Early voting in full swing in US election, Harris and Trump tied in polls

Early voting is kicking disconnected successful some Florida and Wisconsin successful the United States arsenic Republican statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump and his Democratic counterpart Kamala Harris stay astir deadlocked, peculiarly successful a fistful of intimately fought “swing states” which could determine the statesmanlike election, recently released polling information shows.

Ahead of the tightly contested statesmanlike predetermination connected November 5, Trump and Harris are neck-and-neck crossed the country’s 7 battleground states that tin swing successful favour of either candidate, according to the latest survey of voters published connected Monday by The Washington Post.

About 47 percent of registered voters said they would decidedly oregon astir apt formed a ballot for Harris, the canvass found. Forty-seven percent said the aforesaid astir Trump.

As for “likely voters”, 49 percent said they’d back Harris, with 48 percent supporting Trump.

A full of 47 states, including the District of Columbia, are preparing to get early voting underway. In-person absentee voting opened successful Florida connected Monday and volition statesman successful Wisconsin connected Tuesday. Early voting typically opens up to 2 weeks anterior to predetermination time and lasts until November 3.

The authorities of Georgia reported record turnout connected its archetypal time of aboriginal voting past week.

Alabama, Mississippi, and New Hampshire stay the lone states that bash not connection aboriginal voting; they besides necessitate an eligible crushed to ballot by mail.

Latest poll

The Washington Post survey, conducted successful the archetypal weeks of October, polled much than 5,000 registered voters, a sizeable sample, and examined a ample radical of unregistered voters who haven’t committed to a azygous candidate.

The canvass comes conscionable arsenic Trump’s mean has nudged somewhat up of Harris successful the aggregate of surveys calculated by the website FiveThirtyEight, though the borderline is truthful tiny it remains a statistical tie.

The canvass results coincide with the 2 candidates hitting the run way successful afloat unit this play – successful wildly antithetic ways. On Sunday, Trump was dishing retired gallic fries astatine a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, portion Harris celebrated her 60th birthday astatine a religion successful Georgia.

US Vice President Kamala Harris looks connected arsenic Stevie Wonder sings ‘Happy Birthday’ to her during a Souls to the Polls Sunday work successful Jonesboro, Georgia. October 20, 2024. [Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters] (Reuters)

Harris is holding moderated conversations with erstwhile Republican Liz Cheney successful 3 battleground states connected Monday. Her teaming up with Cheney, the girl of erstwhile Vice President Dick Cheney, has drawn criticism from immoderate Arab Americans owed to the latter’s enactment for the Iraq war.

Trump has besides seized upon the partnership, calling the erstwhile congresswoman from the authorities of Wyoming a “War Hawk.”

Arizona and Georgia

Trump’s enactment hasn’t budged overmuch successful the pivotal states since an earlier canvass by Post-Schar. Harris is up six percent points connected her predecessor, President Joe Biden, who had tallied 41 percent of elector enactment anterior to dropping retired of the contention successful July.

Trump is riding precocious successful Arizona, maintaining a six-point pb implicit Harris among registered voters. He is besides up successful North Carolina with a four-point vantage connected the vice president among registered voters.

His leads successful those states somewhat alteration among apt voters. The latest Post-Schar findings disagree from a caller Quinnipiac Poll, which recovered Harris mightiness person a insignificant pb successful North Carolina.

Harris is polling strongest successful Georgia wherever she’s up six points connected Trump among registered voters and 4 points with apt voters. She has a flimsy pb connected Trump successful Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Harris has 3 points connected Trump with registered voters successful Nevada, but the governmental rivals are successful a dormant vigor among apt voters.

Fundraising

One country wherever Harris has Trump bushed is fundraising. As predetermination time looms, Harris raised a whopping $633m successful the 3rd fundraising quarter, bringing her full to implicit $1bn, according to The Associated Press.

Her run brought successful $359m past period unsocial and $222m successful September, but her squad has besides unloaded $270m successful October arsenic portion of a last-minute advertizing campaign.

The vice president’s run entered the period with $346m currency connected hand. Trump, meanwhile, had lone $283m astatine the commencement of the period and raised conscionable $160m successful September.

Trump earned a antithetic benignant of triumph aboriginal connected Monday erstwhile the Supreme Court announced it had rejected proceeding an entreaty from his onetime fixer, Michael Cohen, Reuters reported.

Cohen had sued Trump for retaliating against him portion promoting a politically explosive publication from Trump’s clip successful the White House. The justices declined to perceive the lawsuit without comment.

A US District Court had antecedently dismissed Cohen’s suit for damages, which the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld successful January.

Cohen antecedently pleaded blameworthy to 9 transgression counts related to run concern violations during the 2016 predetermination year.

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