What do polls, early votes reveal about election in North Carolina, a key swing state?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump led Harris by two points -- 50% to 48% -- in an Emerson College poll conducted between Oct. 21 and 22.
39% : For example, Trump has encouraged his supporters to vote early this year in contrast to 2020, when he was highly critical of the practice, according to Politico.
36% : With just one week until Election Day, here is what recent polls and early voting data reveal about the state of the race in the Tar Heel State.What polls showAccording to a polling average compiled by FiveThirtyEight -- an election analysis site -- Harris and Trump are just about dead-even with one another, with Trump leading by just 1% as of Oct. 29.
34% : "We should be careful about over-interpreting the early voting results in any election -- and even more careful about comparing them to 2020, which was unique not just because of the pandemic but because Trump and the Republican Party actively discouraged their voters from voting early," Hildebrand said.

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