Donald Trump and Kamala Harris look at states in voting battle
November 4, 2024, published at 8:14 am ET
The US election race is on the verge of collapse as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris desperately try to secure votes in swing states.
RadarOnline.com can reveal that, with less than 24 hours to go before America elects its next president, polls indicate the rivals are incredibly close – meaning every single vote could be crucial.
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The candidates have focused on seven battleground states that they believe could hold the key to an election victory.
Currently, the 78-year-old Trump leads in Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia, according to the latest news from the FiveThirtyEight poll aggregator.
Meanwhile, Harris, 60, is clinging to narrow one-point leads in Michigan and Wisconsin, but the pair are nearly tied in Pennsylvania.
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There was unrest in Iowa, where a typically rock-solid Republican stronghold saw Harris ahead in a shocking poll from the usually reliable Des Moines Register.
But the former US president blasted the poll as “wrong” at a fiery rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, yesterday.
Trump raged: “They told me I’m in Iowa – I don’t think so,” before riling up the crowd with his trademark statements about immigration, election fraud and the economy.
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American politics expert James Johnson, co-founder of JL Partners, tellingly emphasized the unpredictability of the race The sun: “Our model has gone from a 68 percent chance of a Trump victory last week to 60 percent. So we end up in that too-close area.
“One of the main reasons for that is the poll released in Iowa by a highly respected pollster. Is there a hidden Harris voter out there?”
But Johnson still called Trump the “favorite” because of his strength in rural areas among white men.
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Trump focused on rallies in North Carolina and Georgia on Sunday, while Harris focused on Michigan, a key state seen as a must-win for Democrats.
The vice president also tried to boost her bid by appearing on Saturday Night Live last weekend.
Harris joined actress Maya Rudolph, who was dressed identically to the presidential candidate, for a sketch in front of a dressing room mirror.
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They gave each other a pep talk and said in unison: “Keep Kamala and keep going.”
They also took aim at Trump’s recent rally speeches, which included wearing an orange and yellow high-vis vest and a cheeky microphone gag.
But SNL’s appearance was accused by the Federal Communications Commission of violating “equal time” rules for political programming.
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Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee to the FCC, said: “The purpose of the rule is to prevent exactly this type of biased and partisan behavior – a broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence on one candidate at the eve of an election campaign. election, unless the broadcaster offered equal time to other qualifying campaigns.”
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Meanwhile, Hollywood’s big players continue to line up for Harris.
Star Wars icon Harrison Ford, 82, said in a dramatic black and white video: ‘I’ve been voting for 64 years, never really wanted to talk about it, but when dozens of former members of the Trump administration sounded the alarm, saying: ‘For God’s sake , don’t do this again, you have to pay attention.”
Ford joins fellow A-lister Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Eminem, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lopez as part of Team Kamala.