The Federal Reserve’s 50-basis-point interest rate cut Thursday was hailed as a potential election game changer for the ostensible Democrat incumbency and Sunday’s CBS News poll data appears to have backed that narrative.

That is even as a large majority (59%) still consider the economy “bad” compared to good (just 39%), a 20-point net negative, but improvement from worse to just bad is being taken as a positive by Vice President Kamala Harris backers.

Harris (52%) now leads Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (48%) by 4 points nationally and 2 points (51%-49%) among the seven battlegrounds (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin).

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