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State of the Race: National Polls Tighten With 8 Days to Go
State polls remain steady, and two new polls in Texas and Nebraska show Senate control may still be in play.

Straining to see a Kamala Harris campaign rally in Philadelphia.Credit…Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
Results and analysis of new polls in the Senate races in Texas and Nebraska are at the bottom of this article.
With one week to go until the election, Kamala Harris’s lead over Donald J. Trump in the national polls is starting to get very slim.
Overall, she leads by less than one percentage point, according to The New York Times’s polling average. It’s her smallest lead since mid-August.
Even so, last week’s polls did offer a silver lining for her: The state polls didn’t seem to lurch toward Mr. Trump, even as the national polling did.




