Latest poll finds Harris ‘narrowly’ wins enough swing states to become first female president: Election live updates
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaigned in western battleground states on Thursday and will both be in Milwaukee on Friday
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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 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.”
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Harris campaign says undecided voters are breaking their way — but warns Trump will falsely claim victory
With less than a week before Americans head to the polls on Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is feeling the wind at their backs after a series of unforced errors by Donald Trump may have helped push undecided voters her way.
According to senior Harris campaign officials, undecided voters are casting their ballots for the vice president by a significant margin and have been driven by Trump’s extreme rhetoric and offensive remarks made by his surrogates, including at his Madison Square Garden rally last weekend.
One official told reporters on Friday that voters in a focus group held in a swing state this week were turned off by the hateful remarks directed at Puerto Rico by a pro-Trump comedian during the rally.
Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.
Harris campaign says undecided voters breaking their way with days to go
‘Our internal data is telling us and showing us that we are winning battleground voters who have made up their minds in the last week,’ a Harris campaign official said
Watch: Trump defends comments about Liz Cheney facing firing squad
Arizona county that will play major role in deciding election is desperately searching for more vote counters
Maricopa County is seeking election workers following a record-breaking surge of early voters — four years after the Arizona county became the target of Donald Trump’s election fraud claims.
Dubbed the “nation’s ultimate swing county” by the Associated Press, Maricopa County could determine the presidential race. But first, they need to find more early voter tabulators as over one million people have already cast their ballots early, officials said.
The Maricopa County Recorder’s office “URGENTLY needs additional help processing early ballots,” an email from the Maricopa County Public Health Department said on Wednesday. The message read: “Temporary assistance needed for the Recorder’s Office to assist in counting early ballots. This position pays $16 per hour,” according to a reporter from 12 News.
Arizona county that will play major role in election is searching for more workers
Maricopa County ‘URGENTLY needs additional help processing early ballots,’ an email read amid a surge of early votes cast
104-year-old Maryland woman casts vote for Harris
Pauline Patton, 104, was born before women and Black people were guaranteed the right to vote. Today she voted for Kamala Harris, who would be the first female president if she wins.
WUSA9 has the full report from Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Republican Party has already raised $90m to help fund post-election legal fights
The Republican Party is gearing up to support Donald Trump’s legal challenges to election results, again, by ensuring they have enough money to pay the bills – with more than $90 million raised so far.
In anticipation of another election where the former president and his allies will likely spread allegations of rampant voter fraud, the RNC has raised approximately $94.1 million in its recount account, with roughly 31 percent of those funds coming from Trump’s joint fundraising committee, according to Federal Election Commission data.
Recount accounts are funds specifically set aside to be used for legal or recount expenses after the election. Often, the costs in an election fight amount to attorney or filing fees, travel and ballot recounting charges levied by counties.
GOP has already raised $90m to help fund post-election legal fights
Former president spent millions in 2020 on legal challenges disputing election results
Arizona AG examining if Trump’s Cheney comments violated state law
The Arizona attorney general is investigating if Donald Trump violated state law by making a “death threat” against former Congresswoman Liz Cheney when he suggested that she face a firing squad during an event in the state on Thursday night, according to local media.
Marjorie Taylor Greene does pull ups to prove Trump hangs out with ‘strong, intelligent women’
Marjorie Taylor Greene has lashed out at Mark Cuban after the billionaire entrepreneur suggested that Donald Trump does not hang out with “strong, intelligent women.”
The Georgia congresswoman sought to prove Cuban wrong in a literal sense, by posting yet another video of herself working out in her home gym, this time doing a set of pull-ups.
It comes after Cuban appeared on talk show The View, where he said, referring to Trump, “You never see him hanging around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It’s just that simple.”
MTG does pull ups to prove Trump hangs out with ‘strong, intelligent women’
The Georgia congresswoman lashed out at Mark Cuban after the billionaire entrepreneur made the remarks on TV talk show The View
Live: Kamala Harris campaigns Janesville, Wisconsin
Watch live as Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns in Janesville, Wisconsin on Friday (1 November).
With four days of campaigning to go in the 2024 race, Harris and Trump are making their final pitches, spending Friday hosting competing rallies in Wisconsin where they will attempt to appeal to “blue wall” voters.
Nate Silver’s presidential election forecast shows Harris ahead in the national polls by just over one percentage point with just a few days to go until Election Day.
But Trump is narrowly ahead in several battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, while Harris has small leads in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Conservative columnist quits Washington Post by storming off live show
Conservative columnist Hugh Hewitt quit The Washington Post by storming off its live show on Friday.
During an exchange about the Trump campaign and the RNC being successful in their attempt to extend mail-in voting in the Philadelphia suburbs, the host of the show First Look, Jonathan Capehart, told Hewitt: “I don’t appreciate being lectured about reporting when, Hugh, many times you come here saying lots of things that aren’t based in fact.”
“I will not come back, Jonathan, how’s that? I’m done,” Hewitt said as he stood up and removed his earpiece. “This is the most unfair election ad I have ever been a part of.”
“You guys are working, that’s fine, I’m done,” he added before walking off.
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