Donald Trump has narrowed his lead over Joe Biden in polls in three battleground states, new polls show.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee is expected to face the incumbent in November, and polls expect the effects of the 2020 White House rematch to be narrow, with men statistically tied or with only a marginal lead in several polls.
However, in three swing states, there are signs that Biden has slightly improved his score since participating in the first presidential debate, despite a performance considered mediocre.
During the debate, Biden gave a series of incoherent and confusing answers and at times seemed to interrupt himself without completing his sentences. Since then, he has gained calls within his party to end his re-election bid and allow Democrats to install a new candidate for the general election. The odds of Biden winning against Trump have also fallen among sportsbooks.
However, in Georgia it has increased its percentage of the vote with 0. 9% since the debate, while the Republican Party continues with 3. 5%.
In Michigan, he increased his vote share to 0. 8 percent, putting him ahead of Trump by 0. 4 percent, and in North Carolina, he also increased his vote share to 0. 8 percent. percent, Republicans are still ahead at four percent.
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These polls are vital thanks to the electoral school system, which gives the state a certain number of votes based on its population.
Biden flipped Georgia from Donald Trump with 11,779 votes, or 0. 24% of the five million votes cast, making Trump the first Republican to lose the state in decades.
North Carolina has voted for the Republican nominee in 10 of the past 11 elections, and former President Barack Obama won that state in 2008. But Trump won there with just 1. 3% of the vote in 2020 — his narrowest victory in the state — and North Carolina has voted for the Republican nominee in 10 of the past 11 elections. elects Democratic governors. Seven of his last eight gubernatorial races have been blue.
In 2016, Trump took Michigan, Biden turned it blue again in 2020. Democrats won the state in seven of the last eight presidential elections.
A presidential candidate will have to land 270 electoral votes to win, and winning the national popular vote does not guarantee success.
However, with about 4 months to go before the election, it is still too early to call it, and other polls recommend that the two candidates are tied or that Trump is in the lead.
A second presidential debate between the 2024 candidates is scheduled for September 10. The electorate will then go to the polls on November 5.
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