Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has exchanged barbs over the airwaves Tuesday as they reached out to the few remaining undecided voters in the final stretch of an election seen as one of the closest in modern US history.
Harris has maintained a lead of two-to-three points in national polling since mid-August, despite presidential and vice-presidential debates, encouraging jobs data, an interest rate cut, escalating international crises and a devastating hurricane.
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he takes the stage during a town hall event at the Crown Complex in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on October 4, 2024.
“I literally lose sleep — and have been — over what is at stake in this election,” the Democratic vice president, 59, told radio icon Howard Stern in a 70-minute live interview.
A poll from Siena College and The New York Times out Tuesday highlighted the deadlock, finding Harris ahead of her Republican rival by 49 per cent to 46 per cent — although it had the pair in a dead heat in September.
Poll-watchers expect the stalemate to break only in the last couple of weeks before election day on November 5, as the small fraction of wavering Americans who will decide the election break one way or the other.
In the seven battleground states seen as likely to determine the election, the race is even tighter.
The new poll gave Trump the edge on who is the stronger leader but, crucially, revealed that registered voters see Harris as the change candidate.
