The 2024 election season is reaching its climax.
Labor Day traditionally marks the final stretch before the presidential election, with just nine weeks of campaigning remaining until Election Day on November 5.
But in many states, the election begins this month. In the battleground state of North Carolina, mail-in voting begins on September 6. Early voting begins in two other key battleground states, Pennsylvania on September 16 and Michigan on September 26.
With time ticking, former President Donald Trump says he has momentum.
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Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)
“We’re leading in the polls right now,” the former president said in an interview with Fox News’ Brian Lenas on Friday.
Minutes later, at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Trump thundered, “The poll numbers are starting to skyrocket.”
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Democratic candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris has urged her supporters not to pay too much attention to the polls, because “we’re running behind the curve.”
“We have a tough job ahead of us,” Harris said at a rally in Savannah, Georgia, last weekend, pointing to her showdown with Trump.
Vice President Kamala Harris points to a supporter as she arrives at a rally in Savannah, Georgia, on August 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin)
While most of the latest national polls show Harris leading Trump by small single-digit margins, the presidential election is not about the national popular vote — it’s about states and their electoral votes.
The latest polls in seven battleground states that will determine the outcome of the 2020 election between President Trump and President Biden and likely the outcome of the 2024 runoff showdown, with the race within the margin of error. Among those polls is a series of Fox News polls that made headlines last week.
That’s a big change from earlier this summer, when Biden was still campaigning.
Biden’s crushing defeat to Trump in a debate in late June has further fueled doubts among Americans about whether the 81-year-old president has the physical and mental fortitude to serve in the White House for another four years, and has prompted calls from prominent Democratic Party supporters and elected officials for Biden to drop out of the race.
National and battleground state polls conducted in July showed Trump building a small but significant lead over Biden.
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Getty Images)
The president gave up his reelection bid on July 21 in favor of his vice president. Democrats quickly rallied around Harris, who enjoyed a rapid rise in her approval ratings and fundraising.
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Still, pollsters and political analysts stress that the race between Harris and Trump is currently a matter of luck.
While the former president has touted his standing in the polls, his team has noted that the former president has a history of doing well in the polls and stresses that he likes his current poll position.
“At this point in the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump was trailing Hillary Clinton by an average of 5.9 points. At this point in the 2020 campaign, he was trailing Joe Biden by 6.9 points,” senior adviser Corey Lewandowski noted in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” this weekend.
Meanwhile, Harris predicts that “it will be a close race until the very end.”
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