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US Early Voting Leader Named: What's Happening Around the Presidential Elections
Kamala Harris has a narrow lead over Donald Trump in state primaries, with little time left before polls close for the November 5 election, according to The Guardian.
With less than 48 hours to go until the US election, more than 77.6 million votes have already been cast. New polls show Kamala Harris leading early voters in swing states.
The Democratic nominee leads by 8 percentage points among those who have already voted, while her opponent, Donald Trump, leads among those who say they are likely to vote but have not yet done so. The New York Times-Siena College poll also found Harris slightly ahead in three swing states, with Trump leading in one and too close to winning in three others.
With just hours left in the campaign trail, Kamala Harris spoke in Michigan while her Republican opponent at a Pennsylvania rally complained about gaps in the bulletproof shields surrounding him and said he wouldn't worry about reporters being shot at if there was another assassination attempt on him.
“Someone would have to spread fake news to get to me, and I don’t really care,” the former US president said, adding that the press is “seriously corrupt.” Trump’s communications director explained in a statement that the comments were simply an attempt to look out for the media’s welfare.
The Trump campaign claimed that the NYT poll and Saturday's Selzer Iowa Poll for the Des Moines Register were aimed at suppressing Trump voter turnout by presenting a biased, bleak picture of Trump's reelection prospects. "No President has done more for FARMERS and the Great State of Iowa than Donald Trump," Trump wrote in a post on the social media site Truth.
In Pennsylvania, 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,” Trump reminded listeners.
At a rally in Macon, Georgia, Trump continued his anti-immigrant rhetoric and again proposed appointing Robert Kennedy Jr. to lead health policy. Trump told Kennedy, “You work on women’s health, you work on health, you work on what we eat.”
After Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proposed removing fluoride from drinking water on the first day of the new Trump administration, the former president appeared to endorse the idea. “Well, I haven’t talked to him about it yet, but I think it’s OK,” Trump told NBC News. “You know, it’s possible.”
Trump also spoke in Kinston, North Carolina, where he criticized Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate minority leader. “I hope we get rid of Mitch McConnell pretty soon,” Trump said. Republican voters in Kinston told the Guardian they were ready to fight a “stolen election.”
At her latest Michigan rally, Kamala Harris vowed to do everything she could to “end the war in Gaza” in an attempt to appeal to the state’s large Arab-American and Muslim populations. Michigan is home to about 240,000 registered Muslim voters, most of whom voted for Biden in 2020. However, Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans in the state have expressed dissatisfaction with the Democratic administration’s stance on Israel’s war in Gaza.
But Kamala Harris avoided answering a question about whether she voted for a controversial tough-on-crime measure that would make it easier for prosecutors to jail repeat offenders and drug addicts after she voted in California. Proposition 36 repeals provisions of Proposition 47 that make petty theft and drug possession misdemeanors.
At Michigan Institutional Church of God in Christ Greater Emmanuel in Detroit, Harris told congregants that God's plan is to "heal us and unite us as a nation," but they "must take action" to realize that plan.
The US government's communications regulator said Harris's appearance on Saturday Night Live violated "equal time" rules governing political programming. Brendan Carr, a spokesman for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said: "The purpose of this rule is to avoid exactly this kind of partisan and biased conduct - where a licensed broadcaster uses the public airwaves to influence one candidate before an election."
A federal judge has ruled that Iowa can continue to challenge the legality of hundreds of ballots cast by potential noncitizens. State officials are cracking down on illegal voting, but critics say it threatens the voting rights of people who only recently became U.S. citizens.
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