Vice President Kamala Harris pulled ahead of Donald Trump in five of seven battleground states since replacing Joe Biden at the top of the Democrat presidential ticket last month, according to a survey from the nonpartisan Cook Political Report released Wednesday.

In Cook’s May survey, Biden trailed his Republican opponent in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, and they were tied in Wisconsin. But Harris now leads in all but Georgia, where they are tied, and Nevada, where Trump’s eight-point lead in May has been sliced to five.

The results include independent and third-party candidates such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein. In a head-to-head matchup, Harris is leading the same states, but her margins are narrower.

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