Labor Day — traditionally considered the start of the final phase of a presidential election — is now behind us.
“There are only 64 days left until the most important election of our lifetime, and it will likely be one of the most important elections in the life of our nation.” Vice President Kamala Harris He stressed this point while addressing supporters at a union meeting in Pittsburgh on Monday.
Tuesday marks nine weeks until Election Day 2024, when Harris and Former President Donald Trump The contest with the White House is at stake.
The reality, however, is that the elections will begin well before November 5.
Election season starts earlier than you think
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)
Elections in many states are starting this month.
Absentee ballots will be mailed out starting Friday in North Carolina. Early voting begins Sept. 16 in Pennsylvania and Sept. 26 in Michigan, two other key battleground states.
Harris and Trump are set to have their first and possibly only meeting next Tuesday. Presidential debatesA primetime showdown taking place in Philadelphia.
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Pennsylvania, The largest of seven crucial battleground states that will decide the 2020 election between Trump and President Biden is garnering considerable attention this week.
Harris returns to Pittsburgh on Thursday, her second visit this week to western Pennsylvania’s largest city and union stronghold, and her 10th stop this year in the Keystone State.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden arrive at a campaign event at the IBEW Local Union #5 union hall in Pittsburgh on Labor Day, Monday, September 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin)
Trump, who has made multiple visits to Pennsylvania this year, will be in the spotlight once again on Wednesday. Fox News Town Hall hosted by Sean Hannity in Harrisburg.
Most of the latest national polls show Harris with a slight single-digit lead over Trump, but the presidential election is not a national popular vote contest. It’s a battle for individual states and their electoral votes.
Latest Survey The polls are within a margin of error in seven key swing states. These surveys also include a batch from Fox News that made headlines last week.
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Trump argues he has momentum.
“We’re leading in the polls now,” the former president said in an interview with Fox News’ Brian Lainas on Friday.
Minutes later, at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Trump said that “our polling numbers are skyrocketing.”
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Getty Images)
Harris is urging her supporters not to pay too much attention to the surveys because, as she reiterated on Labor Day, “we are the underdog in this race.”
At a rally in Savannah, Georgia, last week, the vice president predicted that “this will be a closely contested race until the very end.”
The current state of the race is a big change from earlier this summer when Biden was still in the race.
Biden’s disastrous performance The debate against Trump in late June raised doubts among Americans about whether the 81-year-old president would have the physical and mental capacity to serve another four years in the White House. It also fueled calls from top Democratic Party aides and elected officials for Biden to drop out of the race.
National and state-level polls conducted in July indicated Trump had a small but significant lead over Biden.
The president dropped his bid for reelection on July 21 and endorsed his vice presidential nominee, and Democrats immediately rallied around Harris, helping her enjoy a quick surge in polling numbers and fundraising.
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Still, pollsters and political analysts insist the Harris-Trump contest is still a coin toss.
However, Trump’s team likes the current survey situation, as they point out that the former president has a history of performing well in opinion polls.
“At this time in the race in 2016, Donald Trump was on average 5.9 points behind Hillary Clinton. At this time in the race in 2020, he’s 6.9 points behind Joe Biden,” senior adviser Corey Lewandowski said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” this weekend.
