Harris and Trump deadlocked in polls as debate nears

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67% : And the latest RealClearPolitics polling average put Harris ahead by 1.4 percentage points nationally, while Trump led Biden by 4.5 percentage points.
66% : "Both Harris and Trump have been frequent visitors all over the Keystone State, including the vice president's stop in Pittsburgh on Labor Day for a rally with Biden and a return to the city Thursday to spend the weekend preparing for the debate.
53% : U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on CNN that Harris' ability to highlight her agenda during the debate with Trump is "an extremely challenging task in the face of all of the distraction, whatever outrageous things he does and says, because they will require a response.
46% : Trump survived an attempted assassination in Butler, Pa., the following month, and delegates enthusiastically nominated him for third time at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where GOP officials such as former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who spent the primary season going after the former president, fell in line behind him.
36% : In the Times/Siena poll, 28 percent of likely voters said they needed more information about Harris while only 9 percent said the same about Trump.
33% : Trump had led President Joe Biden but his advantages were almost always within the margins of error.
31% : "Do we want that kind of chaos and that kinds of -- absolute kinds of reckless and bizarre behavior from Trump?
16% : The New York Times/Siena College poll of likely voters had Trump ahead of Harris by one percentage point, 48 percent to 47 percent, well within the survey's margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
12% : The Times/Siena poll is the most recent survey to show Harris making up the deficit that Biden had in head-to-head competition against Trump.
10% : Trump led Biden by three percentage points in that survey, albeit within the margin of error.

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