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Harris and Trump are spending their weekends making their final pitches in the key battleground states
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Kamala Harris<\/a> made a surprise appearance on NBC\u2019s Saturday Night Live <\/em><\/a>alongside host John Mulaney<\/a> and musical guest Chappell Roan<\/a>.
The vice president\u2019s flight from Charlotte to Detroit was diverted to New York, and a few hours later she appeared in the cold open as the reflection of Maya Rudolph<\/a> who impersonates Harris on the show.
Meanwhile, a shocking new poll out of Iowa<\/a>, a state in which neither candidate has campaigned, has put the Democratic candidate three points ahead of Donald Trump<\/a> \u2014\u00a0a 12-point swing against the Republican since the 2020 election.
The Des Moines Register <\/em>observes that much of the shift to Harris from the former president comes from women and independents. Approximately 20 percent of the voters in the Republican Iowa caucus backed Nikki Haley<\/a> over Trump.
Earlier today, the former president said that \u201cwomen have to be protected when they’re at home in suburbia\u201d as he attempted to double down on his previous comment that he’d protect them \u201cwhether they like it or not.\u201d<\/a>
Some 70 million Americans have already voted early according to CNN. Both candidates spent Saturday in North Carolina<\/a> keeping the focus on key battlegrounds as Election Day looms.
In his latest blog for investment platform Saxo, former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci says the Harris campaign is \u201cnauseously optimistic\u201d.
They\u2019re saying they\u2019re nauseously optimistic – not cautiously – they\u2019re nauseously optimistic. They\u2019ve got a pit in their stomach, but they\u2019re looking at their data and they like their data.<\/em>
They\u2019re looking at the women\u2019s turnout and they like it. The elder vote in Pennsylvania is way down. It means older people are saying, \u201cI\u2019m not going to vote. I don\u2019t like her, so I\u2019m not going to vote for her, but I can\u2019t vote for this anymore\u201d.<\/em>
His final message to Americans as the country casts their vote is to back Kamala Harris, even if you have to \u201chold your nose\u201d.
I would be telling them I\u2019m for Harris. While I may not agree with every single policy, she\u2019s a constitutionalist and she\u2019s for our system. He\u2019s talking about shaking the system and going after his enemies.<\/em>
Imagine a politician who wants to go after his enemies in a democracy that has free speech, versus if you were railing against her and she won, you would have zero worries about her coming against you.<\/em>
So, I would appeal to their individual liberty and say if Donald Trump is coming after Liz Cheney, which you may think is distant from you, but that\u2019s a domino toppling that\u2019s heading towards you because that\u2019s how really bad things start.<\/em>
If you don\u2019t like her or her tax policy, hold your nose and vote for her, because she represents a system that has made the country the most prosperous economy in the history of the world.<\/em>
J Ann Seltzer, widely considered to be among the best pollsters in the country, has just published her final survey of Iowa for The Des Moines Register<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>
To the surprise of many it shows a 12-point swing to the Democratic Party ticket since 2020, putting Kamala Harris three points over Donald Trump in the Hawkeye State at 47% to 44%.
Per the paper:
The results come as Trump and Harris have focused their attention almost exclusively on seven battleground states that are expected to shape the outcome of the election. Neither has campaigned in Iowa since the presidential primaries ended, and neither campaign has established a ground presence in the state.<\/em>
A victory for Harris would be a surprising development after Iowa has swung aggressively to the right in recent elections, delivering Trump solid victories in 2016 and 2020.<\/em>
The poll shows that women \u2014 particularly those who are older or who are politically independent \u2014 are driving the late shift toward Harris.<\/em>
\u201cAge and gender are the two most dynamic factors that are explaining these numbers,\u201d Selzer said.<\/em>
The poll of 808 likely Iowa voters, which include those who have already voted as well as those who say they definitely plan to vote, was conducted by Selzer & Co. from October 28-31. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points \u2014 so any lead Harris has is within that.
With just four days of campaigning to go in the 2024 presidential election<\/a>, Donald Trump<\/a> is facing new claims about his past friendship with the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.
Journalist Michael Wolff<\/a>, who wrote three books about the Republican\u2019s first administration between 2017 and 2021, has released an audio clip on his podcast Fire and Fury<\/em> of what he says is Epstein talking in intimate detail about the inner workings of Trump\u2019s Cabinet.
Wolff says the audio was recorded, to the best of his recollection, at the SoHo branch of Ladur\u00e9e, a Manhattan patisserie, in 2017 when he met with Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in August 2019, to discuss the prospect of writing his biography.
Joe Sommerlad <\/strong>reports.
Journalist Michael Wolff releases recording allegedly featuring late billionaire pedophile gossiping about Republican\u2019s first administration
Worth a watch for a fun self-deprecating cameo…
Rapper Cardi B<\/a> hit out at Donald Trump<\/a> during a rally for Kamala Harris, warnings voters the former president doesn\u2019t believe women deserve rights.
Speaking at the event in Wisconsin on Friday, she bashed Trump<\/a> for a recent comment he made this week stating: \u201cI\u2019m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I am going to protect them.\u201d
Trump said his aides had urged him to stop using the term \u201cprotector\u201d on the campaign trail because it was \u201cinappropriate.\u201d He then doubled down on the stance.
Michelle Del Rey <\/strong>reports.
\u2018If his definition of protection is making sure our daughters have fewer rights than our mothers then I don\u2019t want it,\u2019 the singer said
Asked by the pool reporters how she liked her appearance on Saturday Night Live, she said with a smile: \u201cIt was fun.\u201d
Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign, reacted to Kamala Harris\u2019s appearance on Saturday Night Live<\/em> with the following statement:
Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer the American people, so that’s why she’s living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on Saturday Night Leftists as her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity. For the last four years, Kamala’s destructive policies have led to untold misery and hurt for all Americans. She broke it, and President Trump will fix it.<\/em>
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