Fox News polls show: Kamala Harris gaining popularity in swing states

According to a recent Fox News poll, Vice President Kamala Harris has narrowed the gap in several crucial swing states just one month after starting her campaign.

The network released new polls on Wednesday comparing Harris' support in four swing states to President Joe Biden's poll numbers before he ended his re-election campaign in late July. The results showed Harris locked in a neck-and-neck race with former President Donald Trump in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina – states where Biden once trailed the Republican presidential nominee by at least 5 percentage points in each.

In Arizona, where Harris is currently one percentage point ahead of Trump (50 percent to 49 percent), Biden was five percentage points behind in a Fox News poll in June. Harris is also two percentage points ahead of Trump in Georgia and Nevada (50 percent to 48 percent). Biden, on the other hand, was six percentage points behind the former president in Georgia in April and five percentage points behind in Nevada in June.

According to Wednesday's poll, Trump was one percentage point ahead of the vice president in North Carolina (50 percent to 49 percent). In a February Fox News poll, the former president was five percentage points ahead of Bien.

The polls released Wednesday are based on responses from 1,000 registered voters in each of the four swing states and were collected between August 23 and 26. Each poll has a margin of error of three percentage points, meaning Harris and Trump are statistically tied in the race for the White House.

Trump's campaign released a memo Wednesday night in response to Fox News' poll results, which it called “horrific.” Trump's team pointed to Fox's poll results during the 2020 presidential election and argued that the network was “wrong” by several percentage points compared to Election Day results.

In one example included in the memo, a Fox News poll showed Biden leading Trump by 10 percentage points in Arizona in November 2020. In 2020, Biden turned the tables in Arizona, beating Trump by just 0.3 percentage points (49.4 percent to 49.1 percent).

The former president has stepped up his attacks on Fox News this election cycle, including railing against the network's poll results, which he previously called “fake” in a post on Truth Social.

Newsweek reached out to Trump's campaign team via email on Wednesday for further comment.

Harris has gained tremendous momentum since entering the 2024 race, and other polls have shown her making inroads in battleground states for Democrats. Cook Political Report reported this week that Harris has turned the tide in states like North Carolina, which the polling analysis website once classified as “leaning Republican.” That state is now in the “undecided” category, and states like Minnesota and New Hampshire are now classified as “likely Democratic.”

In Pennsylvania, recent polls from Quinnipiac and The New York Times Harris is ahead by 3 and 4 percentage points, respectively, according to RealClearPolitics, while Biden was at one point 4.5 points behind Trump. Harris is also slightly ahead in the polls in Michigan and Wisconsin, although the race is extremely close with Trump in each of the swing states.

According to FiveThirtyEight, Harris was ahead of Trump by an average of 3.3 percentage points in all national polls on Wednesday.