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The 2024 Election season is reaching its crescendo.
Labor Day historically marks the ultimate stretch forward of a presidential election, and there are simply 9 weeks of campaigning left till Election Day on Nov. 5.
In a slew of states, nonetheless, the election truly will get underway this month. In swing state North Carolina, mail-in voting begins on Sept. 6. Early voting begins on Sept. 16 in Pennsylvania and Sept. 26 in Michigan, two different essential electoral battlegrounds.
With the clock ticking, former President Donald Trump says he has the momentum.
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks throughout a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Picture/Rebecca Droke)
“We’re main within the polls now,” the previous president mentioned in an interview Friday with Fox Information’ Bryan Llenas.
Minutes later, at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Trump touted that “our ballot numbers are beginning to skyrocket.”
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Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is urging her supporters to “not pay an excessive amount of consideration to the polls as a result of we’re operating because the underdog.”
Harris, at a rally in Savannah, Georgia, late final week, pointed to her showdown with Trump and mentioned, “We now have some onerous work forward of us.”
Vice President Kamala Harris factors to supporters as she arrives at a rally in Savannah, Georgia, on Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin)
Many of the newest nationwide surveys present Harris with a slight single-digit edge over Trump, however the presidential election shouldn’t be a nationwide standard vote contest. It’s a battle for the person states and their electoral votes.
The most recent surveys within the seven battleground states that determined the 2020 election between Trump and President Biden – and can doubtless decide the end result of the 2024 showdown – point out a margin-of-error race. Amongst these polls are a batch from Fox Information that made headlines final week.
It’s a large change from earlier this summer season when Biden was nonetheless operating.
Biden’s disastrous efficiency towards Trump of their late June debate turned up the quantity of current doubts from Individuals that the 81-year-old president would have the bodily and psychological stamina to deal with one other 4 years within the White Home. It additionally sparked a rising refrain of calls from prime Democratic Social gathering allies and elected officers for Biden to drop out of the race.
Nationwide and battleground state polls carried out in July indicated Trump had opened up a small however important lead over Biden.
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Getty Photographs)
The president dropped his re-election bid on July 21 and endorsed his vice chairman, and Democrats instantly coalesced round Harris, who shortly loved a lift in her ballot numbers and in fundraising.
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Nonetheless, pollsters and political analysts stress that the Harris-Trump contest stays a coin-flip at this level.
Whereas Trump touts his standing, the vice chairman predicts that “that is going to be a good race till the very finish.”
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Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based mostly in New Hampshire.
Margin of error race between Harris and Trump as 2024 election enters closing stretch
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