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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Tim Walz takes a shot at Trump’s age after garbage truck gaffe
Speaking in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, Harris’s running mate slammed their septuagenarian rival after he flew to Wisconsin, donned a bright orange safety vest and got into a waste collection vehicle in an attempt to troll the Democrats.
“Look, this dude’s nearly 80 years old,” Walz said. “He damn near killed himself getting into a garbage truck.”
Katie Hawkinson reports.
Walz takes a shot at Trump’s age after garbage truck gaffe: ‘Dude’s nearly 80’
Trump donned a safety vest and got into a garbage truck in an attempt to slam Joe Biden and Kamala Harris this week
Liz Cheney reponds to Trump: ‘This is how dictators destroy free nations'
A typically robust and no-nonsense response from Cheney here to Trump’s fantasy about her violent murder.
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Apologies if you’re eating your breakfast right now.
Republicans Against Trump group blasts swing states with billboards in final weekend before election
The Super PAC run by former GOP operatives that’s been working to convert former Trump voters into supporters of Kamala Harris is making a final push in key swing states with a massive billboard campaign meant to hammer home the message that it’s OK for a Republican to vote for a Democrat this time around.
On Friday, Republican Voters Against Trump rolled out a six-figure campaign to cover the sides of main roads in three key swing states with signs featuring ex-Trump voters who are now voting for Harris.
The billboards will be placed in “swarms” in which multiple signs will greet drivers, back-to-back, as they commute over the next few days. They will run in the Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Detroit media markets on November 1 and November 4.
Andrew Feinberg has more.
Anti-Trump GOP group blasts swing states with billboards in pre-voting weekend
Billboards will run in the Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Detroit media markets on November 1 and November 4
Trump’s claim he will put RFK Jr in charge of women’s health sparks concern
The Republican said twice yesterday that the conspiracy-minded vaccine-sceptic will be given responsibility for women’s health in his prospective future administration.
This was Harris’s pithy response to that nightmare scenario.
This meme is also reason enough not to appoint the former independent candidate to anything.
But RFK Jr may not even be the weirdest member of Trump’s hypothetical next Cabinet…
Trump: ‘Nothing is more dangerous than to give immense power to a weak and not very smart person’
I suppose even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
The Republican presidential nominee said the above during his first engagement on Thursday in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which also contained more not-particularly-subtle projection as he claimed it was Kamala, not he, that is exhausted and, bafflingly, called her “a cracker”.
There was also another musical interlude as a member of the crowd received medical attention.
JD Vance and Joe Rogan gush over Trump as deputy says they can win ‘normal gay guy vote’
Before we recap the Republican’s other big event yesterday, here’s a look at his number two’s sitdown with Rogan.
Amusingly, the pair gushed that Trump looks better now than he did in 2016, only for the man himself to repay Vance for the compliment with this crushing remark in Albuquerque.
The Ohio Senator otherwise claimed the Republican ticket could pick up “the normal gay guy vote” and scaremongered about the imposition of Sharia law in Tim Walz’s Minnesota, which is, needless to say, not something that is actually happening.
Here’s Oliver O’Connell’s report.
Trump praises Elon Musk ‘in terms of computer’, threatens to shut down two major news networks and calls US cities ‘dirty and smelly’
Before his sit down with Tucker, Trump was in Henderson, Nevada, yesterday afternoon, where his rolling river of bile saw him utter the immortal words of Elon Musk: “In terms of computer, I would say he’s probably about as good as you get.”
He also threatened to shut down both ABC and CBS (imagine the lawsuits), twice declared himself the “father of IVF”, said Democrats are opposed to windows (?!), described all of America’s cities as dirty and smelly and attempted to put aside concerns about his authoritarian instincts by saying: “I am the least threat.”
Well, I’m convinced!
Kamala Harris mocks Trump’s crowd size obsessions as she’s joined by J Lo at Vegas rally
Over in Nevada, the Democrat was doing some normal campaigning in the course of which she ridiculed Trump’s crowd size mania and called out her opponent’s closing message to the American people of “hate and division”.
She was joined by pop superstar and actress Jennifer Lopez, who delivered an emotional and scathing takedown of Trump campaign’s “floating garbage island” comments about Puerto Rico.
Maira Butt has more.
Jennifer Lopez delivers scathing takedown of Trump campaign’s garbage truck comments
Star, who is Puerto Rican, said ‘every Latino in this country’ was offended by the remarks
Donald Trump fantasises about shooting of Liz Cheney in deranged Tucker Carlson live interview
Good morning!
Let’s start with a look back at Donald Trump’s final event of Thursday, a 90-minute sitdown with Tucker Carlson, in which the Republican presidential nominee fantasised about the shooting of former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, a truly shocking moment.
Remember the post-Butler “new tone” we were promised in July?
In truth that was just one of several nasty attacks by Trump on his enemies, with personal insults dished out about Joe Biden, Adam Schiff and Hillary Clinton as Carlson sat there, variously chuckling obsequiously or blankly moon-faced.
We were also treated to warnings about election “cheating”, insane rants about crowd size, “the enemy within” and non-existent forced sex change operations.
Incredibly disturbing that this man, a twice-impeached convicted felon openly indulging violent revenge fantasises rather than offering coherent policy platforms for making people’s lives better, should be this close to the White House but here we are with four days to go.
James Liddell has this report.
Trump conjures up violent fantasy about Liz Cheney being shot at
‘Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her,’ Trump said of his most prominent GOP critic
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