Early voting is kicking off in both Florida and Wisconsin in the United States as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic counterpart Kamala Harris remain nearly deadlocked, particularly in a handful of closely fought “swing states” which could decide the presidential election, newly released polling data shows.
Ahead of the tightly contested presidential election on November 5, Trump and Harris are neck-and-neck across the country’s seven battleground states that can swing in favour of either candidate, according to the latest survey of voters published on Monday by The Washington Post.
About 47 percent of registered voters said they would definitely or probably cast a ballot for Harris, the poll found. Forty-seven percent said the same about Trump.
As for “likely voters”, 49 percent said they’d back Harris, with 48 percent supporting Trump.
A total of 47 states, including the District of Columbia, are preparing to get early voting underway. In-person absentee voting opened in Florida on Monday and will begin in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Early voting typically opens up to two weeks prior to election day and lasts until November 3.
The state of Georgia reported record turnout on its first day of early voting last week.
Alabama, Mississippi, and New Hampshire remain the only states that do not offer early voting; they also require an eligible reason to vote by mail.
The Washington Post survey, conducted in the first weeks of October, polled more than 5,000 registered voters, a sizeable sample, and examined a large group of unregistered voters who haven’t committed to a single candidate.
The poll comes just as Trump’s average has nudged slightly ahead of Harris in the aggregate of surveys calculated by the website FiveThirtyEight, though the margin is so small it remains a statistical tie.
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