US presidential election updates: Poll shows Harris ahead in early voting as Trump jokes about reporters getting shot | US elections 2024

Less than 48 hours before the US election and more than 77.6 million votes have already been cast, new polls show Kamala Harris Top early voter in battleground states across the country.

The Democratic candidate has an 8% lead among those who have already voted, while her opponent, Donald Trumpis at the forefront of those who say they are very likely to vote but have not yet done so. The poll, conducted by The New York Times and Siena College, also found Harris slightly ahead in three swing states, with Trump ahead in one and the other three too close to make a difference.

With only a few hours of campaigning left, Harris spoke up Michiganwhile her Republican opponent took advantage of a rally Pennsylvania to complain about gaps in the bulletproof shields surrounding him and said he would not be afraid of reporters being shot if there was another assassination attempt against him.

“To get me, someone would have to shoot through the fake news, and that doesn’t bother me that much,” he said, adding that the press is “severely corrupt people.” Trump's communications director claimed in a statement that the comments were ostensibly an attempt to look out for the well-being of the news media.

This is what else happened on Sunday:

News and updates on the election of Donald Trump

• The Trump campaign claimed that the NYT poll and Selzer poll in Iowa on Saturday for the Des Moines Register were aimed at suppressing Trump turnout by painting a biased, bleak picture of Trump's re-election prospects. “No president has done more for FARMERS and the great state of Iowa than Donald J. Trump,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social network.

• In Pennsylvania, Trump told his supporters that he should have stayed in the White Housedespite losing the 2020 election. “The day I left, we had the most secure border in the history of our country,” Trump said.

• At a rally in Macon, Georgia, Trump continued his anti-immigrant rhetoric and suggested again that he would give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a role in health care policy. Trump said he 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 work on everything.”

• According to RFK Jr When he proposed removing fluoride from drinking water on the first day of the new Trump administration, the former president appeared to agree with the idea. “Well, I haven't talked to him about it yet, but it sounds OK to me,” 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. “Hopefully we’ll get rid of Mitch McConnell soon,” Trump said. Republican voters in Kinston told the Guardian they were ready to fight a “stolen election.”

News and updates on the election of Kamala Harris

• At her last rally in Michigan, Harris pledged to do everything in her power to “end the war in Gaza.”as she sought to appeal to the state's large Arab American and Muslim American populations. Michigan is home to about 240,000 registered Muslim voters, the majority of whom voted for Biden in 2020. But Arab Americans and Muslim Americans in the state have expressed dissatisfaction with the administration's stance on Israel's war on Gaza.

• Harris dodged a question about whether she voted for a controversial anti-crime measure This would make it easier for prosecutors to jail or jail repeat shoplifters and drug users after they cast their ballot in California. Proposition 36 would roll back the provisions of Proposition 47, which downgraded petty theft and drug possession as misdemeanors.

• At Michigan's Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ in Detroit, Harris told the congregation that God's plan was to “heal us and bring us together as a nation,” but that they “must act” to make that plan a reality.

Elsewhere in the election campaign

• A US government communications watchdog has alleged that Harris' appearance on Saturday Night Live violates the “concurrent” rules that apply to political programming. Brendan Carr, commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said: “The purpose of the rule is to prevent exactly this kind of biased and partisan behavior – a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence on a candidate's behalf the night before .” of a choice.”

• Iowa can continue to challenge the validity of hundreds of potential non-citizen ballots, A federal judge has ruled. The state has targeted illegal voting, but critics said the action threatened the voting rights of people who recently became U.S. citizens.

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