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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast. This is an election year. Will Donald Trump be

re-elected? What is going on with the Democrats? And has America gone even more crazy? We'll be

discussing all of these things and more, more than once a week, because we don't feel you have enough

Americano in your life. I'm joined today by Marcus Roberts, who is Director of International

Projects at UGov, and we're going to be looking at the latest polls in this crunch

2020 presidential election year. Since we last spoke, the polls seem to have only improved for Biden

if you look at the sort of national level and among most of the leading pollsters. It seems to me,

however, there are little wrinkles here and there that suggest Trump is performing better

than a sort of superficial glance that the polls

would suggest. What's your reading of the latest? I think that's a fair characterization.

In this week's UGov national poll, we have a Biden national polling position of 49.9 versus 41.4% for President Trump. This represents a slight decrease for President Trump

and a slight increase for former Vice President Biden. How that's playing out at the state level

is more good news for Joe Biden, because at the moment, things are really about the Democrats

playing offense attacking more than just the states that they need to win the presidency,

but the states that can add to an electoral college majority. So if we look at the CBS UGov

Battleground Tracker up to polling on the 20th of September, we see the

following picture. In Ohio, Trump is leading by just one point, 50 to 49. But in North Carolina,

Joe Biden has a three-point lead, 51 to 48. In Iowa, we have a tide race, 4949.

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