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Here’s who’s in charge in the key 2024 election battlegrounds
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Here’s who’s in charge in the key 2024 election battlegrounds

Topline

The swing state race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is nearly even, with new polls Tuesday showing a one-point race in Michigan, Arizona and Nevada, all within margins of error.

Key facts

Nevada: Trump is ahead 48%-47% in Nevada, according to a CNN/SSRS poll released Tuesday (margin of error 4.6 points), Harris is up 48.8%-48.3%, according to a Bloomberg poll Wednesday (margin of error 5 ), but Trump is ahead 47%-46% in an October 22 AARP poll (margin of error 4) and they are tied at 48% in an October 21 Washington Post-Schar poll (margin of error 4.8 ). Harris leads by 0.2 points in the FiveThirtyEight polling average.

Arizona: Harris leads 48%-47% in the CNN/SSRS poll (margin of error 4.4), Trump leads 50%-49% in a Marist poll released Thursday (margin of error 3.7) and Trump is ahead by three points: 49% -46% – in the Washington Post-Schar School poll (margin of error 5), but Bloomberg reports an essentially equal lead of 49.1%-48.8% over Harris, within the three-point margin of error. Trump is up 1.8 points in the FiveThirtyEight polling average.

Michigan: Trump leads Harris 49%-48% in an Emerson poll released Tuesday (3 point margin of error), while Harris’ lead of 49.6%-46.5% marks the largest lead among all states surveyed by Bloomberg, but it is still within four points. margin of error – and it compares to Harris’s 49%-46% lead in the Quinnipiac poll (margin of error 2.9) released on October 23. Harris is up 0.7 points in Michigan in the FiveThirtyEight polling average.

Georgia: Trump and Harris are tied at 49% in the Marist poll (margin of error 3.9), and Trump leads 49.9%-48.4% in the Bloomberg poll (margin of error 3) and 47%-43% in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll of likely voters came out Tuesday (margin of error 3.1), while the Washington Post-Schar poll (margin of error 4.5) showed Harris with a 51%-47% lead. Trump leads by 1.5 points in the FiveThirtyEight polling average.

North Carolina: Trump is up 50% to 48% in the Marist poll — within the 3.6-point margin of error — and he’s up 50% to 48% in an Emerson College poll released Thursday (also within the 3.1-point margin of error ), while the Bloomberg poll showed him leading 49.6%-48.5% (margin of error 4) and the Washington Post-Schar poll showed him leading 50%-47% ( margin of error 3.9). FiveThirtyEight’s average shows Trump with a 1.2-point lead.

Wisconsin: The state is about as close as it gets, as Trump is up 49% to 48% in the Emerson poll (margin of error 3.4), 48.3%-48% in the Bloomberg poll (margin of error 4), and the two candidates are In a Quinnipiac poll on Wednesday, the score was 48% (margin of error 2.9), while Harris has a 50%-47% lead in the Washington Post-Schar poll (margin of error 4.6). Harris is 0.1 point higher than the FiveThirtyEight average.

Pennsylvania: Trump leads 49% to 48% in the Emerson poll (margin of error 3.4), while Bloomberg found Harris 50%-48.2% higher (margin of error 3), and she had a 49%-47% lead in the Washington Post-Schar poll (margin of error 4.6). Still, Trump leads Harris by 0.3 points in the FiveThirtyEight polling average.

Big number

0.4. That’s how many points Trump leads Harris in the RealClearPolitics national polling average, while FiveThirtyEight’s average has Harris up 1.5 points.

Important background

Harris became the Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race on July 21 amid an intraparty revolt in the wake of his debate performance, dramatically changing Democrats’ fortunes. Prior to the shift, polls consistently showed Trump would beat Biden in most battleground states, despite Biden winning six of seven (excluding North Carolina) in the 2020 election.

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