WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 - A week before Americans vote for a new president, the race for the White House is even. Republican nominee Donald Trump leads in national polls as of Tuesday over Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by an average of 0.4 percentage points, according to the U.S. election information website Real Clear Politics.
Trump leads by a whisker in many crucial states, including Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and North Carolina, while Harris leads by half a point in Michigan.
These states are likely to decide the outcome of the elections and both candidates are actively campaigning in them and attending rallies to present their arguments to the voters.
"The presidential race remains close, but Harris is outspending Trump in ads by a ratio of 2 or 3 to 1," a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution told Xinhua Darrell West.
The main topics are inflation and the economy. While President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris have overseen an economy with low unemployment, many voters are outraged by the high prices that have been pushed through under the current administration.
In addition, the Trump campaign blames the Biden and Harris administrations for leading to a large increase in crime in urban areas.
Shops are now locking up their goods as thieves brazenly fill bin bags with goods and simply walk out of the shop without paying. Drug addicts are shooting heroin and other hard drugs in broad daylight in many cities. They harass and physically assault passers-by and urinate and defecate on pavements in city centres.
At the same time, Trump has ruffled a few feathers, as he is known to do, with his rhetoric, which critics call inflammatory.
Critics have also blamed Trump for his plan to begin mass deportations of millions of immigrants who have poured across the border illegally since the current administration took office. Trump's critics fear that could lead to problems including breaking up families and giving too much power to law enforcement.
It is not yet known how the undecided voters will behave.
"Many undecided voters will not vote at all," told Xinhua Clay Ramsay, a researcher at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland, added that people who are unlikely to vote make up a large percentage of adults based on past elections.
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