A very tight knot: It’s finally The 2024 U.S. presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is tightening as Election Day approaches. According to the latest polling data, the two candidates in this race are running neck and neck tie which is amongst the most closely watched contests in U.S. political history.
This is according to a new poll recently revealed by NBC News on October 13, indicating that Trump gained ground and now leads the election with 47% of the voter support compared with Harris’s 46%. This has indicated a near-drastic change from the support Harris enjoyed in last month’s poll.
Kamla Harris still leads in a similar different poll conducted by ABC News and Ipsos, where she had 50% of the votes compared with Trump with 48%. Meanwhile, a CBS News/YouGov poll has Harris slightly ahead of Trump nationally, 51-48 percent, but the margins in key battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin are razor-thin.
Campaigns are adapting their tactics as they turn their attention to crucial swing states. Harris is zeroing in on the Rust Belt, which she puts at the center of her effort to expand manufacturing and create more jobs for the middle class. In campaign events she held recently, she vowed to raise job training dollars and to double assistance for first-time homebuyers.
Trump has focused much on immigration and border security-an issue which is still brooding for him to resonate more with his base. His campaign has announced he is going to increase personnel at the border patrol and make immigration policies stronger.
With less than a month to go until November 2024, voters are being battered with political ads, campaign events, and debates that could sway undecided voters. Analysts have said it would be one of the closest elections in U.S. history, and both sides are working hard to energize their bases.
