Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are within two percentage points of each other in four swing states that could decide the 2024 race, a poll released Wednesday showed.
The Fox News survey found Harris holding slim leads in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada; and Trump topping Harris by a razor-thin margin in North Carolina.
In Arizona, Harris garnered 50% support to Trump’s 49% backing.
In both Georgia and Nevada, the vice president held a 2-point edge (50% to 48%) over the Republican nominee.
In North Carolina, Trump has a 1-point advantage (50%-49%) over the Democratic nominee.
The survey’s findings were all within the poll’s margin of error, suggesting that the four pivotal Sun Belt battleground states remain tossups 10 weeks away from Election Day.
President Biden carried Arizona and Georgia in the 2020 election by less than a percentage point, and he won Nevada by just over 2 points. Meanwhile, Trump defeated Biden in North Carolina by just over 1 point in 2020.
There are 49 Electoral College votes in play in the four swing states: 16 apiece in North Carolina and Georgia, 11 in Arizona and six in Nevada.
The Fox News survey was conducted between Aug. 23-26, after the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which was expected to give Harris a bump in polling.
The Trump campaign dismissed the poll’s findings.
“It’s that time of year again. Fox is releasing atrocious polling,” the campaign said in a statement.
The campaign noted that the network’s polling was “off in North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada” during the same time period in 2020, and “overstated” Biden’s support in Georgia in their only 2020 survey of the state, released that June.
“President Trump continues to outperform polling from past cycles,” the campaign added. “President Trump is 10 points ahead of where he was in Arizona at this point in 2020, according to Fox. Likewise, he is running 8 points ahead of his 2020 polling in Nevada and 5 points ahead of his 2020 polling in North Carolina.”
“We see the same trend nationwide.”
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