AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Less than two months before election day, two polls released Friday show the race for President getting tighter in Texas.
The Hill and Emerson College asked voters who they would choose if the election was held today. The results show former President Donald Trump leading Vice President Kamala Harris 50% to 46%. That’s within the poll’s 3.3% margin of error. The poll was conducted from Sept. 3 and Sept. 5.
A different poll released Friday by the Texas Politics Project and the University of Texas found Trump leading Harris by five percentage points (49% to 45%) in a poll conducted of 1,200 registered voters between Aug. 23 and Aug. 31. Pollsters estimated the margin of error at 2.83 percent.
These numbers held when pollsters looked at a head-to-head matchup of the two candidates and when they factored in third-party candidates, like the Green Party’s Jill Stein and Libertarian Chase Oliver. The poll provides another snapshot of how Texans feel about the presidential contest since Biden ended his reelection bid in July .