A new poll suggests former President Trump holds a slim five-point advantage over Vice President Harris in the battle for Florida’s 30 electoral votes.

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, stands at 47% support among likely voters in Florida in a USA Today/Suffolk University/WSVN-TV survey released on Tuesday, with Harris, the Democratic Party’s nominee, at 42%.

The survey of 500 likely Sunshine State voters indicates Democrat-turned-independent Robert F. Kennedy at 5%, Libertarian Party nominee Chase Oliver at 1%, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent Cornel West registering at less than 1%.

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Florida was once the largest of the battleground states in presidential elections. Former President Obama narrowly carried the state in his 2008 and 2012 White House victories, and Trump edged out Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton to win the state in 2016.

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But four years ago, in his 2020 re-election defeat, Trump won Florida by 3.3 points over President Biden, which was the biggest winning margin in the state in a presidential contest in 16 years.

Former President Trump leaves after speaking at a campaign rally at the Trump National Doral Golf Club on July 9, 2024, in Doral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

And in the 2022 midterms, conservatives surged at the state level, with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis winning re-election by 19 points and GOP Sen. Marco Rubio securing a third term in the Senate by more than 16 points.

“While not exactly a flashing red warning light for Trump, the survey is a caution sign for anyone who thinks the race is sure to be a blowout in Florida,” Suffolk University Research Center director David Paleologos said.

New voter registration numbers released Monday in Florida indicate Republicans with a 1 million person advantage over the Democrats. That marks a vast turnaround from four years ago, when Democrats held a slight edge in voter registration.

“Given those circumstances, I was surprised that Harris is within striking distance being only five points down,” Paleologos added.

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A Fox News poll conducted in June, when President Biden was still at the top of the Democrats’ 2024 ticket, indicated Trump with a four-point 50%-46% advantage in Florida.

But Trump’s polling margins over Biden expanded after the president’s disastrous debate performance against his GOP challenger in late June. 

Biden’s rambling and uneven answers at the debate fueled questions over whether the 81-year-old president had the physical and mental abilities to handle another four years in the White House and sparked a chorus of calls from within his own party to end his 2024 campaign.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally, July 30, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Democrats quickly coalesced around Harris after Biden’s blockbuster announcement three and a half weeks ago that he was ending his re-election campaign and endorsing his vice president to succeed him at the top of the party’s ticket.

Harris has enjoyed a bump in the polls and a surge in fundraising since taking over as the party’s 2024 standard-bearer.

The new poll indicates Harris matching Trump for voter enthusiasm in Florida, with 89% of each group saying they are very or somewhat excited to vote for the candidate they’re supporting. Enthusiasm among Biden voters in Florida stood at just 60% in a USA Today/Suffolk poll from June.

The new survey was conducted Aug. 7-11 with a sampling error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.

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A Florida man has killed one and injured two others after crashing a semi-truck into a Tampa gentleman’s club early Tuesday morning.

The truck driver is in custody and in critical condition after the incident. The unnamed driver was kicked out of the establishment around 4:00 am Tuesday for unknown reasons leading up to the deliberate crash.

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“Around 4:19 am, officers responded to a call for a truck vs pedestrian in the parking lot of the Emperors Gentleman Club located at 5718 E. Adamo Drive,” read a Tampa Police statement shared with Fox News Digital.

“Upon arrival, officers found the truck had crashed into the front area of the building that leads to the entrance,” the statement continued.

According to police, witnesses at the scene shared that the unnamed driver “had just been kicked out of the club” before returning to crash into the entrance of the gentleman’s club, hitting a group of people present.

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The Tampa Police described the victim and the two other injured parties present as “adult males.”

The two injured men are hospitalized currently but expected to survive the incident.

The Emperor’s Gentleman’s Club in Tampa was the scene of a fatal deliberate crash in the early hours of Tuesday morning. (WTVT)

“This is an unbelievably tragic and completely avoidable incident,” said Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw in a statement shared with Fox News Digital. “We will work to get justice for the victims and their families. We are thinking of all those impacted including the innocent bystanders who witnessed this horrific ordeal.”

The Tampa Police Department will release more information as it becomes available, including charges pressed against the semi-truck driver.

A manhunt has been launched after a convicted murderer managed to escape law enforcement’s grasp on the way to receive medical care at a nearby hospital.

According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Ramone Jamarr Alston, 30, escaped from the custody of officers from the North Carolina Department of Corrections while being transported from Bertie Correctional Institution to UNC Gastroenterology in Hillsborough to receive care.

Alston was last seen wearing a gray T-shirt, brown pants and white New Balance shoes. He was also wearing handcuffs connected to a belly chain with a black box over the junction.

In a 4:30 p.m. press conference, Orange County officials said they believe Alston had help in his escape efforts and offered a $25,000 reward to anyone who can provide information that would lead to his capture.

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The 30-year-old convicted killer managed to escape by freeing himself of leg restraints on the way to the hospital at 7 a.m. Tuesday, police said.

“How he [Alston] got them off, I don’t know,” Sheriff Charles Blackwood said.

Once the vehicle door was opened, he jumped out and ran to a wooded area nearby.

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Police said two armed corrections officers were guarding him. 

“If someone has an intent to go where you don’t know, they’re going to go, and they run,” Blackwood said. “And it happens, bang, bang. The gentleman, as soon as he put his foot on the ground to get out of the vehicle, took off running.” 

Ramone Jamarr Alston was last seen wearing a gray T-shirt, brown pants and white New Balance shoes. He was also wearing handcuffs connected to a belly chain with a black box over the junction. (Orange County Sheriff’s Office)

The two officers chased Alston but were unable to catch up with him. 

“Policy a lot of times dictates what we do when we deliver an inmate wherever, and the same with the [Department of] Adult Corrections,” Blackwood continued. “We have secure lock boxes that we put our guns in sometimes when we’re moving an inmate from one place to the other, and that protocol was followed this morning.”

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina is offering $25,000 for information leading to the capture of Ramone Jamarr Alston. (Orange County Sheriff’s Office)

Police stressed the importance and scope of the ongoing manhunt to recapture Alston.

“As far as the community goes, there are two ways of looking at this,” Sheriff Blackwood said during a media briefing. “He’s either within a five-mile radius or he’s in the rest of the world. And we’re searching both.”

Sheriff Blackwood encouraged residents to lock their windows and doors and report any suspicious activity to police.

Alston, who had been serving a life sentence at Bertie Correctional Institution in Windsor, North Carolina, was responsible for the murder of 1-year-old Maleah Williams on Christmas Day 2015.

Alston was found guilty of first-degree murder.