With less than four weeks until Election Day in November, new polls in three crucial battleground states indicate former President Trump is making gains, but he remains in a toss-up race with Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to surveys from Quinnipiac University, Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, holds a 49% to 46% advantage over Trump, the Republican standard-bearer, in Pennsylvania.
But the former president edges the vice president 50% to 47% in Michigan and 48% to 46% in Wisconsin.
Harris' three-point edge in Pennsylvania is down from a 6-point lead in Quinnipiac's previous survey from a month ago.
The results in Michigan, where Trump is up by 3 points, are a switch from last month, when Quinnipiac's survey indicated Harris leading by 5 points.
And in Wisconsin, where the new poll gives the former president a 2-point edge, it's a slight change from September, when the vice president held a 1-point edge.
"That was then, this is now. The Harris post-debate starburst dims to a glow as Harris enters the last weeks slipping slightly in the Rust Belt," Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said.
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, along with Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada, had razor-thin margins that decided President Biden's 2020 White House victory over Trump. And the seven states are likely to determine if Trump or Harris wins the 2024 presidential election.
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin are also the three Rust Belt states that make up the Democrats' so-called "Blue Wall."
The party reliably won all three states for a quarter-century before Trump narrowly captured them in the 2016 election to win the White House.