Vice President Harris and former President Trump are essentially tied in battleground states. vote Battleground state statistics released Thursday.
A YouGov poll conducted for the London-based newspaper The Times and SAY24 showed Ms Harris leading in four battleground states – Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania – while Mr Trump had leads in three – Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina – all within the poll's margin of error.
Harris led by five points in Michigan (48 percent to 43 percent), three points in both Nevada (49 percent to 46 percent) and Wisconsin (47 percent to 44 percent), and in Pennsylvania, the poll found she led by one point among registered voters (46 percent to 45 percent).
In Arizona, Trump won 47% of the vote to Harris' 45%, two points ahead of her. In Georgia, Trump also won 47% of the vote to Harris' 45%, a tie there. In North Carolina, which Trump won by less than 2% in 2020, he won 47% of the vote to just slightly more than Harris' 46%, the poll said.
“Harris is leading in states even compared to March, which was a good period for the Biden campaign,” said Karl Bialik, YouGov's vice president of data science and US politics editor. said “She's outperforming or matching Biden's 2020 performance in five of the seven states,” the Times reported.
“In 2020, Biden won six states and won the election,” Bialik added. “If his leads in those states hold and the remaining states vote the same way they did in 2020, Kamala Harris will win the electoral vote 276-262.”
According to a recent CNN poll, neither candidate has a decisive lead in Georgia, Nevada or Pennsylvania. In Wisconsin, the vice president leads 50 percent to 44 percent. In Michigan, the vice president has 48 percent to Trump's 43 percent. In Arizona, the former president has a 5-point lead (49 percent to 44 percent).
Harris has an approval rating of 49.7%, 4 percentage points ahead of Trump and ahead of the former president's 45.7%, according to The Hill/Decision Desk polling.
The poll was conducted from August 23 to September 3. Arizona and Wisconsin had 900 samples, Nevada had 800, and the remaining states had 1,000 each. The margin of error was about 3-5 percentage points.
