Former President Donald Trump is narrowly ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential contest in Arizona, as the Democratic nominee loses ground among women, Hispanics, and young voters.
A new Fox News survey of Arizona voters finds Harris trails Trump by 3 percentage points among likely voters in both the two-way matchup (48-51%) and the expanded ballot that includes third-party candidates (47-50%, with 3% backing other candidates). While 9 in 10 say their vote choice is locked in, both Harris and Trump have a handful of supporters saying they may change their mind.
In August, Harris was up by 1 point in the horserace among registered voters (50-49%), while she’s down by 2 points today (48-50%). All of these matchups are within the margin of error.
The 3-point shift among registered voters is mainly due to movement among young voters, women, and Hispanics.
Since August, Harris’ 18-point lead among Hispanics has narrowed to 11 points and her 14-point edge among women is down to 8 points. What was a 13-point advantage for Harris among voters under age 30 is now a 12-point deficit, a 25-point shift. These changes are notable, even given that estimates among subgroups are more volatile.
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Trump tops Harris among Whites without a college degree, rural voters, and independents. He has a narrow edge among suburbanites because more suburban men back him than suburban women favor Harris. And, by just a touch, more of his 2020 voters stick with him than Biden’s 2020 voters back Harris.
Harris has strong support among those ages 65 and over, voters with a college degree, and urban voters, and still receives majority backing among women and Hispanics. Plus, one in four non-MAGA Republicans favors Harris over Trump.
By a 51-46% margin, Trump leads among new voters, defined as those who haven’t voted in the four most recent elections.
"Arizona is looking tougher for Harris than a month ago," says Democratic pollster Chris Anderson, who conducts Fox News surveys with Republican Daron Shaw. "If young voters and Hispanics don’t make a U-turn, it’s hard to see how she walks away with a win."
More Arizona voters trust Trump than Harris to handle immigration (by 15 points) and the economy (+8). Those are significant leads, and they match where things stood last month -- but compared to his June leads over President Joe Biden, Trump’s advantage is down 5 points on immigration and down 7 points on the economy.
Trump is also seen as being better at making the country safe by 7 points.
There’s little difference between the candidates on who will better protect democracy (Harris +3), help the middle class (Harris +2), fight for people like you (Harris +2), and bring needed change (Trump +1).
Harris leads Trump by 15 points on handling abortion, down from her 22-point lead last month.
More than 7 in 10 Arizona voters favor the state’s proposed constitutional amendment establishing the right to an abortion, including more than two-thirds of independents and half of Republicans.
The two candidates are about equal in personal favorable ratings. Harris gets net negative marks by 3 points (48% favorable, 51% unfavorable), while Trump’s are negative by 5 points (47%-52%). For the vice-presidential candidates, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s ratings are negative by just 1 point (42-43%) with 15% unable to rate him. Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s favorable rating is underwater by 7 points (40-47%) and 12% have no opinion.
Trump won Arizona in 2016 by about 3.5 percentage points, while Biden’s 2020 victory was by less than half a percentage point.
In the Senate race, Democrat Ruben Gallego tops Republican Kari Lake by more than 10 percentage points: 55-42% among likely voters and 56-42% among registered voters. Gallego is preferred across most demographic groups, but women voters are a big part of what gives him the advantage as they back him over Lake by a 23-point margin. He also receives the support of 6 in 10 independents and nearly 2 in 10 Republicans.
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Some 15% of Gallego supporters split their ticket and back Trump in the presidential race. Some of the biggest ticket splitting is among independents, who are 16 points more likely to back Gallego than Harris, and Republicans (10 points more for Gallego). Among those voters favoring Lake, only 3% go for Harris.
Poll-pourri
Early voters are more likely to back Harris by 11 points, while Trump is favored by 30 points among the smaller group of Election Day voters.
Biden’s personal favorability is negative by 21 points, 39% favorable vs. 60% unfavorable. That’s a big decline from four years ago when his ratings were positive by 2 points (June 2020).
Thirty percent rate the U.S. economy positively, up from 25% who said the same four years ago.
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Conducted September 20-24, 2024 under the joint direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News Poll includes interviews with a sample of 1,021 Arizona registered voters randomly selected from a statewide voter file. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (147) and cellphones (616) or completed the survey online after receiving a text (258). Results based on the registered voter sample have a margin of sampling error of ±3 percentage points and for the subsample of 764 likely voters it is ±3.5 percentage points. Weights are generally applied to age, race, education, and area variables to ensure the demographics of respondents are representative of the registered voter population. Likely voters are based on a probabilistic statistical model that relies on past vote history, interest in the current election, age, education, race, ethnicity, church attendance, and marital status.
Fox News’ Victoria Balara contributed to this report.
