Harris edges Trump in new national poll as she prepares to announce running mate – live
"Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump by 1.4 points according to Nate Silver’s new poll; VP could name running mate today ahead of Tuesday’s Philadelphia rally
A new CBS opinion poll finds that Kamala Harris has pulled ahead of Donald Trump by one point nationally as the presidential election enters a vital few weeks.
Nate Silver links to that poll in his latest bulletin, too.
The TV network characterizes the results as a “reset” of the election, as Harris prepares to choose her running mate, after becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for president this election, and faces off against the Republican ticket of Trump and JD Vance.
The latest survey completed for CBS shows Harris edging just ahead of Trump, while noting that was “something President Biden never had – he was down by 5 points when he left the race” for re-election last month.
CBS reported online that: “Boosted by Democrats, younger and Black voters becoming more engaged and likely to vote, and by women decidedly thinking she’d favor their interests more, Vice President Kamala Harris has reset the 2024 presidential race.”
But it warns that Trump is still more popular with voters when they are asked about stewardship of the economy and handling immigration, especially at the US-Mexico border.
Harris closes in on choice of running mate
Good morning, it’s going to be quite the week in US political news, starting with big news as early as today as we wait for Kamala Harris to pick her running mate for the 2024 election. Let’s get going:
US vice-president Kamala Harris needs to announce who her choice of vice-presidential candidate is, now that she’s the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, before a crucial event scheduled tomorrow.
Harris could announce the name today or even tomorrow – she is going to appear for a rally with her presumptive No 2 in Philadelphia tomorrow evening. The format of the announcement is not yet known.
Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Arizona senator Mark Kelly met with Harris at her residence in Washington DC yesterday, she met with transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg last Friday and has probably had remote meetings with the other contenders, the governors of Kentucky and Illinois, Andy Beshear and JB Pritzker, respectively.
Harris and her veep contender will start a tour in the must-win swing state of Pennsylvania, then Wednesday through Saturday they’ll zip through the other swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, in that order.
Donald Trump is busy figuring out how to counter the renewed energy and financial giving on the Democratic side as Harris is shown continuing to catch up to the Republican presidential nominee in some new polls.
Independent presidential candidate and a member of the Kennedy political dynasty, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has hit the headlines thanks to a profile in the New Yorker. He excoriated Trump before sucking up to him and also in a bizarre stunt he dumped a dead bear in New York’s Central Park a decade ago, to make it look as though a cyclist had hit it.
Joe Biden will meet with his national security team at the White House this afternoon, accompanied by Harris, as tensions escalate in the Middle East, chiefly concerning Israel, Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. The US president is due to speak with King Abdullah of Jordan this morning before traveling to Washington DC from Delaware.
Our global team in London is running live blogs to cover the developing news across financial markets, as Wall Street follows others in plunging this morning, and the Middle East, where observers are braced amid extreme tension between Israel and Iran."
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