A new Wall Street Journal poll found that there is barely a gap between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in seven battleground states, prompting one Democratic pollster to say the 2024 election “really isn’t any closer.” could be”.

The poll of 600 registered voters in each of the states, conducted from September 28 to October 8 with a margin of error of +/- four percentage points, found that Trump and Harris were in a neck-and-neck contest North Carolina and Wisconsin are tied.

The poll shows Harris leading Trump 48-46% in Arizona and Georgia and leading Trump 49-47% in Michigan. In Nevada, Trump has his largest swing state lead of 49-43%, while he leads Harris in Pennsylvania 47-46%, the poll also showed.

“It really couldn’t be any closer,” Democrat Michael Bocian, one of the pollsters who worked on the poll, told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s an even, close, close race.”

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The race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is tightening in swing states, according to a Wall Street Journal poll. (Fox News)

Overall, Trump leads Harris 46-45%, with 93% of Democrats and Republicans in the seven states expressing support for their parties’ respective candidates.

Among independent voters, 40% said they would vote for Harris, compared to 39% for Trump.

On these issues, voters say they trust Trump more when it comes to the economy, inflation, immigration and border security.

They preferred Harris when it came to housing affordability, abortion, health care and having someone in the Oval Office who cares about you.

The poll found that 47% of voters believe Trump will do a better job for American workers, compared to 45% for Harris, and that nearly two-thirds believe the national economy is bad or not so good.

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Former President Donald Trump listens as he answers questions at a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday, October 10, in Detroit, Michigan. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

“This thing is a dead heat and will get to the point. The last three weeks count,” Republican pollster David Lee told the Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper quoted Lee as saying that at this time in 2020, Biden had a polling average lead of more than 5 points over Trump in each of the northern industrial swing states, compared to the narrower margins Harris currently faces.

But Bocian says Trump had a “clear advantage” over Biden in March – the last time the Wall Street Journal polled swing states – at a time when third-party candidates had a “massive influence” on the numbers .

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally on Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Gila River Indian Community Reservation in Chandler, Arizona. (AP/Ross D Franklin)

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“Now third-party support has almost completely evaporated and the race is undecided in every state,” he said.