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Donald Trump is on target for an additional time period as US president after an unique ballot revealed he holds slim leads within the three northern swing states.

The forty fifth president, who has bought 71,000 black MAGA hats and has the help of Hulk Hogan, enjoys a three-point lead nationally, in keeping with analysis by the Democracy Institute for Express US.

Trump is projected to win 50% of the full vote, in comparison with 47% for Kamala Harris and three% for different candidates.

His margin of victory extends to 5 factors in Pennsylvania – seen by many consultants as probably the most essential of all of the swing states – the place he leads his Democratic rival by 51% to 46%.

However, the lead is much less pronounced in Michigan, the place our ballot has Trump at 49% in comparison with Harris at 47%.

And in Wisconsin, Trump instructions a three-point lead at 50% versus Harris’s 47%. The outcomes nonetheless level in the direction of a decent race, with all three states inside the margin of error of 5 factors.

Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin are the three northern-most of the seven battleground states. Traditionally Democratic, all three had been gained by Trump in 2016 however then turned blue once more to place Joe Biden within the White House in 2020.

Democracy Institute director Patrick Basham mentioned: “In a very competitive race, both nationally and in the swing states, Donald Trump approaches election day in the driver’s seat, with a slim but solid hold on an apparent majority of electoral college votes.

“With a win in Michigan, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, Trump secures victory. Our remaining polling throughout these pivotal rust-belt states reveals every state inside his attain.

“When the votes are counted, they all may be within his grasp, such is their history of voting together. Harris has the harder task: she must defend this entire ‘blue wall’ at all costs. It’s still doable for her, but increasingly unlikely.”

Our nationwide ballot featured a randomly chosen phone (landline and cell) pattern of 1,500 doubtless American voters between October 29 and 31.

The ballot moreover surveyed 450 doubtless voters in every of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Each particular person swing state ballot has a margin of error of (+/-) 5 factors at a 95% confidence interval.

The surveys had been performed by way of interactive voice response by which recorded questions had been performed for randomly dialed respondents and solutions got by way of phone keypads.

To guarantee a consultant pattern, the outcomes had been weighted for key demographic and political variables together with, however not restricted to, get together identification, gender, age, training, revenue, area, voting historical past and cell phone-only households.