These Are The Top Issues Voters Care About After Trump Assassination Attempt

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On "Forbes Newsroom," HarrisX Founder and CEO Dritan Nesho discussed a new HarrisX/Forbes poll which showed the top concerns of voters.

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00:00Ever since the debate last month, it seems like the conversations have largely moved away from

00:06talking about the top issues, those issues that really matter to voters. But what are those

00:12issues? Are they still the economy, inflation, immigration? What did you find?

00:18Absolutely. So not much has changed in terms of voters' concerns. By a margin of almost two to one

00:28or a factor of almost two to one, voters feel that they are worse off today in terms of their

00:34personal finances rather than their personal finances improving. That's because price

00:40increases and inflation is the number one issue that they say is facing the country today and is

00:45facing them today, followed by immigration, which is second at 30 percent, the economy and jobs,

00:53third at 24 percent. And then you have a dropout from there and a series of other

00:59middling issues like guns, crimes and drugs, health care, which are roughly at 15 to 16 percent each.

01:08So the top issues remain the same. They are tabletop issues. They relate to affordability.

01:16They relate to inflation. They relate to the health of the economy. And then certainly there's

01:22a big concern about the southern border that I would say is the second biggest issue

01:28in the country right now. Driton, from what we know, what are you watching out for next

01:35as the RNC continues, as the DNC is next month? Well, voters are clear in that they want the

01:45Republican National Convention to focus on a vision for the future, to focus on issues,

01:52and to focus on solutions. Eighty nine percent said that they would rather have that

01:58than a litigation of why we ended up where we are, why the shooting happened, why

02:09the dynamic of this race has had the dynamic that it has. Again, as I mentioned before,

02:14nine in ten Americans seldom agree on anything. And it's very clear that voters

02:22are overwhelmed by the rhetoric. They are underwhelmed by the lack of solutions being

02:28brought forward by the major parties and their candidates. And they actually want

02:35a race for the next three to four months that's really focused on problem solving,

02:40that's focused on common sense, that goes beyond personalities. And I will say that so far,

02:46the Trump campaign has played into that. And that's what they're trying to give

02:52voters with their restraint and with essentially focusing on the future, less so

03:00the events that transpired 48 to 72 hours ago.

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