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With less than 80 days left until November 5, the race for the White House is quickly heating up.

This week, Vice President Kamala Harris will attend the Democratic National Convention and officially accept the nomination. On September 10, she and Trump are facing off for a one-on-one debate. Then, come October 1, Democratic running mate Tim Walz will debate GOP running mate JD Vance.

In the meantime, both the Harris and Trump campaigns are working tenaciously to make headway in battleground states. Thus far, polling shows the candidates in a dead heat with one another.

A closer look at the latest election polls

According to Times/Siena, the vice president carries a two-point lead over Trump in North Carolina and a five-point lead over him in Arizona. Both of these states went to the former president in 2016 and 2020, so the latest numbers in these battlegrounds suggest a dent in his support.

Georgia and Nevada, on the other hand, currently have Trump in the lead. The 45th president holds four-point and one-point advantages over Harris.

Central to any presidential candidate's campaign is the running mate they choose to join them on the ticket. For Trump, there's been talk about whether selecting Vance was a miscalculation. So far, the Ohio senator's favorability stands at 36%, while 45% view him unfavorably.

For Walz, he carries a 38% favorability rating, with 35% seeing him in an unfavorable manner. The Minnesota governor was ultimately handpicked by Harris for his leadership experience, background in education, and pronounced focus on the middle class.

Throughout the vice president's run for the White House, she's promised to uplift middle America, should she win the election.

More polls to keep an eye on

Americans who are eager to follow the presidential race are going to have ample opportunities to do so. Pollsters can be expected to release new data in the aftermath of this week's Democratic National Convention. The same also goes for next month's first (and possibly only) debate between Harris and Trump.

In the meantime, surveys divided by gender show the vice president leading comfortably with women, while Trump holds a double-digit advantage among male voters.