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Harris and Trump are neck and neck in the polls with early voting underway | US elections 2024

More than 1.4 million people have now voted in the presidential election, as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continue to crisscross the country in the home stretch of a neck-and-neck campaign.
Their vice presidential picks, JD Vance and Tim Walz, also faced off this week in the only vice presidential debate this cycle. But early polls suggested voters viewed the debate as a draw, with no clear impact on the race.
Harris achieved her highest national average since July, even though the presidential race remains extremely close in battleground states, according to the Guardian poll. Harris is leading in five of seven swing states, according to the Guardian's average of high-quality state polls aggregated by polling analytics platform 538 over the past 10 days. But overall, both candidates continue to have roughly equal chances of winning.