Donald Trump has slashed Joe Biden’s lead in some of the key battleground states which will likely determine who wins the US election, according to new polling for The Telegraph. The US president saw the percentage of people who say they will vote for him in six swing states rise between July and early September, according to the survey results. The results will be cheered in the Trump campaign given the president has trailed by a huge margin over the summer as coronavirus cases surged in America. For months Redfield & Wilton Strategies has been tracking opinion for this newspaper in the six states Mr Trump won by the narrowest margins in 2016: Arizona, North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. The last polling in mid-July showed Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, clearly in the lead in all six states. The latest surveys, conducted in late August and early September after the party conventions, have that lead narrowing. Mr Trump is now ahead in North Carolina by one percentage point, according to the polling. He has also roughly halved Mr Biden’s lead in Florida. Mr Biden still leads in Pennsylvania and Arizona and is far ahead in Michigan and Wisconsin.
