With less than two weeks until the general election, former President Donald Trump is performing significantly better in national and battleground state polling than he did in both 2016 and 2020.
According to an average of national polls compiled and published by RealClearPolitics on Oct. 22, Trump is trailing Harris by less than a percentage point.
On the same day in 2020, Trump trailed President Joe Biden by 7.9 percentage points.
In 2016, he trailed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by 6.1 points.
Trump, who’s making his third run for the White House, ultimately lost the popular vote in both 2016 and 2020.
The polling averages published on Oct. 22 show Trump led the Democratic Party’s candidate in all seven battleground states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—that may well decide the outcome of the Electoral College….