Latest poll finds Harris ‘narrowly’ wins enough swing states to become first female president: Election live updates
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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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“All she wants to do is blow people up. She's a war hawk and a dumb one at that, and if you ever put her into the field of battle, she'd be the first one to chicken out,” he said. “She wouldn't fight. She'd chicken out so fast, and that's all I say. These are the people, they don't mind killing people, but if they had to do it themselves, she wouldn't fight, she's a coward.”
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“She kills people,” Trump said.
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YouGov/The Times final poll suggests Harris will narrowly win
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,” US Assistant Editor David Charter said on Friday.
Harris slams Trump as threat to democracy during Wisconsin campaign stop
Harris slammed Trump as a threat to democracy ahead of a campaign stop in Wisconsin.
“There’s a real contrast in this race when you look at who stands for democracy and democratic principles and who does not,” she told the press at an airport in Madison. “Donald Trump is talking about an enemies list. He’s talking about using the American military to turn on American citizens.”
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