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Two weeks to the U.S. election.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are hunting for the few undecided voters left.Credit…Erin Schaff for The New York Times; Nicole Craine for The New York Times
The U.S. election is tied
With two weeks to go before Americans head to the polls, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running neck and neck, Nate Cohn, The Times’s chief political analyst, writes.
Harris and Trump are essentially tied in The Times’s polling average of five critical battleground states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin and North Carolina. Neither candidate is ahead by a single point, and in several of these states neither candidate is ahead by more than two-tenths of a percentage point.
The last-ditch hunt for undecided voters: Both campaigns are desperately hunting for the few voters still up for grabs. Both camps think many of them are younger, Black or Latino. The Harris team is also eyeing white, college-educated women, and Harris campaigned with former Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming at events aimed at Republican women.
Voter fraud: With early voting underway in many states, Trump acknowledged that he had seen no signs of cheating, even as he continued to sow doubts about the integrity of the election. “I know the other side, and they are not good,” he said, of Democrats. “But I have not seen that.”
More on the U.S. election
Americans head to the polls in two weeks.
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Harris toured three battleground states in an effort to appeal to Republicans dubious of Trump.
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The biography of Harris, the daughter of a Hindu mother and a Christian father, embodies the multifaith, pluralistic and increasingly secular America she is bidding to lead.
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In one House race in Georgia, Democrats desperately want the “Democrat” to lose.
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Harris’s campaign has consistently outraised and outspent Trump’s. Trump is raising less money this year than he did in 2020.
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