Harris and Trump deadlocked in new 2024 presidential election poll: Live updates

JD Vance struggled to answer coherently when asked about Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina who is at the center of damning claims.

Robinson was the subject of a report by CNN’s KFile unit last week which alleges he has an extensive history of comments made on a porn site called “Nude Africa” under an email address and username both known to be linked to him.

The comments, which touched on a wide range of topics, were outrageous and shocking — in one, he reportedly referred to himself as a “Black Nazi.” Robinson claims he did not write the comments and denies the allegations.

When Vance was asked about it on the campaign trail, he struggled to give a straight answer on whether he believed Robinson.

Rhian Lubin has the story.

With 41 days until Election Day, the presidential race remains too close to call as former President Donald Trump receives 48 per cent support among likely voters, Vice President Kamala Harris receives 47 per cent support, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver each receive 1 per cent support, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll of likely voters released today.

In the previous poll, released on August 29, following the Democratic National Convention, the presidential race was also too close to call, with Harris receiving 49 per cent support, Trump receiving 47 per cent support, and Stein and Oliver each getting 1 per cent support.

In today’s poll, Republicans 93-6 per cent back Trump, while Democrats 94-5 per cent back Harris. Among independents, 47 per cent back Trump, 44 per cent back Harris, 3 per cent back Stein, and 2 per cent back Oliver.

In a hypothetical two-way race between Harris and Trump, Trump receives 48 per cent support and Harris receives 48 per cent support.

Seventy per cent of likely voters supporting Harris say they are very enthusiastic about supporting her, compared to 75 per cent in August.

Seventy-one per cent of likely voters supporting Trump say they are very enthusiastic about supporting him, compared to 68 per cent in August.

Anti-LGBT+ author and activist Corey DeAngelis has been placed on leave from the conservative group the American Federation for Children following allegations that he appeared in gay adult films.

The organization removed a page outlining his work with the group. The federation said that DeAngelis had been placed on leave while the claim that he appeared in videos as “Seth Rose” on the adult film site GayHoopla was investigated, according to LGBTQ Nation. The videos seem to have been posted around 2014, the outlet noted.

Gustaf Kilander reports.

With Kamala Harris scheduled to visit Arizona on Friday during a swing through western states, there are reports seized upon by Donald Trump that the vice president will be visiting the southern border.

The former president mentioned the trip (which has not officially been announced by the Harris campaign) during remarks in Savannah this lunchtime, but had already posted on Truth Social:

After almost four years, Border Czar Kamala Harris has decided, for political reasons, that it’s time for her to go to our broken Southern Border. What a disgrace that she waited so long, allowing millions of people to enter our Country from prisons, mental institutions, and criminal cells all over the World, not just South America, many of those coming are terrorists, and at a level never seen before! She’s trying to con the public like she did a good job at the Border when, in fact, she has destroyed the very fabric of our Nation allowing 21 Million people in from places unknown….

….When Kamala is seen at the Border on Friday, she will pass Hundreds of Miles of Wall that was built by TRUMP, and it is Wall that WORKS! When she speaks, be advised that this woman has allowed more than 21 million people into our Country, totally unvetted, and from places unknown. They are now creating criminal havoc all throughout the Country. Every State is a Border State! When she speaks, I hope everybody remembers that she has caused our cities, towns, and Country itself, tremendous damage, and only I can fix it!

Senator Joe Manchin, a staunch defender of the filibuster, tells CNN’s Manu Raju that he will not endorse Kamala Harris now over her call to end the filibuster to codify Roe v Wade.

“Shame on her,” Manchin said today in the Capitol.

“She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy. It's the only thing that keeps us talking and working together. If she gets rid of that, then this would be the House on steroids.”

Given her stance, Manchin said he wouldn't back Harris for president.

“That ain't going to happen,” he said. “I think that basically can destroy our country and my country is more important to me than any one person or any one person's ideology... I think it's the most horrible thing.”

In his speech today in Savannah, Georgia, Donald Trump says he wants to cut the corporate tax rate to 15 per cent but only for businesses that manufacture their products in the US. It is currently at 21 per cent.

He also made a bit of a gaffe:

Donald Trump scolded those who critique the Supreme Court at a rally on Monday, saying people should be jailed for “the way they talk about our judges and our justices” – despite the First Amendment allowing people to criticize the government.

The former president, who has invoked his First Amendment right to launch a bevy of attacks against federal and state judges, suggested it should be “illegal” to rebuke judicial decisions or try and advocate in favor of a certain decision.

Ariana Baio has the story.

Donald Trump isn’t letting this one go.

At a Pennsylvania rally Monday evening, the former president continued his attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris for speaking out about her summer job at McDonald’s, this time insisting he’d like to stop by the fast-food joint and try “the French fry job” for a bit to “see how it is.”

Madeline Sherratt has the story.