Kamala Harris is losing ground to Donald Trump less than a month before the US presidential election, a series of polls suggest.
Harris' lead over Trump has narrowed or disappeared entirely as the race for the White House approaches the home stretch, according to three polls released Sunday.
In the latest NBC Information poll, Democratic and Republican candidates are tied nationally at 48 percent heading into the Nov. 5 vote, a reversal from Harris' five-point lead in the same poll last month .
In the latest ABC Information/Ipsos poll, Harris leads 50 percent to 48 percent among likely voters. The Democrat led 52 percent to 46 percent in the same poll last month.
The latest CBS Information/YouGov poll shows Harris leading 51 to 48 percent among likely voters, up from a four-point lead last month.
According to the latest figures, Harris has a lead of 1.4 percentage points in all major Actual Clear Polling polls, falling from 2.2 percent on Saturday.
The tightening poll numbers come amid concerns among Democrats that Harris is failing to shore up support among Hispanics and African Americans, two of the party's key constituencies.
While Harris leads among women of all races, she has struggled to spark enthusiasm among men, including African Americans and Hispanics, who have increasingly leaned toward Trump in recent years.
In The New York Times/Siena School polls released Saturday and Sunday, Harris attracted the support of 78 percent of black voters and 56 percent of Hispanic voters, percentages significantly lower than those obtained by the Democratic candidates in the 2020 and 2016 elections.
On Thursday, former President Barack Obama admonished black men for not showing as much enthusiasm for Harris' candidacy as they had received during her 2008 and 2012 campaigns.
“We come up with all kinds of reasons and excuses, that bothers me,” Obama said at a campaign event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of seven key states expected to decide the election.
“Because part of it makes me think – and I'm speaking directly to men – part of it makes me think that, well, you just don't feel the sense of having a woman as president, and you come up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”
Harris and Trump on Sunday continued to focus their campaigns on battleground states, holding events in North Carolina and Arizona, respectively.
At a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina, Harris took aim at Trump for spreading misinformation about the government's response to the recent hurricanes.
“The problem with this, beyond the obvious, is that it makes it more difficult to obtain life-saving information if they are led to believe that they cannot be trusted,” Harris said.
“And that is the pain of all of this, which is the idea that those who are in need have somehow been convinced that forces are working against them in a way that they would not seek help.”
Meanwhile, Trump used a rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona, to call for the hiring of 10,000 additional Border Patrol agents.
“After I win, I will ask Congress to immediately approve a 10 percent raise (they haven't had one in a long time) for all agents and a $10,000 retention and signing bonus,” Trump said. “We're going to hold them back.”
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