National polls are a good guide as to how popular a candidate is across the country as a whole, but they're necessarily a good way to predict the result of the election.
In 2016, for example, Hillary Clinton led in the polls won nearly three million more votes than Donald Trump, but she still lost - that's because the US uses an electoral college system, so winning the most votes doesn't always win you the election.
With that caveat aside, Joe Biden has been ahead of Donald Trump in most national polls since the start of the year. He has hovered around 50% in recent months has had a 10-point lead on occasions.
As Mrs Clinton discovered in 2016, the number of votes you win is less important than you win them.
Most states nearly always vote the same way, meaning that in reality there are just a handful of states both candidates stand a chance of winning. These are the places the election will be won lost are known as battleground states.
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We only had a couple of days to mull over the first debate before President Trump's bombshell tweet in the early hours of 2 October revealed he the first lady had tested positive for coronavirus.
While the pandemic has dominated headlines in the US since the start of the year, the focus had shifted to the Supreme Court after the death of long-serving Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September.
So Mr Trump's positive coron
avirus test put his response to the pandemic, which has claimed the lives of more than 230,000 people in the US, back under the spotlight.
The original text : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-53657174
Edited by: Alice
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