With only four days until US Presidential Election Day, many polls have predicted a neck and neck race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are both in the pivotal battleground states of Nevada and Arizona on Thursday (October 31).
A Fox Poll said that Trump is ahead of Harris in two battleground States, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, by just one percentage point, while there is a tie between the two in Michigan. The three other battleground States this time are Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin.
According a CNN report, in a presidential race that polls show is neck and neck – one that could be decided by small numbers of voters in a single battleground state – every detail matters.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both have viable paths to the White House, with four days until Election Day. Critical decisions both campaigns made this summer and fall, and key moments as the race progressed, could decide the election’s outcome.
Here’s a look at some of those potentially decisive choices – the wisdom of which won’t be known until after the 2024 contest is settled.
The Washington Post reports that Harris has held her leads nationally and in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada, but her lead in Pennsylvania shrunk in the last week. Trump still leads in Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday wrote that a Harris victory would mean a fourth Obama term. "Her candidacy is best understood as an attempt to continue the progressive political wave that began in 2006 with the GOP defeat in Congress and rolled ashore as a tsunami amid the financial panic of 2008. She is running for what essentially would be Barack Obama's fourth progressive term," the daily wrote. "At home, she's no centrist. Abroad, she seems unprepared for the dangers ahead," the journal said.
Real Clear Politics, which tracks all major polls, gives a slender 0.4 percentage points advantage to Trump at the national level, while in the battleground States, he has a lead of just one per cent. Trump is, however, leading in the betting market with 63.1 points against Harris's 35.8.
CBS News polls said Trump and Harris are tied at 49 per cent in Pennsylvania. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.
As of Wednesday, nearly 60 million people had already voted either by mail-in-vote or in-person early votes, five days ahead of the general elections scheduled for November 5. Simultaneous voting and campaigning are a unique aspect of American democracy.
A CNN poll put the two nominees tied at 48 per cent in Pennsylvania, while Harris is ahead of Trump by six points in Wisconsin and by five points in Michigan.
Meanwhile, Latin superstar Nicky Jam said he is withdrawing his endorsement of former President Donald Trump, one month after appearing onstage with Trump while donning a MAGA hat, report agencies.
“The reason I supported Donald Trump was because I thought he was the best for the economy in the United States where a lot of Latinos live, a lot of immigrants who are suffering because of the economy,” Nicky Jam – whose birth name is Nick Rivera Caminero – said in a video.
“Never in my life did I think, that one month later there would be a comedian who would criticize my country and speak poorly of my country,” he continued. “And for that I withdraw my support of Donald Trump. Puerto Rico should be respected.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Republican governor of California, said he will be voting for Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz in a rare endorsement. “To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” Schwarzenegger said in a post on X.
The famous actor and longtime Republican criticized Donald Trump and said a second term for the former president would make people “angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.”
“He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger,” Schwarzenegger said. Last week, Trump said the US is “like a garbage can for the world” as he railed against illegal immigration at a campaign rally in Arizona.
Schwarzenegger has been openly critical of the former president in recent years. Following the January 6, 2021, insurrection, Schwarzenegger said Trump would be remembered as the worst president in US history and urged unity among Americans.
Meanwhile, retired astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin endorsed Trump. Aldrin, the last surviving member of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission and the second person to walk on the moon, praised Trump’s first term and specifically cited the former president’s previous space policies in a statement announcing the endorsement.
The 94-year-old said he has seen the “government’s approach to space wax and wane, a fluctuating dynamic that has disappointed me from time to time. But under the first Trump Administration, I was impressed to see how human space exploration was elevated, made a policy of high importance again. Under President Trump’s first term, America saw a revitalized interest in space.”
Harris said she “strongly” disagrees with criticizing anyone based on how they vote, after remarks from President Joe Biden sparked backlash from many who interpreted them as referring to Trump supporters as “garbage.” Trump and his allies accused Harris, by extension, of looking down on Americans who back the Republican presidential nominee, reports CNN.
Harris has a narrow edge in Michigan and Wisconsin, while she and Trump remain tied in Pennsylvania, new CNN polls show, amid a locked race nationwide.
Donald Trump pulled an election stunt with a garbage truck as the White House campaign was forced off-piste by muddled remarks from President Joe Biden about the Republican's supporters that caused a headache for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. Trump wanted to draw attention to a remark made a day earlier by his successor, Biden, that suggested Trump's supporters were garbage. Trump has used the remark as a cudgel against his Democratic rival Kamala Harris.
