Election 2024 live updates: Harris appears on SNL as shock new poll gives VP lead over Trump in Iowa
Harris and Trump are spending their weekends making their final pitches in the key battleground states
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Your support makes all the difference.Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live alongside host John Mulaney and musical guest Chappell Roan.
The vice president’s flight from Charlotte to Detroit was diverted to New York, and a few hours later she appeared in the cold open as the reflection of Maya Rudolph who impersonates Harris on the show.
Meanwhile, a shocking new poll out of Iowa, a state in which neither candidate has campaigned, has put the Democratic candidate three points ahead of Donald Trump — a 12-point swing against the Republican since the 2020 election.
The Des Moines Register observes that much of the shift to Harris from the former president comes from women and independents. Approximately 20 percent of the voters in the Republican Iowa caucus backed Nikki Haley over Trump.
Earlier today, the former president said that “women have to be protected when they're at home in suburbia” as he attempted to double down on his previous comment that he'd protect them “whether they like it or not.”
Some 70 million Americans have already voted early according to CNN. Both candidates spent Saturday in North Carolina keeping the focus on key battlegrounds as Election Day looms.
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’
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WSJ: Trump’s attention span is ‘too short’ to stage a real coup
Former president Donald Trump was “too undisciplined” in his first term and his “short” attention span kept him from remaining on message, The Wall Street Journal editorial board said in an op-ed on Thursday.
“Mr. Trump was too undisciplined, and his attention span too short, to stay on one message much less stage a coup,” the editorial board wrote.
For more than 95 years, WSJ has declined to formally endorse a presidential candidate but its editorial board released two op-eds this week on Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, laying out the pros and cons of each potential presidency.
Ariana Baio looks at what they said.
Trump’s attention span is ‘too short’ to stage a real coup, WSJ argues
Newspaper published op-eds criticizing and praising Trump and Harris instead of endorsing a canidate
Trump’s record of leaking intelligence and doubts over his new team have allies worried, experts say
Rhian Lubin writes:
ith days to go until America decides who will become the next president, there are concerns among some US allies over one of the most important aspects of their relationship with the world’s most powerful nation — intelligence sharing.
While a Kamala Harris presidency is expected to fit into a more predictable pattern of intelligence handling, security experts say some US allies have more “anxiety” about the alternative: Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
The Independent spoke to experts in intelligence, national security, and foreign policy from the UK, Australia, and Canada on the implications of a second Trump term. They all agree that the stakes couldn’t be higher – and suggest that the Republican candidate’s track record when it comes to leaking secret information is one of their causes for concern.
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Trump’s record of leaking intelligence and doubts over new team have allies worried
As the presidential race narrows, Rhian Lubin speaks to experts in intelligence, national security, and foreign policy from the UK, Australia, and Canada on the implications of a Trump second term
Court denies request to force count of votes for Green Party's Jill Stein in Ohio
Votes cast for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in Ohio will not be counted despite her name appearing on the state’s ballot in Tuesday’s election after an appeals court panel denied her motion seeking to force the election chief to tally them.
The three-judge panel on the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday against her request for an injunction targeting Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Friday in a dispute over the person listed as her running mate on the ballot.
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Court denies request to force count of votes for Green Party's Jill Stein in Ohio
Votes for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in Ohio will not be counted despite her name appearing on the ballot in Tuesday’s election
Watch: A brief history of female candidates for president
A history of female presidential candidates
Kamala Harris is only the second woman to be a major party's presidential candidate, following Hillary Clinton in 2016. But women have been trying to break this barrier for over a century. In 1872, Victoria Woodhull ran for president without the right to vote, and Belva Lockwood followed in the 1880s. By 1964, Margaret Chase Smith sought a major party nomination, and Shirley Chisholm became the first Black candidate to do so in 1972. In 2016, Clinton nearly became the first female president. Now, with Harris in the race, America might make history on November 5th.
Republicans claim Black men are deserting the Democratic Party. Is it even true?
John Bowden writes:
When election returns start coming in Tuesday evening, one group is certain to be in the spotlight: Black men.
For the past year, pollsters, pundits and political operatives have been hard at work spinning a narrative about Black voters, and younger men in particular. Those voters, many have warned, are increasingly turning away from the Democratic Party, which has enjoyed a massive advantage among Black voters for decades.
“Black men are rapidly abandoning the Democratic Party”, a triumphant headline declared on the website of the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) earlier this year. That assertion was backed up by a poll from the NAACP in August, which found that as many as one in four young black male voters were considering voting for Donald Trump.
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Republicans claim Black men are deserting the Democratic Party. Is it even true?
Even former President Barack Obama lectured Black men for not ‘feeling’ the idea of a woman as president
GOP 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.
Ariana Baio reports.
GOP has already raised $90m to help fund post-election legal fights
Former president spent millions in 2020 on legal challenges disputing election results
ICYMI: Trump launches profanity-laden attacks on Biden and Harris in sitdown with Carlson
Former President Donald Trump launched a profanity-laden attack on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, calling the president a “stupid bastard” and the vice president a “sleazebag.”
Trump made the comments on Thursday night during a sitdown event with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona.
Gustaf Kilander reports.
Trump launches profanity-laden attacks on Biden and Harris in sitdown with Carlson
Former president slams Democratic rival for suggestion attendees leave his rallies out of exhaustion and boredom
Ella and Cole Emhoff: What to know about Kamala Harris’s stepchildren
Vice President Kamala Harris was once called a “childless cat lady” by Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance — a claim that the childfree community, her husband’s ex-wife, and even Jennifer Aniston have slammed as sexist.
It’s also just plain wrong. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee actually has two step-children thanks to her husband Doug Emhoff, whom she wed in 2014. Emhoff had two children, Ella and Cole Emhoff, with his first wife, Kerstin — and the pair affectionately refer to Harris as their “momala.”
“For over 10 years since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I,” Kerstin Emhoff told CNN. “I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.”
Here is what you need to know about Harris’s family.
Who are Kamala Harris’s stepchildren?
The vice president isn’t a ‘childless cat lady’ — she’s ‘Momala’, according to her two stepkids
New Mexico mayor claims Trump still owes city for 2019 bill
During a campaign stop in New Mexico, Donald Trump used the final moments of the 2024 election to continue spreading false claims, telling voters the previous two presidential votes in the state were “rigged.”
Albuquerque officials, meanwhile, were worried about a different count: the roughly $445,000 they say the Trump campaign still owes for a 2019 visit.
Josh Marcus reports.
‘Half a million short’: Trump’s history of not paying cities for campaign stops
Cities across the country say Trump campaign owes them hundreds of thousands of dollars for events dating back as far as eight years
What happened to Trump’s first cabinet?
Donald Trump’s first stint as commander-in-chief between 2017 and 2021 was anything but smooth sailing, with firings and acrimonious departures as much a feature of his administration as it was central to his hit NBC reality show The Apprentice.
And, the years that followed have also been eventful for the most notable characters from his presidency.
Some have ended up in prison or criminally charged in connection to their involvement with the former president.
Few are still on speaking terms with him.
Now, with the election, and therefore a possible Trump second term, just days away, here’s a reminder of some of the key figures in Trump’s first administration – and where they are now:
Friend, foe or inmate: What happened to Trump’s first cabinet?
Few who served in his first administration are still on speaking terms with Trump – and some are openly hostile. Joe Sommerlad writes
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