A new poll shows that President Trump has surged ahead of Kamala Harris in the key battleground state of Georgia.
According to an Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey, Trump has the support of 49.8% of Georgians, while Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has only 47.2%.
The same poll found that Harris beat Trump by 1% at the end of August, meaning that Trump had gained three percentage points in about three weeks.
The poll found that a majority of Georgians cited the economy as the utmost of their concerns for the election.
Far more of the respondents said they disapproved of the job President Joe Biden (D) was doing while far more approved of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R).
The debate between Trump and Harris could have been a factor in the swing as well as the second assassination attempt on Trump’s life at his golf course in Florida.
Elections in battleground states are likely to determine the presidential election if the vote in the Electoral College is close, which is suggested by most polls.
Biden was able to win Georgia’s electoral votes in 2020 by a very small margin of about 11,700 votes, which precipitated the infamous call from Trump to Georgia’s secretary