Latest poll finds Harris ‘narrowly’ wins enough swing states to become first female president: Election live updates

Nate Silver’s presidential election forecast shows Kamala Harris ahead in the national polls by just over one percentage point with just a few days to go until Election Day.

But Donald Trump is narrowly ahead in several battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, while Harris has small leads in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Musicians and Donald Trump have a fraught relationship. From ordering him to stop playing their music to calling out his politics, some of the highest-profile artists in the world have aligned themselves against the former president, who is campaigning in the 2024 election against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

While several prominent singers have been calling out Trump as long ago as 1989, when he was a promoter for the Rolling Stones (Keith Richards was not a fan), his time as president prompted many more to criticise him at shows, write protest songs about him, or mock him from their social media accounts.

From his 2016 presidential campaign to his bid in the 2024 election, here’s an extensive timeline of some of the most notable moments involving Trump and the music industry.

The dog that didn’t bark was one of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous three-pipe mysteries. There is, by contrast, no great puzzle about the newspaper that didn’t endorse. Jeff Bezos decreed it. And when you’re in the top three richest in the world, people tend to do what you ask them to do.

Thus we have one of the world’s great news organisations, The Washington Post (hereinafter the WashPo), now not telling its readers which candidate it considers would make the best next US president. Its voice has been silenced – by its owner.

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Kamala Harris gave a short but clear response to Donald Trump’s announcement that he will put Robert F Kennedy Jr in charge of “women’s health” if elected on Tuesday.

“No,” the vice president wrote from her personal X account Thursday night, attaching a red heart emoji. In the clip she re-posted, Trump told his supporters in Nevada that Kennedy will work on “health and women’s health” if he regains the White House.

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Here’s Alicja Hagopian on what the latest polls say about the 2024 presidential election.

Experts walk The Independent through the possible scenarios of when we’ll know whether Trump or Harris has won the race.

Here’s Rhian Lubin.

If you missed this one earlier, Donald Trump is suing CBS News for $10bn, alleging that the network deceptively edited an interview with his rival Kamala Harris to unlawfully influence the 2024 presidential election.

The lawsuit, filed in Texas, accuses CBS of “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion calculated to… confuse, deceive, and mislead the public” and “attempt to tip the scales” in favor of the Democratic nominee.

Alex Woodward has more.

The Peach State’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger put out this statement last night:

“Earlier today, our office became aware of a video purporting to show a Haitian immigrant with multiple Georgia ID’s claiming to have voted multiple times.

“This is false, and is an example of targeted disinformation we’ve seen this election. It is likely foreign interference attempting to sow discord and chaos on the eve of the election.

“We are working to combat this and identify the origin of it with our state and federal partners. CISA is currently investigating. In the meantime, we ask Elon

Musk and the leadership of other social media platforms to take this down. This is obviously fake and part of a disinformation effort. Likely it is a production of Russian troll farms.

“As Americans we can’t let our enemies use lies to divide us and undermine our faith in our institutions – or each other.”

With just four days of campaigning to go in the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump is facing new claims about his past friendship with the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Journalist Michael Wolff, who wrote three books about the Republican’s first administration between 2017 and 2021, has released an audio clip on his podcast Fire and Fury of what he says is Epstein talking in intimate detail about the inner workings of Trump’s Cabinet.

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Despite Donald Trump’s boasts of an “unprecedented” lead in early voting, polling suggests that Kamala Harris is actually significantly ahead among those who have already voted either through absentee, mail-in or in-person ballots.

Recent national polling from ABC News/Ipsos, The News York Times/Sienna College and CNN show that Harris leads Trump 62 percent to 33 percent; 59 percent to 40 percent; and 61 percent to 36 percent respectively, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

The same trend is also true across almost all of the swing states, according to surveys from CNN, Fox News, Marist Poll and USA Today/Suffolk University.

James Liddell has more.