SUN BELT POLL: TRUMP’S POLICIES HELPED, WHILE HARRIS’S WOULD HURT. The new New York Times poll of Sun Belt swing states — Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina — shows former President Donald Trump ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in each. Trump is up 5 points, 50% to 45%, in Arizona; up 4 points, 49% to 45%, in Georgia; and up 2 points, 49% to 47%, in North Carolina.

It’s good news for Trump, who needs victories in the Sun Belt to give him the chance to move on to a victory in the Rust Belt — Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin — that would win a second term in the White House. But beyond the horse-race number, the poll included two questions that yielded revealing results.