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With less than two weeks to go until the election, polls show the race is still a coin-flip.

Donald Trump has gained momentum in the last week, but Harris is still a slither ahead nationwide.

If you are just catching up, here are some of the big stories you may have missed today:

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter in Greensboro, North Carolina for DailyMail.com

Former Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announced she is joining the Republican party Tuesday night.

Taking the stage before thousands in Greensboro, Gabbard cemented her conversion from Democrat to Republican.

‘It is because of my love for our country and specifically because of the leadership that President Trump has brought to transform the Republican Party that I’m proud to stand here with you today and announce that I’m joining the Republican Party.’

In 2022, she announced she was leaving the Democratic party to become an Independent.

Regaining control of the mic after Gabbard’s announcement, Trump said he was stunned by the announcement, which he had not known was coming.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Kamala Harris dodged on whether she would consider pardoning Donald Trump if she is promoted to the presidency.

The vice president told NBC’s Hallie Jackson in an interview Tuesday night:

The former president is still facing multiple criminal cases – one for election subversion in Georgia, one for election interference on the federal level and one for removing classified documents from the White House after his term in office.

Trump made history in March when he was the first U.S. president ever to be convicted of a felony in the Manhattan hush money trial.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is tearing into his 2024 Democratic challenger after a man was hit in the arm with shrapnel from an AR-15 round during his shooting range campaign event on Tuesday.

A bullet fragment struck television reporter Ryan Gamboa while he was at the range reporting on the campaign event for Senate candidate Lucas Kunce.

The Democrat was holding the event with former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger before he had to provide aid to the journalist with KSHB-TV. Kunce was pictured bandaging Gamboa’s bloody arm.

‘Great day at the range today with my friend Adam Kinzinger,’ Kunce wrote to X. ‘We got to hang out with some union workers while exercising our freedom.’

‘Always have your first aid kit handy,’ he continued in the post. ‘Shrapnel can always fly when you hit a target like today, and you’ve got to be ready to go. We had four first aid kits, so we were able to take care of the situation, and I’m glad Ryan is okay and was able to continue reporting.’

But Sen. Hawley didn’t let the opportunity slip to attack the man trying to take his seat in the election in just 14 days.

‘When liberals play with guns, people get hurt,’ he wrote on X, adding a clown emoji.

He questioned in another post on Tuesday evening: ‘Will the reporter Kunce shot be pressing charges?’

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter in Greensboro, North Carolina for DailyMail.com

Donald Trump shockingly questioned if Vice President Kamala Harris was on drugs or drunk during her ‘edited’ ’60 Minutes’ interview Tuesday.

Speaking to a humming crowd at the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina, the former president gave a wide-ranging address where he touted his policy agenda and slammed foes Kamala Harris and Barack Obama.

When bringing up Harris – who gave an interview to NBC News about the same time he took the stage in Greensboro – Trump wondered what led to such a ‘bad’ media appearance.

And he speculated that drugs and alcohol could be to blame.

Fans of Donald Trump are suggesting the E Coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s is a conspiracy theory against the former president.

One American has died and dozens more are sick amid an outbreak of E Coli linked to the quarter pounder at the Golden Arches.

Now, the MAGA faithful are suggesting its a way to stitch up Trump after his Sunday spent manning the fry cooker at a Pennsylvania Mickey D’s.

‘Totally not suspicious,’ wrote on pro-Trump social media user on Elon Musk’s X Tuesday.

Another exclaimed: ‘Give me a break! The timing on this is so ridiculously obvious!’

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon privately backs Kamala Harris for president, a New York Times investigation has revealed.

The chief executive has reportedly not made his stance known publicly because he is afraid that Donald Trump will retaliate against people and companies who opposed his run if he is elected next month.

Dimon, who is a registered Democrat, has been uncharacteristically quiet about his political leanings in recent months.

This had led some watchers to speculate whether he had switched his allegiance to the Republican candidate.

In January, he faced fierce backlash after he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Trump had been ‘kind of right’ about some economic issues such as tax cuts.

Kamala Harris’ West Wing office is less than a mile from her father’s Washington, D.C. home.

But they could not be further apart.

Despite the proximity between father and world-famous daughter, there is no record of Donald, 86, ever having visited her in the White House.

His name does not appear in any of the publicly available visitor logs from her three-and-a-half years in office. Nor are there any recent public photographs of the pair together.

It is possible that the VP has privately hosted her father in her government-provided home – at the United States Naval Observatory in DC – where visitor records are not public.

But it is perhaps more likely that Donald Harris has kept a deliberate distance, determined to stay away from what he has described as the ‘political hullabaloo’ surrounding his daughter, whose controversial comments he once criticized as ‘a travesty’.

For her part, VP Harris has previously described their relationship as ‘not close’.

So just who is Donald Harris?

Eminem is introducing Barack Obama at a campaign rally in Detroit on Tuesday night in support of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

The rapper will not perform, but will give his thoughts on the race before he welcomes the former president to the stage.

Eminem isn’t known for his public appearances, but he will take center stage in the political arena in a key state that could decide the election.

Donald Trump’s campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt has called for a response from Kamala Harris’ campaign on President Joe Biden’s slip in New Hampshire on Tuesday night.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter in Greensboro, North Carolina for DailyMail.com

Donald Trump fired back at Barack Obama after the younger former president called the elder former president ‘old’ and ‘loony.’

‘But he’s looking a little bit older, isn’t he?’ Trump asked about Obama, who he said looks ‘exhausted’ after stumping for Kamala Harris.

He also called Obama a ‘jerk’ and ‘divider.’

‘There are questions about his competence.’ Obama said this week. ‘You’d be worried if grandpa were acting like this.’

‘So Wisconsin, we do not need to see what an older, loonier Donald Trump looks like with no guardrails. America is ready to turn the page,’ he said at an event with Tim Walz.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter in Greensboro, North Carolina for DailyMail.com

Donald Trump has taken the stage at his campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina just as his opponent Kamala Harris’s interview with NBC News aired.

The ex-president started off his rally by ripping into Harris as ‘the worst vice president’ the country has ever had.

He slammed Harris for her border and economic policies before noting his surprise at how she recently said she would have not done anything differently in the last four years.

Trump also called Harris ‘the taxing queen’ saying she wants the ‘largest tax anybody’s had to pay.’

Harris meanwhile, was pressed on transgender surgeries and her plan to combat Trump should he declare victory too early on Election Day.

‘We DON’T take days off. We gotta WIN this thing,’ he said to loud applause from his supporters.

He slammed Harris earlier in the day for ‘taking off’ from the campaign trail before her interview with NBC’s Hallie Jackson, which just aired.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter in Greensboro, North Carolina for DailyMail.com

Republicans are going all-in against transgender issues ahead of the November 5 election, betting big bucks that voters will be energized by the ‘culture war’ fight.

With just 14 days to go to Election Day, the GOP has put tens of millions of dollars behind ads slamming Democrats for supporting pro-trans policies.

They’re betting big that this niche issue will fire up the voter base and help Republicans in down-ballot races.

That includes the extremely tight race for control of the House, apart by only four seats currently, and the Senate – that the GOP wants to flip red.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump is leading Kamala Harris in the swing state of Arizona.

The vice president is starting to lag with younger voters in the battleground southwest state where some who say they will vote for other Democratic candidates in November will not cast their ballots for Harris.

Those voters aged 18 through 29 are voting for Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego over Republican candidate Kari Lake 58 percent to 28 percent. But the same voting bloc has Harris ahead of Trump by only 9 points.

There are only two weeks for candidates to win over voters.

During her NBC interview Kamala Harris suggested that there had been no war in Europe for 70 years.

She was defending Joe Biden and cited his handling of the war in Ukraine.

Harris said:

In the 1990s an estimated 100,000 people were killed and two million displaced in Europe during the Bosnian War.

President Joe Biden sparked fury Tuesday night by suggesting Donald Trump should be in jail just 14 days out from the presidential election.

‘We gotta lock him up’, the 81-year-old president said at event in New Hampshire.

Biden appeared to realize what he said, and tried to correct himself by saying ‘we need to politically lock him up. Lock him out. That’s what we have to do.’

It comes after Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris takes care to try to shut down ‘lock him up’ chants that have popped up at her campaign rallies.

Former President Barack Obama came out to support Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin Tuesday but at least one rally-goer was looking to turn back time.

‘I miss you,’ the Madison rally attendee shouted at the former Democratic two-term commander in chief.

‘I miss you, too,’ Obama replied before returning to firing up the crowd in support of Harris with a blistering attack against her rival, former President Donald Trump, over the economy.

Obama accused Trump of taking credit for an economy that he built during his eight years in office leading up to the Trump presidency.

Obama was appearing at a rally in Madison alongside Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz when he put Trump on blast.

‘I’ve talked to some folks, and they’ll say, “Yeah, but you know, I do remember the economy was pretty god when Trump first came into office,”‘ Obama said. ‘And I said “yeah, because it was my economy.”

Vice President Kamala Harris pushed back on President Biden not up for the job during her interview on NBC News.

Hallie Jackson referenced Biden’s disastrous June debate performance and asked the Democratic presidential nominee if she had seen ‘anything like what happened at the debate night behind closed doors?’

But Harris rejected that saying ‘it was a bad debate. People have bad debates.’

The vice president said she is now running for president: ‘Joe Biden is not.’

She argued her presidency will be about ‘bringing a new generation of leadership to America.’

Harris also said she worked with Biden for ‘hours and hours’ over four years in the situation room to the Oval Office.

‘Joe Biden is the one who was able to bring NATO together during a crisis where, for the first time in 70 years, Europe saw and has seen war. Joe Biden has done the work that has been about being a leader on what we have done to fix so much of what has been broken in terms of the economy because of Donald Trump’s mismanagement,’ she said.

The vice president said she speaks ‘with not only sincerity, but with real first-hand account of watching him do this work.’

Vice President Kamala Harris was asked by NBC’s Hallie Jackson why she doesn’t lean in more to the history-making nature of her candidacy.

Harris would be the country’s first female president and the first female president of color.

‘Well, I’m clearly a woman. I don’t need to point that out to anyone,’ she answered.

‘The point that most people really care about is can you do the job? And do you have a plan to actually focus on them?’ the Democratic nominee added.

Vice President Kamala Harris tried to explain her position on transgender surgeries on Tuesday evening, saying it should be up to doctors to make those decisions, not the goverment.

‘I believe that people, as the law states, even on this issue, about federal law that that is a decision that doctors will make in terms of what is medically necessary,’ she said. ‘I’m not going to put myself in the position of a doctor.’

Harris explained her position on transgender surgeries, after NBC anchor Hallie Jackson questioned her about former President Donald Trump’s campaign advertising against Harris for supporting it.

Democratic vice presidential hopeful, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, mocked Elon Musk for dancing like a ‘dips***’ during a raucous rally Tuesday alongside former President Barack Obama.

Walz and Obama appeared together in the college town of Madison, Wisconsin, for the state’s first day of early voting, with just two weeks to go until Election Day.

The Minnesota governor recalled how Musk – who endorsed former President Donald Trump immediately after the July 13 assassination attempt – joined the Republican nominee at his second Butler, Pennsylvania rally this month.

‘Elon was on that stage jumping around, skipping like a dips***,’ Walz said. ‘That guy is literally the richest man in the world, spending millions of dollars to help Donald Trump buy an election.’

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has donated a whopping $50 million of his fortune to a nonprofit supporting Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Gates has traditionally shied away from being this involved in politics, though has expressed fears of what a second term of former President Donald Trump would look like.

Vice President Kamala Harris said she would be prepared if former President Donald Trump declared victory before all the votes were counted:

Harris spoke about her plan during an interview aired Tuesday with NBC’s Hallie Jackson:

JACKSON: We are sitting here two weeks away from election night. Last election, the former president came out on election night and declared victory before all the votes were counted. What is your plan if he does that again in two weeks?

HARRIS: Well, let me say this, we’ve got two weeks to go, and I’m very much grounded in the present in terms of the task at hand, and we will deal with election night and the days after, as they come, and we have the resources and the expertise and the focus on that as well.

JACKSON: So you have teams ready to go. Is that what you’re saying? Are you thinking about that as a possibility?

HARRIS: Of course. This is a person, Donald Trump, who tried to undo the, a free and fair election, who still denies the will of the people, who incited a violent mob to attack the United States Capitol and 140 law enforcement officers were attacked. Some – were killed. This is a serious matter. The American people are, at this point, two weeks out, being presented with a very, very serious decision about what will be the future of our country.

Barack Obama questioned Donald Trump’s health at a campaign event for Kamala Harris on Tuesday, telling voters ‘you’d be worried if grandpa was acting like this.’

The former president took repeated aim at the Republican nominee, questioning his fitness for office, during a rally in Madison, Wis.

Obama pointed to Trump’s town hall with South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem last week, where the former president spent the last 40 minutes of it playing music and bobbing his head to it as he stood on the stage.

‘You’d be worried if grandpa was acting like this,’ Obama said.

‘You’d call up your brother, you call up your cousins. You say, have you noticed? But this is coming from somebody who wants unchecked power. So Wisconsin, we do not need to see what an older, loonier Donald Trump looks like with no guard rails, America is ready to turn the page.’

VP Kamala Harris is sitting down with NBC for an interview that is airing at 6:30 pm.

In a clip released early, she reveals what her campaign’s strategy is if Trump claims voter fraud this election.

On Tuesday night, Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris will sit down with NBC reporter Hallie Jackson for her first interview with the network since she became the Democratic nominee.

Viewers from all around the country will be watching in suspense as Jackson speaks with Vice President Harris from the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. just two weeks before election day.

In addition to a sit-down interview, the network also announced that senior Washington correspondent Jackson will have ‘exclusive access during Harris’s campaign stops in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin’ on Monday.

With the interview set to air Tuesday night at 6:30 pm ET, it will leave plenty of voters earnestly awaiting her appearance, as DailyMail.com’s election model currently gives Donald Trump a 65.9 per cent chance of winning.

But as both Republican and Democratic viewers tune in on Tuesday, they may be left wondering more about Jackson, the NBC anchor who is interviewing Harris.

Donald Trump is escalating his battle against CBS over its ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris, with his lawyer sending a letter demanding the network release a transcript of its interview with his rival.

Days after the interview aired, Trump accuses the program of ‘doctoring’ the interview to excise a word salad answer about Israel.

Now Trump, who has a long history of filing lawsuits against media organizations (a judge early this year ordered him to pay $400,000 in legal fees to the New York Times), now is raising doubts about the printed transcript the network released.

Millions of people have already cast ballots in the 2024 election as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump make their final pitches to voters across the country with just two weeks go before Election Day.

While multiple states are breaking records with early voting, there has been a shift from when voters headed to the polls in the 2020 presidential election.

More than 18 million people have already voted in the 2024 election, according to tracking by the University of Florida Election Lab.

That includes nearly seven million who voted early in-person and more than 11.6 million ballots which have already been returned by mail.

Here’s what it means:

Kari Lake’s campaign office in Phoenix, Arizona, was evacuated Tuesday after an intern opened an envelope containing a suspicious susbstance.

Lake, who is running for Senate, issued a statement condemning opponents who have stepped up attacks on her but thanks hazmat teams who attended the scene.

From Jon Michael Raasch for DailyMail.com in Greensboro, North Carolina:

A new poll shows the presidential race in North Carolina in dead heat with Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by one point in the battleground state.

Harris has 47 percent among registered voters while Trump has 46 points, according to the poll by High Point University.

Six percent said they are undecided with two weeks to go before Election Day.

More than 1.3 million people have already voted early in person or by mail in the state.

With exactly two weeks before Election Day, Usha Vance just gave Americans the most personal peak into her life since her husband, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, was tapped as Donald Trump‘s running mate.

And the rare insight has come to light through the books the aspiring second lady totes around on the campaign trail.

The Yale Law-grad mother of three has been a regular presence on the campaign trail since her husband, himself the best-selling author of Hillbilly Elegy, was asked to join the ticket by Trump in July.

Photos of Usha, in fact, always seem to capture her walking around with one or more books, be it Daniel Mason’s ‘North Woods,’ Tana French’s ‘In the Woods’ or a copy of ‘The Iliad.’

Steve Bannon , former chief strategist to Donald Trump , found out Tuesday he will not be released early from his four-month prison sentence.

He is due to be freed next week from federal prison in Connecticut .

However, his lawyers filed a request saying that he had accrued 10 days worth of First Step Act credits, (under Trump-era criminal justice reform) which meant he should have been released to home confinement on Saturday,

‘There is no reason for Mr. Bannon to remain in prison despite earning those credits,’ his lawyers say. ‘The Court should grant Mr. Bannon’s motion and order him released immediately.’

Judge Carl Nichols, sitting in Washington, D.C., issued his ruling Tuesday, writing, ‘the Court concludes that the relief the Defendant seeks is not warranted.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Tim Walz savagely attacked Donald Trump during a campaign appearance in Wisconsin, mocking the former president for working at a McDonalds over the weekend.

The Democratic vice-presidential nominee also threw some zingers at J.D. Vance and Elon Musk in his remarks.

But Trump got the brunt of his attacks.

Walz, who was in Madison with Barack Obama for the first day of early voting in the state, focused on Trump working in a McDonalds in Pennsylvania on Sunday. Trump was there to promote his claim that Kamala Harris really didn’t work at the fast food outlet as a teenager.

‘He went to a McDonald’s and dressed up as the drive-through worker. They found him an apron his size and put it on him,’ the Minnesota governor said. ‘And I was thinking, “It is possible he mixed up his weekends and thought that it was Halloween already?”‘

‘He’s been forgetting things lately, as you might have noticed,’ Walz said of the 78-year-old Trump.

‘There’s something not just nuts but cruel about a billionaire using people’s livelihood as a political prop,’ Walz added.

He also mocked Trump, saying he looked like Ronald McDonald.

‘He looks much more like Ronald McDonald than the clown that he actually is. And Ronald wears less makeup,’ Walz said as the audience screamed in applause.

He also accused Trump of holding a ‘stunt,’ claiming the restaurant wasn’t really open.

‘That restaurant wasn’t even open. It was a stunt, fake orders for fake customers. They even staged the drive-through. We know that they won’t let you walk through, the d*** drive through,’ he said.

‘Everything about this guy is fake. Everything he does is fake. Next he is going to be telling you he’s a cop or a construction worker because he dances to the Village People.’

‘And I’ll tell you this, though, that five minutes he stood next to the deep fryer, I’ll guarantee you, that’s the hardest that guy’s ever worked in his life. And that’s not a joke,’ Walz said.

He then turned his fire to Musk, the owner of X and Tesla.

He pointed to Musk campaigning with Trump on Pennsylvania and said: ‘Elon was on that stage jumping around skipping like a dips***. That guy is literally the richest man in the world, spending millions of dollars to help Donald Trump buy an election.’

The Trump campaign has complained to the Federal Election Commission over British volunteers from the leftwing Labour Party traveling to the U.S. in support of Kamala Harris.

Foreign volunteers are exempt from laws against overseas campaign contributions and legal scholars doubt the Trump campaign has much of a case.

However, that hasn’t stopped team Trump accusing its opposition of benefiting from ‘illegal foreign campaign contributions and interference in our elections.’ As Trump-Vance Campaign Co-Manager Susie Wiles said:

A federal judge has ordered former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to hand over his New York City penthouse apartment to election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss to satisfy part of the award in their $150 million defamation suit.

The former Donald Trump lawyer has seven days to hand over the property, while also handing over gifted watches, a signed Joe DiMaggio jersey, his TV, and jewelry, under an order by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis J. Liman.

Giuliani slashed the asking price for the Upper East Side apartment to $5.7 million in May, while facing fines and ongoing legal pressure.

A jury ordered the stunning $150 million award in December, after deciding he defamed the women during Trump’s election overturn effort in Georgia, and that he must pay them for emotional distress and suffer punitive damages.

From Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent

Two Democratic senators facing reelection in battleground states are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into adverts that play up their support for Donald Trump and his policies, according to an exclusive analysis of broadcast data.

It suggests they are trying to win over Trump supporters to hold their seats, even if it undermines Kamala Harris ‘ campaign.

In key counties in Pennsylvania , Sen. Bob Casey has shifted the bulk of his TV advertising to a 30-second spot entitled ‘Independent’ that features a married couple comprising a Republican and Democrat explaining how he ‘ bucked Biden to protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China.’

And in Wisconsin, Sen. Tammy Baldwin has made a similar move with an ad that emphasizes how she worked with Trump on ensuring U.S. iron and steel is used in infrastructure projects.

Between them, they spent $650,000 on those two ads in the four days up to Monday, according to an analysis of data collected by AdImpact which monitors election advertising.

Donald Trump will appear on Joe Rogan’s popular podcast on Friday for a highly-anticipated interview less than two weeks to Election Day.

The interview will be filmed in Austin, Texas, at Rogan’s studio and air in the coming days, Politico reported.

Trump has never appeared on his podcast, which boasts over 14 million subscribers on Spotify and is one of the most influential platforms in media.

He has sparred with Rogan recently, after the host suggested that he would back RFK Jr. over Trump or Harris in the election.

It puts more pressure on Kamala Harris to also appear on Rogan’s podcast. There have reportedly been talks between the two camps to get the VP on the show, but nothing has been finalized.

Trump has done several podcasts in recent weeks as he works to shore up the male vote nationwide.

Trump also appeared on Theo Vaughn’s popular show and the Full Send podcast hosted by the Nelk Boys.

Meanwhile, Kamala has appeared on Call Her Daddy, The Shade Room podcast and NBA podcast All the Smoke.

During an appearance on the Nelk Boys’ ‘Full Send’ podcast, host Kyle Forgeard, 30, asked the Republican presidential nominee if he would go on Rogan’s podcast if he were invited.

‘Oh, sure I would,’ Trump, 78, said in a clip posted on Instagram. ‘I mean, I think I’m doing it, actually.’

In 2022, Rogan, 57, was adamant about never having Trump on his ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ because he did not want to help the Republican party‘s campaign.

During an interview with Lex Fridman that year, Rogan said he turned down multiple offers to have Trump on his podcast.

‘I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form. I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once – I’ve said no, every time,’ Rogan said.

He added: ‘I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him.’

Now, the comedian and UFC commentator has a different perspective.

Since he shut down the idea two years ago, Rogan has dropped several hints about Trump coming on for a show.

In an episode of his podcast with guest Patrick Bet-David last August, Rogan was asked when he would have Trump on. He responded ‘I don’t know,’ which was not a definite refusal.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, published findings of an investigation into Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue.

Tucked away in the far northwest corner of country just before the cliffs drop off into the Pacific Ocean lies America’s last true bellwether county.

A decidedly purple place, the small, rural region of Clallam County in Washington boasts an unmatched record of voting for every presidential election winner since Ronald Reagan in 1980.

This is the longest success streak of any of America’s 3,143 counties.

Now all eyes are on this unassuming county once again to see which way the wind is blowing for 2024, as vice president Kamala Harrisfaces off against former president Donald Trump in a divisive, neck and neck race.

A staggering number of voters thinks the United States is on the wrong track, a new Reuters-Ipsos poll found two weeks before the election.

The poll also found Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are essentially in a dead heat. Harris had 46% of the vote to Trump’s 43% but the numbers are within the margin of error.

Of more concern is that the poll shows voters are pessimistic than ever about the state of the economy and immigration – and they favor Trump’s approaches to fixing both.

About 70% of registered voters in the poll said their cost of living was on the wrong track, while 60% said the economy was heading in the wrong direction and 65% said the same of immigration policy.

Asked which candidate had the better approach on the issues, Trump led on the economy – 46% to 38% – and on immigration by 48% to 35%.

New plagiarism accusations have surfaced against Vice President Kamala Harris for testimony she delivered as a U.S. senator.

Harris allegedly lifted text ‘verbatim’ from a former colleague for use in written congressional testimony she gave in 2007, according to an analysis by the Washington Free Beacon.

Harris testified in support of the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007, a bill that would help pay student loans for state and federal prosecutors to keep talented lawyers in the profession.

Harris’ interest in the proposal was personal, as she spent her early years as a career prosecutor before she ran for political office.

But her written statement in support of the proposal sent to the House Judiciary Committee was not tailored to her own experience.

It rather reflected nearly verbatim text sent by District Attorney Paul Logli of Winnebago County, Illinois, a Republican, in support of the bill.

Early voting in South Carolina is smashing records, continuing a trend across states for early voting.

About 125,900 people cast ballots on the first day of early voting on Monday, according to the State Election Commission.

That’s a massive jump from the previous one-day early voting record set in 2022 when just 70,100 people cast ballots.

‘We are thrilled to see voters embracing the convenience of early voting, and we are anticipating a significant turnout for this election,’ said Howie Knapp, Executive Director of the State Election Commission.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have set their sights on Pennsylvania as key to victory in the presidential election. But it is not their only path to the White House.

Last week, Harris visited the state twice with campaign events in Erie and Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. Trump campaigned in Oaks, Pennsylvania, and Latrobe outside Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania with its nineteen electoral votes is the biggest of the seven battleground states that could swing either way and decide the election.

And the latest polling is showing the race in a dead heat in the crucial swing state, with Trump up just half a point in the Real Clear Politics average.

While the path forward to the necessary 270 electoral votes becomes much more complicated without Pennsylvania, it does not mean the race is over for either Trump or Harris.

Ahead of the 2024 Presidential election, see how Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are really faring among voters with DailyMail.com’s brilliant poll tracker.

Readers can view who is winning the head-to-head race as well as the situation in the battleground states that will ultimately decide who gets into the White House.

All of the data used in our analysis comes from Harris versus Trump polls collated by DailyMail.com’s pollsters J.L. Partners and FiveThirtyEight.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Bruce Springsteen will hit the campaign trail for Kamala Harris for the first time.

He will join Harris and Barack Obama in Atlanta on Thursday when the duo campaigns together for the first time.

He’ll also join Obama at a rally in Philadelphia on Monday.

More dates with the rock star are to come, the Harris campaign said.

The 75-year-old rocker endorsed Harris earlier this month, calling Donald Trump ‘the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime.’

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter:

Vice President Kamala Harris will head to Texas on Friday to highlight the state’s abortion ban as she makes the case for what’s at stake in the election.

During her visit she will give remarks on the consequences of abortion bans on women’s lives, according to a senior campaign official.

She will make the stop in Houston where she will be joined by Democratic Texas Senate candidate Colin Allred who is in a race against Republican Senator Ted Cruz.

She will also do the Brene Brown podcast while in the state.

Her visit to the state to discuss abortion comes after an analysis by the Gender Equity Policy Institute found the maternal morality cases skyrocketed 56 percent following the state’s abortion ban.

It comes after Harris was in Atlanta on Saturday where she was joined by the family of Amber Thurman. 28-year-old Thurman died after she was unable to get care in the state likely due to its abortion ban.

Polling shows Trump leading Harris by nearly six points in Texas, but the state is seen as one of Democrats’ best chances of picking up a Senate seat. The average of polling in the Senate race shows Cruz leading by less than five points.

Harris will be heading to Georgia ahead of her Texas visit on Friday. On Saturday, she goes to Michigan. She will return to Pennsylvania on Sunday.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

Donald Trump started his summit with Latino voters with an attack and an awkward flub.

First, Trump slammed his rival, who has no public events on her schedule but who held three events yesterday.

‘She’s sleeping right now. She couldn’t go on the trail. You would think when you had 14 days left she wouldn’t be sleeping,’ Trump said. He accused her of ‘taking a day off’ and said ‘this is not what you want.’

Then he ran through introductions at his Doral golf club he praised local officials.

‘I want to thank all of the representatives from the Doral area, because the mayor and everybody. Where’s Christy?’ Trump asked. The official immediately to his left then tapped him to let him know she was right there. It was Doral Mayor Christi Fraga.

‘Oh, my Christie,’ Trump responded, suddenly realizing she was right next to him. ‘You’ve been so great, and we’ve worked together for a long time,’ Trump said.

by Emily Goodin, Senior White House Correspondent

Eminem will introduce Barack Obama at a campaign rally in Detroit on Tuesday night in support of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

The rapper will not perform, CNN reported, but will give his thoughts on the race before he welcomes the former president to the stage.

Eminem isn’t known for his public appearances, but he will take center stage in the political arena in a key state that could decide the election.

He has been a vocal critic of Donald Trump, even saying he would leave the country if Trump wins this November.

Among his many attacks on the former president, the rapper has accused Trump of ‘brainwashing’ his supporters and of being a ‘racist.’

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump along with their allies have now spent more than half a billion on advertising in Pennsylvania as the battleground state is crucial on their path to the White House.

At $538 million, it’s more than any other swing state by at least $185 million, according to tracking by AdImpact. The state coming in second is Michigan with $353 million in ad spending.

It comes as the Real Clear Politics average of polls shows Trump up by less than a point in the Keystone State.

Harris campaigned in the suburbs of Philadelphia on Monday with Liz Cheney and will be returning to the state Wednesday for a town hall and again on Sunday.

Trump spent the weekend in the state with multiple stops.

According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, top candidates and their running mates have visited the state 76 times since January and 90 times including when President Biden was the nominee.

Trump has made 25 stops in the state through Monday while Harris has made 24 stops with more scheduled.

The FBI confirmed that it is investigating a very serious security breach after classified documents were leaked.

The agency said in a statement to DailyMail.com:

Election Day

November 5

Early voting

Has begun

Polls open

7am ET

Poll close

7pm ET

Presidential electoral votes

16 awarded to statewide winner.

First votes reported, Nov. 3, 2020: 7:20pm ET

By midnight ET: about 77% of total votes cast were reported.

Georgia voters are once again expected to play a pivotal role in the presidential election on Nov. 5, even as many are focuing on recovering and rebuilding from the devastating effects of Hurrican Helene.

Both Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump have visited Georgia in recent weeks to survey the damage and meet with affected residents and local officials. The exact magnitude of Helene´s impact on the election, including on the state´s voting infrastructure, is difficult to assess and won´t likely be fully understood until after Election Day.

Georgia nonetheless remains one of the top prizes in the presidential election. The state played a key role in 2020, when Joe Biden became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since Bill Clinton in 1992. Biden defeated Trump in Georgia by less than a quarter of a percentage point, a margin of 11,779 votes.

Trump´s efforts to overturn those results are at the heart of an ongoing criminla case in Fulton County, although it´s currently on hold while the former president´s legal team pursues a pre-trial appeal to have District Attorney Fani Willis removed from the case and the indictment tossed.

The Georgia Court of Appeals will hear those arguments after the election. Willis is seeking another term as Fulton County´s top prosecutor and will appear on the November ballot, facing Republican attorney Courtney Kramer.

Georgia´s governor and U.S. senators are not up for election this year, while all 14 U.S. House seats are not considered competitive. In the state Legislature, where Republicans control both chambers, all 56 state Senate and 180 state House seats are up for election. Democrats hope to chip away at the Republican majorities but have not listed the Georgia Legislature as a top target in November, as they have in a handful of other states.

Georgia state law allows county elections officials to begin tabulating mail ballots at 7 a.m. on Election Day. As a result, the first votes reported on election night will include much of these mail ballots as well as early in-person votes.

Overall, these ballots have tended to favor Democrats, ever since the issue of early and mail voting became highly politicized during the 2020 election. This suggests that the Democratic candidate in a competitive contest could take an early lead in the vote count in the initial vote reports after polls close, even though the race may tighten considerably as more votes are tabulated.

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Fewer than three in 10 men in Georgia say they will vote for Kamala Harris in the election, a new poll shows.

The final Atlanta Journal-Constitution/University of Georgia survey of the campaign shows the Democrat is still underwater with male voters despite a push to connect from her campaign.

Georgia is a swing state that could be the turning point for either candidate on their path to winning the White House.

There are 16 electoral college votes at stake.

Donald Trump has made the grab for the male vote central to his campaign, with multiple appearances on so-called ‘bro’ podcasts and trips to college football and NFL games.

Just 28 percent of men back Harris, compared to 59 percent who back Trump, according to the poll of 1,000 likely voters.

In addition, the vice president only has a 29 percent job approval among men. Her disapproval rating stands at 59 percent.

Donald Trump has extended his lead over Kamala Harris in election betting odds.

According to ElectionBettingOdds.com, which takes the average of five betting sites, Trump has a 60 percent chance of winning.

Kamala Harris has fallen to a 39 percent chance of victory.

The RealClearPolitics betting average gives Trump a 59 percent chance of reaching the White House.

The prediction site Polymarket has Trump with a 64 percent chance of winning and Harris 36 percent.

On Predictit, another predicition site, he has a lead of 13 points.

Bet 365 gives Trump odds of -163 and Harris +130.

Oddschecker has Trump at -143 and Harris at +150.

Election Day

November 5

Early voting

Has begun

Polls open

7am local time (8am ET)

Poll close

8pm local time (9pm ET)

Presidential electoral votes

10 awarded to statewide winner.

First votes reported, Nov. 3, 2020: 9:07 p.m. ET.

By midnight ET: about 70 percent of total votes cast were reported.

Wisconsin is no stranger to close presidential elections.

The margin of victory was less than a percentage point in the state’s 2020, 2016, 2004 and 2000 elections. So it might be again this Election Day.

Both Republican former President Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris are competing hard for the 10 electoral votes at stake in Wisconsin, making frequent stops in the Badger State – including several in the vote-rich Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay areas.

Wisconsin was one of three ‘blue wall’ states (Michigan and Pennsylvania are the others) that went narrowly for Trump in 2016 after almost 30 years of voting for Democratic presidential candidates.

Four years later, Democrat Joe Biden won all three states back for Democrats with a margin in Wisconsin of about 20,000 votes out of nearly 3.3 million votes cast.

In the state’s U.S. Senate race, Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin seeks a third term against Republican Eric Hovde.

Baldwin is one of five vulnerable Senate Democrats defending a seat against a well-funded, Trump-backed challenger in a campaign cycle when a defeat for even one would likely cost the party control of the chamber. Both the Baldwin and Hovde campaigns and their allies have blanketed the state with more than $160 million in advertising, according to data from the campaign ad tracking firm AdImpact.

In the state Legislature, Democrats hope that new district maps will help them chip away at the lopsided majorities Republicans have enjoyed in both chambers for more than a decade.

Almost half of Wisconsin´s 33 state Senate seats and all 99 state Assembly seats are up for election this year.

In the state Assembly, Democrats have their most competitive campaign cycle in years, thanks in large part to the newly redrawn districts and the retirements they helped bring about.

Wisconsin voters will also consider a statewide ballot measure that would amend the state constitution to specifically ban noncitizens from voting in state elections. Noncitizens are already barred from participating in federal elections nationwide, and no state permits them to vote in state elections.

However, some municipalities in a handful of states allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. The issue has prompted efforts by Republicans in Congress and several states to ban the practice entirely.

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By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel as the U.S. tries to revive ceasefire efforts after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

President Joe Biden dispatched Blinken to jump start the talks, saying he was more ‘hopeful’ for a deal now that Sinwar was dead.

It is Blinken’s 11th visit to the region since the war started a year ago after the Oct. 7th attack on Israel.

Blinken’s previous trips have did not result in a ceasefire deal but he did increase humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza.

The United States, Egypt and Qatar have brokered months of talks between Israel and Hamas, trying to come to a deal where the militants would release dozens of hostages in return for an end to the war, a lasting cease-fire and the release of Palestinian prisoners.

But both Israel and Hamas accused the other of making unacceptable demands.

Blinken is expected to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials, and to visit a number of Arab countries, likely to include Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Robert Kennedy Jr. endorsed former President Donald Trump with the slogan ‘Make America healthy again,’ prompting speculation that the health conscious political figure would not be a fan of the former president serving up hot fries at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s.

But Kennedy reacted by pointing to the burger chain’s history of using beef tallow to fry their french fries.

‘Fast Food is a part of American culture. But that doesn’t mean it has to be unhealthy, and that we can’t make better choices,’ Kennedy wrote on social media.

Kennedy said that the decision by McDonald’s and other restaurants in the 1990’s to use seed oils to make their french fries was unhealthy, and that they should return to using beef tallow.

‘Americans should have every right to eat out at a restaurant without being unknowingly poisoned by heavily subsidized seed oils,’ he wrote. ‘It’s time to Make Frying Oil Tallow Again.’

A man impersonating a former student of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz created a video accusing the teacher of sexual assault.

The ‘fake’ former student of Gov. Walz described in detail for four-minutes an incident he claimed happened in 1997 – but it now appears that the clip is a deepfake created and distributed by Russian propagandists.

‘My name is Matthew Metro,’ said the man in the video, who went on to share real details about the former student of Walz’s.

But the real Metro showed his Hawaii driver’s license to The Washington Post to confirm his identity and expressed how angry he was when he saw a man pretending to be him level heinous claims against the Democratic vice presidential candidate.

Democrats are leading in early voting but Republicans are encouraged by their turnout.

Republicans appear to have backed the process of early voting more than in previous elections.

So far, at least 15 million people have voted in person or by mail.

Of those, 47 percent have been registered Democrats and 33 percent registered Republicans.

The total includes over 5 million in the even key swing states, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab.

Republicans say the violations include the ‘scheduling and funding of Chair Khan’s campaign travel to appear at several events with various Democratic congressional candidates.’

Donald Trump has a four-point lead over Kamala Harris in the swing state of Georgia, according to a new poll.

The results in a race that could be decided by just a few thousand votes are a boost for the former president, as the gap is wider than the margin of error.

The poll of 1,000 Georgia voters found 8 percent are still undecided with two weeks until Election Day.

Harris has a commanding lead among black voters with 74 percent compared to Trump’s 8 percent.

But 18 percent still haven’t settled on which candidate they are voting for, with early voting in the vital state underway.

There is also a gender divide, with 59 percent of men saying they will support Trump and 55 percent of women backing Harris.

Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney is out campaigning hard for Kamala Harris, but she also believes millions of Republicans will quietly vote for the vice president over Donald Trump come November.

The conservative former lawmaker and Harris make an odd pair on the campaign trail, but on Monday, they hit the road together for a series of events in the battleground states that make up Democrats’ so-called blue wall.

Speaking at a campaign event in suburban Oakland County, Michigan outside Detroit, Cheney said while she is making the public case for Republicans to vote for a Democrat, she won’t be the only one.

Hawaii, Utah, Missouri and Wisconsin have kicked off early in-person voting ahead of Election Day.

Wisconsin is one of the seven battleground states that could ultimately decide who wins the race.

It is part of the ‘Blue Wall’ which is a critical part of a path for Kamala Harris to take victory.

The state is one of three in the Rust Belt that voted for Donald Trump in 2016.

In 2020, President Joe Biden won the state by 20,682 votes – a gap over Trump of just 0.7 percent.

Donald Trump is pulling away from Kamala Harris with a demographic that is key to major swing-state Michigan.

A new Arab News/YouGov survey found 45 percent of Arab Americans polled said they are most likely to vote for the Republican former president Trump, while 43 percent would likely vote for the Democratic sitting vice president Harris.

Another 4 percent said they would vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein and 2 percent would not reveal their choice.

The poll surveyed 500 Arab Americans nationwide in late September. Trump’s advantage, however, is within the margin of error for the poll of plus or minus 5.93 percent.

The pollsters said their findings also suggest a massive Arab-American turnout of eligible Arab-American voters for the Nov. 5 presidential election, projecting 87 percent will vote.

Heightening the impact of the Israel-Gaza war and the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of it on this year’s race, the survey found 43 percent of those polled said they voted for Joe Biden in 2020, compared to just 34 pecent for Trump.

But that support has fallen by the waysides with Biden’s support for Israel’s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion, where terrorists killed 1,200 men, women and children and 254 people were taken hostage into Gaza.

The results track with a poll earlier this month by the Arab American Institute, which had Trump over Harris, 42 percent to 41 percent.

Arnon Mishkin, the head of Fox News’ decision desk, has made some big calls in past elections.

He says this one is so close it may take four days before the election is officially decided for Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.

The election is on Tuesday, November 5 and he said the decision may not be reached until the Saturday after the election.

He told Politico ‘the over/under is Saturday’ and added:

After three-and-a-half years of record breaking illegal immigration over the southern border, yet another migrant caravan is heading towards the U.S.

With just 15 days left until the presidential elections, the large group of asylum seekers are taking a shot to see if they can get into the country ahead of a potentially major shift in border policies.

It is just the latest example of the widespread influence that the 2024 American elections will have on the world.

Approximately 2,000 migrants departed Mexico’s southern border to head to the U.S. with worries over what will happen after November’s election, according to the Associated Press.

McDonald’s has finally revealed why it does not have records to verify Vice President Kamala Harris’ claim that she worked at one of its restaurants in the 1980s.

In a memo emailed to McDonald’s USA franchisees the corporation confirmed that while Harris had ‘fond memories’ of working at a location in Alameda County, ‘we and our franchisees don’t have records for all positions dating back to the early ’80s.’

A copy of the internal letter was posted by an anonymous McDonald’s franchise on social media and confirmed by the Wall Street Journal.

During a rally with fast food workers in 2019, Harris said she used to work at McDonald’s in college.

In April 2024, during an interview with the Drew Barrymore show, Harris repeated her claim that she ‘did fries’ at the restaurant.

Trump confidant and former chief strategist Steve Bannon says Kamala Harris’ run for president is doomed by her record in office and failure to act on Donald Trump’s criminal justice reform.

That means she is losing support from some of the key voter groups that will decide the election, he said.

He sent his statement from federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where he is in the final days of a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.

And he said he should have been released by now under Trump legislation that reduced sentences for non-violent offenders.

‘The “Queen of Mass Incarceration,” Kamala Harris, will lose her bid for the presidency on 5 November because of black and Hispanic men rejecting her candidacy and refusing to vote for her due to her failure to implement President Trump’s First Step Act,’ he said in a statement first obtained by the National Pulse.

‘Tens of thousands of Black and Hispanic men should now be back with their families or on a detailed path of when they leave prison.’

Donald Trump said he has finally won the respect of one of the biggest stars in Hollywood and wrestling – leaving the door open for a surprise last-minute endorsement.

Trump appeared on the podcast for WWE legend The Undertaker Monday when he discussed his uncertain relationship with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson – and how things suddenly changed.

‘I never thought he liked me, and I felt badly, because I think he’s a terrific guy,’ Trump admitted.

Trump then explained that he received a surprise call from UFC promoter Dana White. White told him The Rock was impressed by his defiant reaction after an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, and wanted to talk.

The accolades come amid neck-and-neck polling in the race against Vice President Kamala Harris and an endorsement from the WWE star would rival Harris’ coveted support from pop superstar Taylor Swift.

A town hall event with Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday featured a shocking revelation after one voter simply wondered whether she could ask a question.

Former California First Lady Maria Shriver admitted while hosting the event with former Rep. Liz Cheney in Royal Oak, Michigan that she would only include ‘predetermined questions.’

‘Are we going to be able to ask a question?’ asked a woman in the audience.

‘You’re not, unfortunately we have some predetermined questions,’ Shriver replied. ‘And hopefully I’ll be able to ask some of the questions that might be in your head, I hope so.’

Typically, presidential campaigns allow voters at townhall meetings to ask unscripted questions, which lends a level of authenticity to the proceedings and highlights a presidential candidate’s personal touch.

A slew of polls showing Donald Trump gaining ground or extending his lead over Kamala Harris has had a dramatic impact on his overall chances of winning November’s presidential election.

The former president has shot out to his biggest lead yet in our DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners election model.

It shows that he now wins in 65.9 percent of simulations when the algorithm runs through all possible combinations of data.

That is a big jump from Friday when the model was last run. Then he won in 61.4 percent of simulations.

With just two weeks to go until Election Day, it suggests time is running out for the vice president.