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According to The Guardian, Kamala Harris is slightly ahead of Donald Trump in the state primaries, with little time left before the polls scheduled to close on November 5.
Less than 48 hours before the US election, more than 77.6 million votes have been cast. New polls show Kamala Harris leading among 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. The New York Times-Siena College poll also showed Harris with a narrow lead in three swing states, with Trump leading in one and coming up short in three others.
Just hours before the election, Kamala Harris spoke in Michigan while her Republican opponent at a rally in Pennsylvania complained about gaps in the bulletproof shields surrounding him and said he would not worry about reporters being shot at if there was another attempt on him.
“Someone would have to spread fake news to get through to me, and I don’t particularly care,” the former US president said, adding that the press is “seriously corrupt”. Trump’s communications director said in a statement that the comments were simply an attempt to look after the media.
The Trump campaign argued that the NYT poll and Saturday’s Selzer Iowa poll for the Des Moines Register were intended to suppress Trump’s voter turnout by painting 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 his audience.
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 seemed to approve the idea. “Well, I haven’t talked to him about it yet, but I think he’s OK with that,” Trump told NBC News. “You know, it’s possible.”
Trump also spoke in Kinston, North Carolina, where he criticized Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader. “I hope we get rid of Mitch McConnell soon,” Trump said. Republican voters in Kinston told The Guardian they were ready to fight a “stolen election.”
At her latest rally in Michigan, Kamala Harris promised to do whatever it takes to “end the war in Gaza,” trying to appeal to the state’s large Arab-American and Muslim population. There are about 240,000 registered Muslim voters in Michigan, 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.
Kamala Harris, however, dodged a question about whether she voted for a controversial anti-crime measure that, following her vote in California, would make it easier for prosecutors to incarcerate repeat offenders and drug users. Proposition 36 repeals provisions of Proposition 47 that made petty theft and drug possession misdemeanors.
At the Greater Emmanuel Michigan Institutional Church of God in Christ in Detroit, Harris told worshippers that God’s plan is “to heal us and unify us as a nation” but that “they must act” to implement that plan.
The US government's communications regulator said Harris' appearance on Saturday Night Live violated "equal time" rules for political programming. Brendan Carr, a spokesman for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said: "The purpose of this rule is to prevent exactly this type of partisan and biased behavior - when 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 validity of hundreds of ballots cast by would-be 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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