Kamala Harris has tightened the presidential race against Donald Trump in key states where Joe Biden was on track to lose, new polls show.
The vice president is tied with Trump in Michigan and Pennsylvania, with a six percent increase in Minnesota and a one percent drop in Wisconsin.
Harris has erased the lead Trump was building in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin before Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday.
The Beacon Research and Shaw & Company Research poll conducted July 22-24 for Fox News joined other polls showing the race was getting closer.
Kamala Harris has tightened the presidential race against Donald Trump in key states where Joe Biden was on track to lose, new polls show
Trump is up 1 percent in Wisconsin, but his leads in key states have been erased since Joe Biden dropped out and Kamala became his likely replacement.
Harris and Trump each won 49 percent of the vote in Michigan and Pennsylvania, while Trump won 50 percent to Harris’s 49 percent in Wisconsin.
Minnesota, a traditionally Democratic state that was increasingly up for grabs, again appears out of reach for Trump, with 46 percent to Harris’s 52 percent.
However, the contests were head-to-head and did not take into account the effect of third-party candidates such as independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Including the additional candidates, Harris rises two percent (45 to 43) in Pennsylvania and six percent in Minnesota (47 to 41).
Trump holds a two percent lead in Michigan (45 to 43) and Wisconsin is tied at 46 percent each.
Polls before Biden’s withdrawal showed the president trailing by 2 to 9 percent in Pennsylvania, 1 to 7 percent in Michigan and around 3 percent in Wisconsin.
The Fox News poll did not survey voters nationally, but polls by the New York Times and some other pollsters gave Harris or Trump just a 1 percent lead.
Harris must win Pennsylvania to have a chance of beating Trump, and she likely needs Michigan and Wisconsin as well.
Losing Minnesota would be a shock and mean Democrats would be in danger of suffering a crushing defeat.
More to come.
