In July, President Joe Biden ended his campaign and backed Vice-President Kamala Harris, upending the initial 2020 rematch in the election.
The key question at hand is whether America will elect a second term for Donald Trump or its first female president.
We’ll be monitoring the polls as election day draws near to observe how the campaign affects the White House race.
Who is at the top of the national polls?
Harris has had a small lead over Trump in the national polling averages since she entered the race at the end of July and she remains ahead – as shown in the chart below with the latest figures rounded to the nearest whole number.
Harris saw a bounce in her polling numbers in the first few weeks of her campaign, building a lead of nearly four percentage points towards the end of August.
The numbers were relatively stable through September, even after the only debate between the two candidates on 10 September, which was watched by nearly 70 million people.
In the last few days the gap between them has tightened, as you can see in the poll tracker chart below, with the trend lines showing the averages and the dots showing the individual poll results for each candidate.
