catching up pinch nan erstwhile president.  

Overall nan title is simply a dead-heat, according to a caller CBS News/YouGov poll. Nationally, Harris now leads Trump successful nan title 50 percent to 49 percent among apt voters. In battleground states, nan title is now tied astatine 50 percent each. 

Graham, nan South Carolina legislator and 1 of Trump's closest friends successful Washington, said that his campaigner needs to instrumentality to nan issues Harris is anemic on, alternatively than causing controversy riffing connected Harris' identity as a biracial woman.

'The problem I person pinch Kamala Harris is not her heritage, it's her judgment,' Graham told Fox News Sunday. 

'She has been incorrect astir everything. When she tried to explicate what she would do astir inflation and an upcoming recession, it made nary sense. It's gibberish.' 

Graham was questioned astir Trump's comments astatine a National Association of Black Journalists convention successful Chicago Wednesday. 

Trump told a dispute assemblage he 'didn't know' Vice President Kamala Harris was achromatic and thought she was 'Indian each nan way.'

The erstwhile president said Harris 'became a achromatic person' aft having promoted her Indian heritage.

Graham, aft citing nan diverseness of his location state, continued to counsel Trump to debar distractions regarding Harris' identity.

'Every time we're talking astir her practice and not her terrible, vulnerable wide grounds passim her full governmental life. It's a bully time for her and a bad time for us,' Graham said. 

'So, I would promote President Trump to prosecute nan lawsuit against Kamala Harris' bad judgment.' 

Graham added that Trump's first word was 'an unthinkable presidency for nationalist security' and alternatively than getting distracted, he should talk astir issues that are his strongest and Harris' weakest.  

'It's important you triumph to reset a surgery separator and get nan world successful bully order,' he said. 'The American group are looking to person their problems solved.'

Harris is nan first black, female, and South-Asian-heritage vice president, but Trump suggested her clasp of achromatic civilization was phony.

The play came pinch nan very first mobility erstwhile he was asked astir immoderate of his past comments attacking achromatic journalists and lawmakers, and his gathering pinch a achromatic supremacist astatine Mar-a-Lago.

After tearing into his opening questioner connected a panel, Trump took connected Harris.

He said: 'She was ever of Indian practice and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't cognize she was achromatic until a number of years agone erstwhile she happened to move black, and now she wants to beryllium known arsenic black. So I don't know, is she Indian aliases is she black?'

He went on: 'And you cognize what, I respect either 1 but she evidently doesn't. Because she was Indian each nan measurement and each of a abrupt she made a move and she became a achromatic person. I deliberation personification should look into that.'

Later, Trump added connected Truth Social: 'Crazy Kamala is saying she’s Indian, not black. This is simply a large deal. Stone acold phony. She uses everybody, including her group identity!'

It came a time aft Harris attended a rally successful Atlanta pinch salient achromatic lawmakers and cheering supporters.

Trump has been making an intensive effort to unafraid achromatic votes and having immoderate success.

He staged a run arena successful nan Bronx and has featured 'Blacks for Trump' supporters astatine his rallies.

Harris has seen a jump successful nan polls aft getting a burst of publicity by stepping successful arsenic nan presumptive Democratic statesmanlike nominee successful lieu of Joe Biden, 81. 

While nan 2 awesome statement nominees are now successful a statistical tie, nan scenery was overmuch different for Democrats just 2 weeks agone erstwhile nan polling showed Trump pinch a 5 constituent lead complete Biden earlier he exited nan race. 

The July canvass besides showed Trump pinch a 3 constituent lead successful a hypothetical matchup against Harris, but nan vice president appears to person wiped retired his advantage since taking complete nan apical of nan ticket.

When 3rd statement candidates are factored in, Harris leads Trump 49 to 47 percent among apt voters.

The displacement comes arsenic Democrats person appeared to adjacent nan enthusiasm spread pinch nan shingle up astatine nan apical of nan Democratic ticket. The number of Democrats who opportunity they will 'definitely vote' has reached its highest constituent this twelvemonth to date, nan canvass found. 

Harris appears to person a boost erstwhile it comes to achromatic voters and women from erstwhile Biden was still successful nan race.

Seventy-four percent of achromatic registered voters said they will decidedly vote, nan canvass found. That's up from 58 percent who said nan aforesaid point successful mid-July erstwhile Biden was nan nominee. 

When it comes to nan gender gap, Trump leads Harris among men 54 percent to 45 percent, but erstwhile it comes to women nan numbers are reversed: Harris leads 54 percent to 45 percent. 

Voters position Harris arsenic much energetic, focused and competent. Trump leads among voters erstwhile it comes to being viewed arsenic reliable and effective.

When it comes to cognitive health, Trump, 78, nary longer has nan advantage he did erstwhile facing Biden. 51 percent of registered voters opportunity he does but 49 percent opportunity he does not. 64 percent of voters judge Harris has nan cognitive health. Only 36 percent opportunity she does not. 

When it comes to nan important battleground states, the races crossed each 7 are wrong nan separator of error. 

According to nan CBS News poll, Harris and Trump are now tied successful Arizona astatine 49 percent, Michigan astatine 48 percent, and Pennsylvania astatine 50 percent. 

Trump leads Harris successful Georgia and North Carolina among apt voters 50 percent to 47 percent and successful Wisconsin 50 percent to 49 percent. Harris now leads successful Nevada 50 percent to Trump's 48 percent. 

Despite nan shingle up astatine nan apical of nan Democratic summons and nan enthusiasm boost, voters noticeably don't spot Harris each that different from Biden erstwhile it comes to policy. 

Sixty-four percent of registered voters said Harris and Biden are mostly nan came connected argumentation while 18 percent said they are wholly nan same. Only 18 percent viewed them arsenic mostly aliases wholly different.

The Trump run pushed backmost connected nan displacement successful polling connected Sunday afternoon.

They based on successful a memo that nan displacement was owed to a methodological determination allowing ideology to alteration significantly. The memo claimed if not for that, Biden would lead 51 percent to 49 percent.