RALEIGH, N.C. — Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are in a dead heat in North Carolina with just a week to go until Election Day, according to a new WRAL News Poll released Tuesday. The results come one day before both major-party presidential candidates are scheduled to be in this key battleground state for a final get-out-the-vote push.
Harris, the Democratic nominee, and Trump, the Republican, were tied at 47% among likely voters. Another 2% said they planned to vote for one of the third-party candidates on the ballot this year. The remaining 4% were undecided.
Trump had trailed Harris by 3 percentage points, still a statistical tie, in a WRAL News Poll released in September. Both the September Poll and the new survey released Tuesday were conducted by SurveyUSA in partnership with WRAL.
North Carolina is one of only six or seven states that are considered competitive in this year’s presidential election; Trump won the state in 2016 and 2020, including by just 1.5% of the vote in 2020.
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