Former President Donald Trump has opened up a lead of 3 percentage points over Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris in the crucial battleground state of Georgia in the race for president, a poll by The Atlanta-Journal Constitution/University of Georgia released Wednesday found.

The survey of 1,000 likely Georgia voters taken between Sept. 9-15 revealed that 47% favored the Republican nominee and 44% favored Harris. The difference is just within the poll’s margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points.

Independent candidate Cornel West (0.7%), the Libertarian Party’s Chase Oliver (0.3%) and the Green Party’s Jill Stein (0.1%) all polled below 1%, and 7% said they were undecided.

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