A new poll has found that Donald Trump has narrowed the gap with his political rival, Joe Biden.
The CNN survey, carried out from August 12-15, found that Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris had a national 4-point advantage over Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at 50%-46%.
The 4-point advantage given to the Democrats was on the cusp of the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
However two other polls – an ABC News / Washington Post poll published Monday and an NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll on Sunday – offered significantly different results. ABC put Biden 12 points ahead and NBC put him nine points clear.
The CNN poll also studied the 15 crucial battleground states, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
It suggested the gap in them had closed even further with Biden given just a 1-point lead over Trump at 49%-48%.
The movement among voters nationwide towards Trump and Pence since June is concentrated among men and those between the age of 35 and 64.
The figures show the extreme polarization between sexes and races; Trump has a 16 per cent advantage among men but a 13 per cent deficit among women – who are historically more likely to vote – while he is 16 points clear among white people but down 32 points among people of color.
College graduates are backing Biden 62 to 35, although non-college graduates are less polarized, with Trump ahead 51 to 43.
In the battleground states, the polarization is more extreme: 61 per percent of men back Trump and 60 per cent of women back Biden.❐
