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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait in Washington

Dead-heat poll results are astonishing – and improbable, these experts say

A composite of two images, a woman and a man looking away from each other
Kamala Harris in Chandler, Arizona; Donald Trump in Evans, Georgia. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

The US presidential election campaign enters its final weekend with polls showing Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in seemingly permanent deadlock and few clues as to which of them will prevail on Tuesday.

At the end of another unruly week that began with Trump’s racially charged rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden and was punctuated by celebrity endorsements, misogynistic comments and insults about “garbage” being levelled left and right, the Guardian’s 10-day polling average tracker showed little change from seven days earlier, with voter loyalty to their chosen candidate appearing relatively impervious to campaign events, however seismic.

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