With less than 48 hours until the U.S. presidential election and more than 77.6 million votes already cast, Kamala Harris leads among early voters in the nation’s battleground states, according to the latest polls. .
The Democratic candidate has an 8 percentage point lead among those who have already voted, while his opponent, Donald Trump, leads among those who are very likely to vote but have not yet done so. A poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College found Harris with a slight lead in three battleground states, Trump with an edge in one, and the remaining three states inconclusive. .
With just hours left in the campaign, Harris was speaking in Michigan, while her Republican opponent used a rally in Pennsylvania to complain about gaps in the bulletproof shield surrounding her. He also suggested he was not worried about journalists being shot in the event of an assassination attempt. against him.
“Someone would have to shoot through the fake news to get me, but I don’t really care about that,” he said, adding that the press is “deeply corrupt people.” President Trump’s communications director said in a statement that the comment was likely an effort to care for the welfare of the news organization.
Here’s what else happened Sunday.
Donald Trump Presidential Election News and Updates
The Trump campaign said the NYT poll and Saturday’s Des Moines Register Selzer poll in Iowa were designed to suppress Trump’s turnout by presenting a skewed and bleak picture of Trump’s re-election prospects. He claimed that he was “No president has done more for farmers and the state of Iowa than Donald J. Trump,” Trump said in a post on his Truth social network.
In Pennsylvania, President Trump told supporters that he should have stayed in the White House despite losing the 2020 election. “The day I left, we had the most secure border in the history of our country,” President Trump said.
At a rally in Macon, Georgia, President Trump continued his anti-immigrant rhetoric and once again hinted that he would give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a role in health policy. Trump told Kennedy, “You’re working on women’s health. You’re working on health. You’re working on what we eat. You’re working on pesticides. You’re working on pesticides. is working on everything.”
After RFK Jr. proposed removing fluoride from drinking water on the first day of the new Trump administration, the former president appeared to approve of the idea. “We haven’t talked about it yet, but I think it’s okay for me,” Trump told NBC News. “You know, it’s possible.”
Trump also spoke in Kinston, North Carolina, where he criticized Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “I hope we get rid of Mitch McConnell immediately,” Trump said. Republican voters in Kinston told the Guardian they were ready to fight a “stolen election.”
Kamala Harris Election News and Updates
At her final rally in Michigan, Harris appealed to the state’s large Arab and Muslim-American population, pledging to do everything in her power to “end the war in Gaza.” There are approximately 240,000 Muslim voters registered in Michigan, the majority of whom voted for Biden in 2020. However, Arab and Muslim Americans in the state have expressed dissatisfaction with the administration’s stance on Israel’s war on Gaza.
After filing her ballot in California, Harris dodged a question about whether she had voted in favor of controversial hard-crime measures that make it easier for prosecutors to put shoplifters and drug users behind bars and jails. Ta. Prop. 36 would repeal the provisions of Prop. 47 that downgraded low-level theft and drug possession to misdemeanor crimes.
At Michigan’s Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Detroit, Harris told the congregation that God’s plan is to “heal us and unite us as a nation,” but to make that plan a reality, “we must act.” It must be done,” he said.
Elsewhere in the campaign
U.S. government communications regulators argued that Harris’ appearance on Saturday Night Live violated “equal time” rules governing political programming. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr said, “The purpose of this rule is to prevent exactly this type of biased and partisan behavior, in which a licensed broadcaster uses eve events to influence one candidate. “Avoid using public radio waves.” About elections. ”
Iowa can continue to challenge the validity of hundreds of votes from people who may be non-citizens, a federal judge has ruled. The state is targeting illegal voting, but critics say the effort threatens the voting rights of people who have recently become U.S. citizens.
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