Kamala Harris makes surprising lead in Iowa just hours before U.S. elections

Democratic candidate for the president of the United States, Kamala Harris, has shown a surprising lead in the conservative U.S. state of Iowa.  

According to a survey of likely voters conducted by ABC News/Ipsos over the weekend, Harris has 49 percent support versus 46 percent for the Republican.   Also, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll reflects a surprise victory for the Democrat, who has 47 percent support versus 44 percent for the former president.  This new survey follows one conducted in September, which showed the Republican with a 4-point lead over Kamala Harris.

This is a state that both in 2016 and 2020 gave the Republican solid victories, so the current turn has raised headlines.

This Sunday, the Democratic candidate made several stops in the state of Michigan, one of the seven critical enclaves for victory; while the Republican planned to visit Pennsylvania, North Carolina (where both opponents were this Saturday) and Georgia.

According to the survey, women, mainly older women or those who consider themselves politically independent, are drivers of change.  Despite the fact that the Republican maintains leadership over his base of support: men, evangelicals, rural residents and people without a college degree.

While the surveys and polls reveal a very tight race, the candidates maintained their campaign events.  This Sunday, the vice president was in Detroit (Michigan), where she prayed with members of the clergy after having spoken at the Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ.

The candidate stated that the next few days will be a challenge: "In these next two days, we will be tested."  She called for turning the page with a “divine plan” to “heal the division” in the nation.

“Let’s turn the page and write the next chapter of our history, a chapter based on a divine plan big enough to encompass all our dreams,” “strong enough to heal the division” and “bold enough to embrace the possibility of God’s plan,” he told the congregation in the church of this key state, which according to the monitoring of polls by The New York Times, is now leaning towards the Democrat.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump was at a rally in Pennsylvania, another enclave where the results of the presidential elections are being gambled.  Regarding the poll that indicates Harris’ advantage in Iowa, the Republican responded: “It was done by one of my enemies,” and again charged against the electoral bodies themselves: “The ballot boxes are very corrupt.”

A line that he maintained for a direct criticism of Harris: “I am competing against a totally corrupt person, against a corrupt machine called the Democratic Party,” said the candidate for the Republican Party.

In this regard, during his speech at Lancaster Airport, the former president told his supporters that the elections are being stolen, a statement he also made before the last elections.

In this state, the Republican has faced severe criticism, after the inappropriate comment of a comedian during one of his campaign events, who said that Puerto Rico is a "floating island of garbage."  Pennsylvania currently hosts hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans.