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Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are holding rallies in Milwaukee in the crucial state of Wisconsin this evening
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Your support makes all the difference.The final poll from The Times and YouGov finds that Kamala Harris is set to narrowly win enough swing states to take the White House.
“We find that Kamala Harris very narrowly wins enough of those states to become America’s first female president,” Times US Assistant Editor David Charter said on Friday.
This comes as a Harris campaign official has said they “fully expect” former President Donald Trump to declare victory before all votes have been counted.
“It won’t work,” the official said during a press call.
“He did this before. It failed,” they added. “If he does it again, it will fail.”
With four days of campaigning to go in the 2024 race, Harris and Trump are making their final pitches, spending Friday evening hosting competing rallies in Wisconsin where they will attempt to appeal to “blue wall” voters.
Having already addressed two gatherings of his supporters on Thursday, the former president ended his day in a sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson on stage in Glendale, Arizona, at which he shockingly fantasized about former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney being shot at.
Cheney has since hit back at Trump, calling him “a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
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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.
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Trump sues CBS News for $10bn over Harris interview
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.
Trump files $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News over Kamala Harris interview
His long-shot complaint accuses the network of deceptively editing an interview in an ‘attempt to tip the scales’
Georgia targeted with fake social media videos from Russian troll farm
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.”
Leaked audio appears to reveal Jeffrey Epstein detailing inner workings of Trump White House
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.
Here’s more.
Audio appears to reveal Jeffrey Epstein detailing inner workings of Trump White House
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Harris may have big early voting lead despite Trump’s claims GOP is winning, polling suggests
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.
Polls show Harris may have big early voting lead despite Trump’s claims
Trump trails Harris by between 19 and 29 points among those who say they’ve already cast their ballots, according to the polls
LeBron James endorses Harris
The NBA legend has made up his mind, seemingly in reaction to Tony Hinchcliffe’s Puerto Rico crack.
Harris also picked up the support of Madonna yesterday, as well as most of the key cast members of Marvel’s The Avengers, but not George W Bush, who is not endorsing anyone.
Here’s Kevin EG Perry on the superhero vote.
The Avengers take to Instagram to make presidential endorsements
‘Shazam’ star Zachary Levi claims that Trump has assembled a team of political superheroes, but how will the likes of Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson really be voting on November 5?
Where are the candidates campaigning on Friday?
Here’s where the main players will be today:
- Kamala Harris will be in Wisconsin all day, first Janesville, then Little Chute and finally Milwaukee this evening with rapper Cardi B.
- Donald Trump will also be in the same city this evening but will first appear in Warren, Michigan.
- Tim Walz is in Michigan, visiting first Detroit, then Flint and then Traverse City
- JD Vance will be in Portage in the same state this morning and then Selma, North Carolina, this afternoon.
- Joe Biden will meanwhile be visiting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, will meanwhile be campaigning in West Chester in the same state on his wife’s behalf.
Donald Trump Jr wears a garbage bag to own the libs on Halloween
Tim Walz takes a shot at Trump’s age after garbage truck gaffe
Speaking in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, Harris’s running mate slammed their septuagenarian rival after he flew to Wisconsin, donned a bright orange safety vest and got into a waste collection vehicle in an attempt to troll the Democrats.
“Look, this dude’s nearly 80 years old,” Walz said. “He damn near killed himself getting into a garbage truck.”
Katie Hawkinson reports.
Walz takes a shot at Trump’s age after garbage truck gaffe: ‘Dude’s nearly 80’
Trump donned a safety vest and got into a garbage truck in an attempt to slam Joe Biden and Kamala Harris this week
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