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Trump and Harris locked in seven battleground states, poll shows: ‘Couldn’t be closer’

A new Wall Street Journal poll shows little separation between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in seven battleground states, prompting one Democratic pollster to say the 2024 election “really couldn’t be closer.”

The survey of 600 registered voters in each of the states, which was conducted from September 28 to October 2014, was conducted. 8 with a margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points, found that Trump and Harris are tied in head-to-head in North Carolina and Wisconsin.

Harris leads Trump 48%-46% in Arizona and Georgia, and 49%-47% in Michigan, according to the poll. In Nevada, Trump has his largest lead in the swing state of 49%-43%, while in Pennsylvania he has a lead of 47%-46%, the poll also showed.

“It really couldn’t be any closer,” Democrat Michael Bocian, one of the pollsters who worked on the survey, told The Wall Street Journal. “It’s a balanced, tight, tight race.”

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According to a poll by The Wall Street Journal, the race between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is tightening in swing states. (Fox News)

Overall, Trump leads Harris 46%-45%, with 93% of Democrats and Republicans in the seven states expressing support for their parties’ respective candidates.

Among independent voters, 40% said they would vote for Harris, compared to 39% for Trump.

On these issues, voters say they trusted Trump more to handle the economy, inflation, immigration and border security.

They favored Harris on housing affordability, abortion, health care and having someone in the Oval Office who cares.

The poll found that 47% of voters believe Trump is doing a better job of standing up for American workers, compared to 45% for Harris, and nearly two-thirds believe the national economy is bad or not so good.

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Former President Donald Trump listens as he answers questions during a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit on Thursday. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

“This thing is a dead end and will come down to the wire. The last three weeks matter,” Republican pollster David Lee told the Journal.

The newspaper quoted Lee as saying that Biden had an average lead of more than 5 points over Trump in each of the industrial northern swing states at this time in 2020, compared to the smaller margins Harris currently faces.

However, Bocian says Trump had a “clear advantage” over Biden in March — the last time the Journal surveyed swing states — at a time when third-party candidates had a “tremendous impact” on the numbers.

Harris in Arizona

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks Thursday at a campaign event at the Gila River Indian Community Reservation in Chandler, Arizona. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

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“Now the third-party support has almost completely disappeared and the race is level in all states,” he said.