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Donald Trump is ahead in the majority of the seven key swing states, a new Telegraph poll shows.

The Republican has increased his support in the four crucial states in the Sun Belt by one point, according to the latest in a series of surveys conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies for The Telegraph.

This has taken him into the lead in Georgia, Nevada, Arizona and North Carolina.

With just over two weeks to go to polling day, the 78-year-old has moved to take the lead in most of the 2024 battlegrounds.

He is neck-and-neck with his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in Michigan and Pennsylvania, both of which Joe Biden won by narrow margins in 2020.

The US vice-president leads Trump in just one of the battlegrounds, Wisconsin, and by a single point, 47 to 46 per cent.

In national polls, Trump and Ms Harris are locked in a dead heat and the presidential race will ultimately come down to the results in a few crucial states where both major parties enjoy similar levels of support among the voting population.

In the past few weeks, the Harris campaign has undertaken a media blitz which included a poorly received Fox news interview and a controversial CBS sit-down, which has embroiled the network in an impartiality row after it edited one of the presidential hopeful’s answers to make it more “succinct”.