With less than three weeks until Election Day, the latest polls in the battleground state of Georgia show that former President Trump maintains a single-digit lead over Vice President Harris in the race for the state's 16 important electoral votes. was shown.
But polls in neighboring North Carolina, another key battleground state that also has 16 electoral votes, show Ms. Harris with a slight advantage over Mr. Trump.
The Republican presidential candidate leads the Democratic standard-bearer among likely Georgia voters 52% to 45%, leading Green Party candidate Jill Stein and the Libertarian Party, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Candidate Chase Oliver received 1% support each. .
Mr. Trump's 7-point lead increased by 1 point from his 50% to 44% lead over Ms. Harris in a September Quinnipiac poll in Georgia.
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Former President Trump sat down with Fox News' Harris Faulkner for a town hall on “Faulkner Focus,” answering questions from female voters in Georgia. (“Fox & Friends” screenshot)
Most other Georgia polls show a much narrower margin of error between the vice president and the former president.
President Biden narrowly defeated Trump in Georgia in 2020, becoming the first Democrat to lead the state in a White House election in nearly 30 years since former President Bill Clinton in 1992.
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A Quinnipiac North Carolina poll showed Harris leading Trump, 49% to 47%, to Oliver's 1%.
This is a turnaround from last month, when Trump held a two-point lead over Harris.
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Harris speaks at a campaign event at East Carolina University on October 13, 2024 in Greenville, North Carolina (AP Photo/David Iasel)
Most other recent polls show Trump with a slight lead over Harris in states he narrowly inherited from Biden four years ago.
“There's a population of electors that are going to be mined between these states,” said Tim Malloy, a Quinnipiac University polling analyst. “The state is up for grabs.”
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Pointing specifically to North Carolina, Malloy pointed out, “In a very close race, there is a huge gender gap between the two candidates, with Harris being the woman and Trump being the man, until the very end.''
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The poll's release comes as both states begin early voting this week.
Georgia began voting at the ballot box on Tuesday, setting a new record on the first day. North Carolina begins early voting on Thursday.
In Georgia, a new poll shows independent voters favor Trump over Harris, 49% to 42%. In North Carolina, Trump leads Harris among independent voters, 49% to 45%.
A new poll also shows that North Carolina's Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein is among the likely voters in the race to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. It also shows him leading Lt. Governor Robinson 52% to 40%.
A public opinion poll was conducted Between October 10 and 14, 1,328 potential voters in Georgia and 1,031 potential voters in North Carolina were questioned.
The sampling error was plus or minus 2.7 percentage points in Georgia and plus or minus 3.1 percentage points in North Carolina.
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