Former US president Donald Trump has gained in the polls in the American presidential election, while Vice-President Kamala Harris retains her national polling lead.
Trump now leads by an average of 0.4% in polls of major battleground states, according to RealClearPolling’s October 14 report.
The latest polls from CBS News and ABC News/Ipsos show Harris leading by 2-3% nationally.
Both candidates are campaigning in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania today, with Harris speaking in the northwestern town of Erie and Trump holding a rally in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Harris’ next move will be an interview with Fox News on Wednesday. The vice-president will sit down with the network’s anchor Bret Baier in Pennsylvania.
Trump, meanwhile, declined a second presidential debate over the weekend, writing “VOTING HAS ALREADY BEGUN - THERE WILL BE NO REMATCH!” on his social media network, Truth Social.
Harris and Trump have weighed in on the devastation from Hurricanes Milton and Helene, which hit Florida and other southern states earlier this month.
Trump has claimed that hurricane relief was intentionally withheld from affected areas with a history of voting Republican.
He later said at a rally that the Biden-Harris administration’s storm response was the "worst hurricane response since [2005’s Hurricane] Katrina.”
Harris has accused Trump of “spreading disinformation when the truth and facts are required” at an event in North Carolina. “That is not what leaders, as we know, do in crisis,” she said.
