Cardi B give passionate speech at Harris rally in Milwaukee as Trump suffers mic problems at nearby event: Live
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are holding rallies in Milwaukee in the crucial state of Wisconsin this evening
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Your support makes all the difference.The final poll from The Times and YouGov finds that Kamala Harris is set to narrowly win enough swing states to take the White House.
“We find that Kamala Harris very narrowly wins enough of those states to become America’s first female president,” Times US Assistant Editor David Charter said on Friday.
This comes as a Harris campaign official has said they “fully expect” former President Donald Trump to declare victory before all votes have been counted.
“It won’t work,” the official said during a press call.
“He did this before. It failed,” they added. “If he does it again, it will fail.”
With four days of campaigning to go in the 2024 race, Harris and Trump are making their final pitches, spending Friday evening hosting competing rallies in Wisconsin where they will attempt to appeal to “blue wall” voters.
Having already addressed two gatherings of his supporters on Thursday, the former president ended his day in a sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson on stage in Glendale, Arizona, at which he shockingly fantasized about former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney being shot at.
Cheney has since hit back at Trump, calling him “a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
Republican Party has already raised $90m to help fund post-election legal fights
Marjorie Taylor Greene does pull ups to prove Trump hangs out with ‘strong, intelligent women’
Arizona county that will play major role in deciding election is desperately searching for more vote counters
Harris’s one-word response to Trump’s declaration that he wants RKF Jr to work on ‘women’s health’
Barron Trump, his bestie Bo and the bro podcasters: The unofficial Gen Z Trump campaign recruits
With Election Day drawing near, Republican Larry Hogan believes he can convince Democrats to vote for him
John Bowden reports from Odenton, Maryland:
Thursday was the perfect weather to do some last-minute voter canvassing. Larry Hogan said he might just do that.
Maryland’s former two-term governor is in the home stretch of a Senate campaign which began only in February — a run, he says, that was born out of frustration over the inaction just a short drive away in Washington, particularly as the Senate this year failed to reach a compromise (once again) on border security and immigration reform.
He was outside of the Odenton library on Thursday with less than a week to go in the election, revving up a small crowd of volunteers who were greeting early voters. Hogan spoke to a handful of supporters and journalists on scene and projected confidence, remarking that in every race he’d run, “everyone has always counted us out, and we’ve always come out on top”.
A line for early voting stretched out the door and around the corner of the library behind him as he spoke.
Read on...
The Senate race where a Republican is winning over Democrats
Nowhere else in the country sees a Republican candidate running competitively in a blue state with the backing of many Democrats. But this is no ordinary race — and Hogan is no ordinary politician
New poll: Two-thirds of Americans are anxious about the election
Most Americans are anxious and frustrated, but also interested in the campaign for the White House as it enters its final days, according to a new poll.
While Democrats and Republicans largely have similar emotions about the upcoming showdown, Democrats are more likely to be anxious compared to their conservative counterparts, according to the AP-NORC poll.
Independents are equally frustrated but less excited, interested, and anxious.
Gustaf Kilander looks at the numbers.
Two-thirds of Americans are anxious about the election, new poll finds
Democrats more likely to be anxious than Republicans and independents, according to survey
George W Bush reveals his decision on 2024 endorsement
Former president George W Bush will not make a presidential endorsement in the 2024 race for the White House, according to his office.
The 43rd president will not join his former vice president Dick Cheney, who said last week that he would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris over Republican Donald Trump.
Here’s Graeme Massie with what the former president decided:
George W Bush reveals his decision on 2024 endorsement after Cheney snubbed Trump
The 43rd president will not join his former vice president Dick Cheney, who said last week that he would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris
When will we know who won the 2024 presidential election?
It’s been a dramatic, high-stakes presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
The polls are neck-and-neck and analysts are reluctant to make a solid prediction for which candidate will win.
Now, the question many are asking is: When will the race be called?
Here’s Rhian Lubin to explain:
When will we know who won the 2024 presidential election? Experts weigh in
Experts walk The Independent through the possible scenarios of when we’ll know whether Trump or Harris has won the race
Trump finally wrapped up after a rambling geopolitics lesson
Donald Trump wants to “ununite” Russia and China after, he claims, Joe Biden united them...
Trump kept speaking... and speaking...
He called Kamala Harris a “sleaze bag”:
Lied about his rally sizes:
Called Biden a “stupid bastard”:
Full story: White House altered transcript of Biden ‘garbage’ call despite staff concerns, report says
White House officials were pressured into altering the transcript of a Joe Biden call in which he appeared to refer to Donald Trump supporters as “garbage,” according to a report by the Associated Press, citing two U.S. government officials and an internal email.
The president had been criticizing a comment by a comedian at Trump’s New York rally last weekend calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”
He told a call with Latino supporters: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters [or supporter’s] — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
The comments caused a storm among conservatives.
Phil Thomas reports.
White House officials altered transcript of Biden ‘garbage’ call, report says
Furor erupted after MAGA comedian at Trump’s New York rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage’
Trump shocks with comments about ‘guns trained’ on Liz Cheney’s face
Trump repeats lie that January 6 committee deleted all evidence and documents
In Arizona, Donald Trump repeats the lie that the House January 6 select committee deleted all evidence and documents from their report on the events leading up to the Capitol riot.
It’s all available here including the supporting materials.
Watch: Trump attacks Clinton and Harris in Arizona interview
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