With 10 days left Until Election Day, the race for the White House between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remains very close across the country. Battlefield States.
Candidates Harris, Trump and their surrogates have launched into the middle of the electoral campaign.
Singer Beyoncé Knowles, her former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland and country singer Willie Nelson all tried to use their star power to get Harris out the vote in Texas.
Meanwhile, Trump sat down with podcaster Joe Rogan for a three-hour interview. He then traveled to Michigan, where he spoke late to a crowd thinned out due to the delay.
What are the latest poll updates?
The latest national poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College October 20-23, 2024 showed Harris and Trump tied nationally at 48%. The remaining 4 percent are undecided.
Among likely votersHarris holds a 54 percent to 42 percent advantage over Trump. But the former president is making up for it among male voters with 55 percent support for Harris to 41 percent.
Harris received the most support from voters aged 18 to 29 with 55 percent to Trump’s 43 percent, while Trump leads 51 percent to 44 percent among voters aged 45 to 64.
What’s concerning to Harris is that 61 percent of those surveyed said the country is headed on the wrong path, while 27 percent said it is on the right track.
Meanwhile, poll tracker FiveThirtyEight, which averages several national polls, shows Harris maintaining a razor-thin lead of 48 percent, compared to Trump’s 46.6 percent. But its 1.4 percent lead is smaller than the 1.8 percent recorded earlier this week.
Although national surveys provide valuable information about voter sentiment, the ultimate winner will be decided by the Electoral College, which reflects the results in each state.
The seven key states that could determine the election are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Together, these states represent 93 – or a third – of the 270 electoral colleges required to win the election.
According to the latest FiveThirtyEight poll average, Trump has a 1 percent advantage in North Carolina and a 2 percent advantage in Arizona and Georgia. And there’s less than half a percentage point separating Harris and Trump in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with Trump leading slightly in Pennsylvania and Nevada, and Harris with a razor-thin advantage in Michigan and Wisconsin.
All results are within a margin of error and the outcome of the vote could swing one way or the other.
What was Kamala Harris doing on Friday?
Harris campaigned with musicians Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Willie Nelson in Houston, Texas.
During the stop, Harris emphasized her support for abortion rights as she sought to contrast Trump and win over female voters.
Texas has not supported a Democratic president since 1976, and Republican Trump is almost certain to win the state’s 40 Electoral College votes.
But Democrats are betting it will provide Harris with a powerful backdrop to talk about it. right to abortion in the last days before the November 5 elections. The state, led by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, has passed some of the strictest anti-abortion regulations in the country.
What was Donald Trump doing on Friday?
Trump was also campaigning in Texas on Friday, stopping in Austin to tape an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Rogan is arguably the most popular podcaster in the United States, with tens of millions of followers on social media, most of them men. Rogan’s podcast has 17.5 million subscribers on YouTube alone and 14 million on Spotify. The average age of its listeners is 24, according to Media Monitors.
In his interview with Rogan, Trump again suggested that he favors eliminating the income tax and replacing lost revenue with tariffs.
Trump then went to a rally in Traverse City, Michigan, where he discussed Harris’ struggles with the state’s large Arab-American population, which could determine the outcome of a very close race .
Trump leads Harris 45 to 43 percent among Arab Americans two weeks before the choice of the next American president, according to the Arab News/YouGov poll published Monday, large sections of the community are angry at the Biden administration, of which Harris is a part, for its unwavering support for Israel’s war on Gaza and Lebanon.
“Kamala is also in total free fall with Michigan’s Arab and Muslim population. It’s in free fall,” Trump said. “It sent their jobs overseas, brought crime to their cities, and tonight in the Middle East it’s like a tinderbox ready to explode. People are being killed at levels never seen before.
He also discussed Harris’ unlikely alliance with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who is campaigning for vice president. Cheney, who has a long-running feud with Trump, is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, a central figure in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. “And why would Muslims support Kamala when she kisses Liz Cheney, who hates Muslims? » Trump asked, addressing the crowd.
What’s next for the Harris and Trump campaigns?
Harris will campaign Saturday in the city of Kalamazoo, Michigan, alongside former first lady Michelle Obama.
The get-out-the-vote rally will be Michelle Obama’s first event on the Harris campaign trail.
Saturday is the first day of early voting statewide in Michigan.
Meanwhile, Trump is expected to hold several events in Pennsylvania on Saturday, but will start his day with a rally in Michigan.
Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, will make a campaign stop in Atlanta, Georgia, before traveling to Erie and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.