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US election live updates: more than 60m Americans have voted already as poll says enthusiasm is high | US elections 2024 More than 60m Americans have voted alreadyMore than 60 million Americans have already voted in the 2024 election. With just five days until election day, 60.9 million people in the US have voted early as of Thursday at noon, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida. Of the nearly 61 million, just over 32 million voted early in person and about 28 million voted early by mail.  Key events Trump called his supporters smarter than “crooked Joe’s or lyin’ Kamala’s” and denounced Joe Biden over his “garbage” remark. Trump took several digs at his opponent, telling his crowd that Harris “doesn’t have the stamina, the intellect or that special quality” that certain leaders have. Trump called the US “an occupied country” of illegal immigrants. “On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history,” he told the crowd. “We will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them the hell out of our country, and fast.” Trump also promised to end sanctuary cities across the country. Donald Trump has been holding a rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a region he said “has some of the worst border problems”. ”If you voted against me, shame on you,” Trump told his crowd. In addition to calling Kamala Harris “grossly incompetent”, Trump falsely said Harris imports criminals and mental institute patients into the US. He said “rough and tough hombres” were coming across the border, a callback to a comment he made in 2016 during a debate with the then Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton about male drug dealers allegedly crossing the southern border illegally: “We have some bad hombres here and we’re gonna to get ‘em out.” The Trump campaign has rebuked Harris-Walz surrogate Mark Cuban for comments he made about women on Thursday during an appearance on The View. “Donald Trump – you never see him around strong, intelligent women ever,” Cuban said when discussing Trump’s former primary opponent Nikki Haley and the women working Trump’s campaign and in his former administration. “It’s just that simple: they’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them.” The Trump campaign said in a statement in response: “Joe Biden called Trump supporters garbage, and now, Kamala’s top surrogate Mark Cuban insinuated female Trump supporters are ‘weak and dumb.’ This is extremely insulting to the thousands of women who work for President Trump, and the tens of millions of women who are voting for him. These women are mothers, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders and they are, indeed, strong AND intelligent, despite what Mark Cuban and Kamala Harris say.” Michael Bloomberg, former New York mayor, endorses HarrisMichael Bloomberg has announced he voted for Kamala Harris. The former New York City mayor, who governed as a Republican and as an independent, and who was also a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, wrote in an article for his own news media company, Bloomberg News, that he voted for Harris “without hesitation”. Bloomberg said that although he disagreed with Harris on some issues, he applauded a number of her policies including women’s reproductive rights, immigration, gun safety, and the climate crisis. Bloomberg called the US “the world’s greatest nation” and said Trump made it “look like a banana republic” when he tried to overturn the results of the election and incite violence on 6 January at the Capitol. Bloomberg added: “Most Americans never thought we’d witness such a shameful episode. Trump, rather than apologizing for it – as some of those convicted of January 6-related crimes have done – celebrates it.” Bloomberg concluded with an ask to “undecided voters of all political stripes” to join him in voting for Harris. Where are the presidential and vice-presidential candidates campaigning today?
The Economist endorses Kamala HarrisThe Economist magazine announced their endorsement of Kamala Harris on Thursday. In the statement, editors at the Economist wrote:
New poll shows presidential race pretty much deadlocked in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The surveys, conducted by UMass Lowell/YouGov and released today, found that in North Carolina Donald Trump was leading Kamala Harris 47% to 45%. In Pennsylvania, Harris is leading Trump, 48% to 47%, and in Michigan, Harris received 49% of the support among likely voters surveyed compared with 45% for Trump, well within the survey’s margin of error. Former Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro suspended from practicing law in New YorkA state appeals court in New York ruled on Thursday that Kenneth Chesebro – the attorney who allegedly devised the “fake electors” plan to prevent Joe Biden from winning the 2020 election – will have his law license suspended. Last year, in August, Chesebro was indicted, along with Trump and 17 others in Georgia on state racketeering and conspiracy charges over efforts to overturn Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election there. In October, Chesebro accepted a plea deal. With just days before the US presidential election, Guardian reporters Oliver Laughland and Joel Van Haren visited communities in Pennsylvania with the most on the line. Watch here: Election enthusiasm up from 56% to 70% among registered voters, poll saysVoter enthusiasm is high for this presidential election, according to a new Gallup poll. The poll, released on Thursday, found that 70% of registered voters nationwide said that they were more enthusiastic than usual about voting, up from 56% in March. The increase was largely a result of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents expressing heightened enthusiasm for Kamala Harris after Joe Biden dropped out of the race, the survey states. 70% enthusiasm is also one percentage point higher than what Gallup measured at the close of the 2020 election. Americans’ attention to the election is also relatively high, the poll writes, with 83% of registered voters and 77% of US adults saying they have given “quite a lot of thought” to the election. Source link Posted: 2024-10-31 20:46:44 |
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