Polls show tight races for Trump and Harris in crucial battleground states as Election Day nears: Live

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are still virtually tied in the seven key battleground states according to the latest Washington Post/Schar School poll. Harris has a narrow lead in the Blue Wall state of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, as well as in Georgia. Trump is ahead in Arizona and North Carolina, while they are tied in Nevada.

The former president spent Sunday working the fry cooker at a branch of McDonald’s – the latest bizarre moment in a campaign that has increasingly become a tour of personal vendettas and aimless grudges, despite his aides’ best efforts to keep him on track.

The Republican presidential nominee has become obsessed with the fact that his Democratic opponent worked in one of its restaurants when she was a student.

CBS News has meanwhile hit back at the former president over his repeated false claims that its show 60 Minutes edited its recent interview with Harris to make her answers appear more favorable.

In a statement, the show insisted its episodes are cut to be “clear, accurate and on point” and never “deceitful”.

Harris meanwhile spent the weekend celebrating her 60th birthday while Trump raised eyebrows with a crude anecdote about golfer Arnold Palmer’s manhood.

Key Points

• Donald Trump serves up disturbing message with fries at Pennsylvania McDonald’s

• CBS News finally hits back at Trump’s false 60 Minutes claims

• Trump raises eyebrows with crude anecdote about late golfer Arnold Palmer’s manhood

• Elon Musk offers voters $1m to sign PAC petition. Can that be legal?

• Campaign schedule: Who’s doing what where on Monday

• New Washington Post/Schar poll shows tight race in swing states

Supreme Court rejects Michael Cohen’s petition about Trump’s retaliation against him

15:22 , Oliver O’Connell

The Supreme Court has denied Michael Cohen’s request to hear his case against Donald Trump, who is accused of retaliating against his former attorney and “fixer” by keeping him in solitary confinement after he publicly discussed plans for a tell-all memoir.

The justices did not provide a written explanation for their decision on Monday.

Cohen filed his appeal to the nation’s highest court in July, arguing that the case raises major questions about constitutional abuses by the federal government against its sharpest critics.

Alex Woodward reports.

Supreme Court rejects Michael Cohen’s retaliation case against Trump

New Washington Post/Schar poll shows tight race in swing states

15:10 , Oliver O’Connell

The latest Washington Post/Schar School poll of likely swing state voters shows Kamala Harris narrowly winning the key blue wall states and Georgia, and Donald Trump taking Arizona and North Carolina, with a tie between the two in Nevada.

PennsylvaniaHarris 49Trump 47

WisconsinHarris 50Trump 47

MichiganHarris 49Trump 47

NevadaHarris 48Trump 48

ArizonaTrump 49Harris 46

North CarolinaTrump 50Harris 47

GeorgiaHarris 51Trump 47

Harris is turning to video games and sports betting to win male voters

15:05 , Joe Sommerlad

Kamala Harris is placing ads on video game and sports betting sites in an effort to win back the male vote – often referred to as the “bro” vote – from Donald Trump.

Harris is placing ads on DraftKings, a sports betting company, and Yahoo Sports, NBC News reports.

Her campaign is now the first to advertise on DraftKings, the outlet added. She will also place ads on video game sites IGN and Fandom.

Some of these ads will be 30-second spots featuring celebrities such as NBA legend Magic Johnson and actor Ben Stiller.

Katie Hawkinson has more.

Harris is turning to video games and sports betting to try and win back male voters

Trump door-knocking efforts could be over-reported in two key states

14:45 , Joe Sommerlad

Door-knocking data from the Elon Musk-backed America PAC in two key swing states could be fraudulent, a new report reveals.

About 24 percent of door-knocks in Arizona and 25 percent of door-knocks in Nevada over the last week by the PAC were flagged under “unusual survey logs” on the Campaign Sidekick canvassing app, which could potentially mean they are fraudulent, The Guardian reports.

Here’s more from Katie Hawkinson.

Trump door-knocking efforts by Musk-backed PAC could be false in two key states

Joni Mitchell launches three-word attack on Trump during rare live performance

14:25 , Joe Sommerlad

The legendary singer-songwriter, 80, performed at the Hollywood Bowl over the weekend and, at one point, told her audience: “‘F*** Donald Trump… I wish I could vote… I’m a Canadian. I’m one of those lousy immigrants.”

Roisin O’Connor reports.

Joni Mitchell launches three-word attack on Trump during rare live performance

Gold price hits record high ahead of tight US presidential election

14:05 , Joe Sommerlad

The price of gold has hit another record high as investors turn to the safe haven asset amid a tightening US presidential race and intensifying conflict in the Middle East.

Howard Mustoe reports.

Gold price hits record high ahead of tight US presidential election

Trump and Musk’s sudden bond suggests ‘other things going on behind scenes,’ warns Newsom

13:45 , Joe Sommerlad

California Governor Gavin Newsom appeared on MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki on Sunday and said of the Silicon Valley tycoon: “I have known Elon for over 20, 25 years. One of America’s great entrepreneurs and innovators, but this is not the person I knew even two years ago.

“And with respect to Elon, I just don’t have the confidence that there’s other things that he’s not up to behind the scenes – not just what he is expressing quite publicly.”

Here’s more from James Liddell.

Trump and Musk’s sudden bond suggests ‘things going on behind scenes,’ warns Newsom

Exclusive: Palmer’s daughter says Trump’s vulgar ramblings were ‘an unfortunate way to remember my dad’

13:25 , Joe Sommerlad

Justin Rohrlich has been speaking to Peggy Palmer about the Republican nominee’s grotesque remarks concerning her late father.

Arnold Palmer’s daughter says Trump’s speech was ‘unfortunate way to remember my dad’

Josh Shapiro calls on cops to look into Musk’s $1m giveaways in Pennsylvania

13:05 , Joe Sommerlad

The swing state’s governor, who almost became Harris’s running mate, has said Elon’s free money offer is “deeply concerning” and should be looked into by law enforcement.

Andrea Cavalier has more.

Josh Shapiro calls on cops to look at Musk’s $1 million giveaways in Pennsylvania

SNL mocks Harris’s Fox News interview and Trump’s dance-a-thon town hall

12:45 , Joe Sommerlad

Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live – this time as Bret Baier, not Trump – to send up the latter’s hostile interview with the Democrat last week.

Katie Hawkinson was watching.

SNL mocks Trump’s dance-a-thon town hall and Harris’s Fox News interview

Harris: Trump’s conduct ‘demeans the office’ of president

12:25 , Joe Sommerlad

Speaking to the Reverend Al Sharpton yesterday, the Democrat was asked about her rival calling her a “s*** vice president” the night before, to which she had this to say:

CNN host gets into awkward argument with top Republican about Trump’s bizarre Arnold Palmer comment

12:05 , Joe Sommerlad

“Is this really the closing message you want voters to hear from Donald Trump – stories about Arnold Palmer’s penis?” an incredulous Jake Tapper asked House speaker Mike Johnson on State of the Union yesterday.

Greg Evans has Johnson’s answer.

CNN host argues with top Republican about Trump’s bizarre Arnold Palmer comment

Obama on Trump: ‘Dude, you were president for four years!’

11:45 , Joe Sommerlad

The 44th president took his swing state tour on behalf of Kamala Harris to Las Vegas yesterday, where he wasted no time in taking Trump to task for his many failures of leadership.

Two other Black superstars speaking up for Kamala in key states over the weekend were Lizzo and Usher, the former cheering her on in Michigan and the latter in Georgia.

Tim Walz rips Trump over McDonald’s jaunt: ‘This guy spent decades stiffing workers’

11:25 , Joe Sommerlad

Harris’s running mate wasted no time in calling out his latest campaign stunt by pointing to his wretched track-record as an employer.

Meanwhile, here’s Trump declaring that he found true beauty by basking in the warm glow of the deep fat fryer.

Trump’s swing state Sunday: Republican takes in NFL game, declares he has ‘no cognitive’ and secures more wrestlers’ votes

11:05 , Joe Sommerlad

Here’s a look at what else Trump got up to on a busy Sunday in Pennsylvania.

He attended the Pittsburgh Steelers vs New York Jets NFL game, where he did not notice he was being given the finger in a viral video and got carried away enough to post this laughable AI fantasy image of himself on Truth Social.

Before that, he appeared at a Q&A in Lancaster where he denied being 80 (correct, he’s a mere boy of 78), said he has “no cognitive” and then quacked like a duck, lied about Black unemployment and scaremongered about urban crime.

Finally, he also found time to meet with WWE stars Kane and The Undertaker, who endorsed him for the White House.

Trump joins WWE stars as they endorse him for president

Campaign schedule: Who’s doing what where on Monday

10:45 , Joe Sommerlad

Here’s what the presidential candidates are up to today:

• Kamala Harris will be joined by Liz Cheney as she makes appearances in three suburban swing state counties won by Nikki Haley before she dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination earlier this year: Chester County, Pennsylvania, then Oakland County, Michigan, and finally Waukesha County, Wisconsin.

• Donald Trump will be in North Carolina, visiting Hurricane Helene-hit Ashville and meeting with faith leaders in Concord alongside his son Eric and his former housing secretary Dr Ben Carson before holding a rally in Greenville later.

• Tim Walz, Harris’s running mate, will meanwhile follow up his recent late-night appearance with Jimmy Kimmel by being interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

Elon Musk offers voters $1m to sign PAC petition. Can that be legal?

10:25 , Joe Sommerlad

The Trump-supporting tech billionaire is pledging to give away $1m to voters in the key swing state of Pennsylvania for signing his political action committee’s petition backing the Constitution.

The giveaway is raising questions and alarms among some election experts who say it is a violation of the law to link a cash handout to signing a petition that also requires a person to be registered to vote.

Here’s the influential horror novelist Stephen King raising precisely that objection on Musk’s own social media platform yesterday…

…and here’s a deep-dive into the thorny legality of the gesture.

Musk offers voters $1 million to sign PAC petition backing the Constitution. Can that be legal?

Trump raises eyebrows with crude anecdote about late golfer Arnold Palmer’s manhood

10:05 , Joe Sommerlad

If you thought the McDonald’s shift was weird, try this one on for size.

The Republican – who is running for president of the United States, don’t forget – was speaking in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night, hometown of the legendary golfer Arnold Palmer, when he was moved to say of the local hero: “This is a guy that was all man.

“He took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable.’ I had to say it.

“I had to tell you the shower part because it’s true.”

But Donald Trump is definitely not weird, OK guys?

Not even a little bit.

We’ll have more on the reaction to that eyebrow-raising remark shortly but, first up, here’s Katie Hawkinson’s report.

Trump raises eyebrows after crude 12-minute anecdote about Arnold Palmer manhood

Harris spends 60th birthday preaching compassion to Black churchgoers as Trump unexpectedly reaches out

09:45 , Joe Sommerlad

Kamala Harris spent Sunday, her 60th birthday, in the company of Black churchgoers at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, where she read the parable of the Good Samaritan and urged her audience to sow compassion and respect in their daily lives and do more than just “preach the values”.

Unexpectedly, Donald Trump appears to have been listening, briefly putting aside election hostilities to wish her a happy birthday in the spirit of brotherhood.

Here’s more on the Democratic nominee’s trip to church.

Harris tells Black churchgoers that people must show compassion and respect in their lives

CBS News finally hits back at Trump’s false 60 Minutes claims

09:25 , Joe Sommerlad

The broadcaster has at last come back at the former president over his repeated false claims that its show 60 Minutes edited its recent interview with Kamala Harris to make her answers appear more favorable.

In a statement issued to another CBS program, Face the Nation, on Sunday morning, the network declared: “Former president Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our October 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false.

“When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point.

“The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.”

It also reiterated its offer to Trump to sit down for his own Q&A after he backed out of an initial agreement to appear.

“Our long-standing invitation to former president Trump remains open.

“If he would like to discuss the issues facing the nation and the Harris interview, we would be happy to have him on 60 Minutes.”

Here’s more from James Liddell.

60 Minutes responds to Trump’s accusation it ‘deceitfully edited’ Harris interview

Watch: Trump attempts to troll Kamala Harris with McDonald’s stunt

09:05 , Joe Sommerlad

Here’s our video report on the Republican’s surreal Sunday gig.

Donald Trump tries to troll Kama Harris by serving up fries at McDonald’s

Donald Trump serves up disturbing message with fries at Pennsylvania McDonald’s

08:45 , Joe Sommerlad

Good morning!

Donald Trump spent one of the final Sundays of the election cycle working the fry cooker at a Pennsylvania branch of McDonald’s – the latest bizarre moment in a campaign that has increasingly become a tour of personal vendettas and aimless grudges, despite his aides’ best efforts to keep him on track.

The Republican presidential nominee is known for his love of the fast-food franchise but has become obsessed with the fact that his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris worked in one of its restaurants when she was a student, a detail he griped about during his stunt appearance in Lower Southampton.

The roughly hour-long photo opp closed down the branch in question entirely.

During the visit, Trump had an apron tied behind his back by a McDonald’s cashier before he recieved a short demonstration on how to work the fry station before sticking his head through the drive-thru window.

The former president proceeded to hand out a number of orders, chatting to supporters who were picking up their meals.

But as he took a question from a reporter through the window, Trump again resorted to baseless suggestions that the upcoming presidential election could be tainted by fraud, a charge he and running mate JD Vance have repeated about the 2020 vote.

“Will you accept the results of the election?” the journalist asked.

“Yeah, sure, if it’s a fair election,” came the ominious answer.

Here’s more on an odd afternoon from John Bowden.

Trump serves disturbing message through McDonald’s drive-thru window

ICYMI: Lizzo joins Kamala Harris in Michigan as election looms

08:00 , Andrea Cavallier

Can Harris beat Trump? Latest poll updates

07:00 , Andrea Cavallier

Vice President Kamala Harris will go head-to-head with Donald Trump in less than three weeks as Americans cast their votes in the 2024 election.

The race has only become tighter, with Harris just one point ahead of Trump in a new poll. The outcome of the election is anyone’s game.

See the latest poll results:

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates from the 2024 election

Josh Shapiro calls on cops to look into Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaways in Pennsylvania

04:00 , Andrea Cavallier

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Sunday that Elon Musk’s plans to give $1 million to registered voters who sign his super PAC’s petition is “deeply concerning” and should be looked into by law enforcement.

“I think there are real questions with how he is spending money in this race, how the dark money is flowing, not just into Pennsylvania, but apparently now into the pockets of Pennsylvanians,” Shapiro said in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. “That is deeply concerning.”

“I think it’s something that law enforcement could take a look at,” he added. “I’m not the attorney general anymore of Pennsylvania. I’m the governor, but it does raise some serious questions.”

Read more:

Josh Shapiro calls on cops to look at Musk’s $1 million giveaways in Pennsylvania

03:30 , Andrew Georgeson

Trump has been mocked online after appearing to call anchor Sage Steele, “Pagie” at the start of his town hall on Sunday afternoon.

Elon Musk and Marjorie Taylor Greene risk Dominion’s wrath

03:00 , John Bowden

More than a year after the company reached a record-breaking settlement with Fox News over similar claims, Elon Musk promoted a debunked conspiracy theory that suggested Dominion Voting Systems had manipulated the outcome of the 2020 election.

The Twitter CEO — who has been joined by Marjorie Taylor Greene in making false assertions about the company in recent days — could be risking a legal fight with the company that successfully forced Fox News into a multimillion-dollar settlement after the 2020 election.

Read more from Alex Woodward:

Elon Musk and Marjorie Taylor Greene revive voting machine conspiracy theories

02:30 , Andrew Georgeson

Trump’s busy day continues as he watches the Steelers take on the New York Jets in Pittsburg.

GOP Senate candidate has long claimed he was shot in Afghanistan. People are now questioning his story

02:00 , John Bowden

A key Senate race in Montana has long been viewed as Republicans’ best chance to unseat a Democratic incumbent this year. But a last-minute scandal may be brewing, as the Republican candidate in the race is now being accused of lying about being wounded in combat.

Matthew Brown has more:

GOP Senate candidate has claimed he was shot at war. People are questioning his story

Tim Walz collects $2 million in Boston

01:45 , Andrea Cavallier

Tim Walz collected $2.4 million for Kamala Harris’s joint fundraising committee in Boston on Sunday.

“We don’t stop in here to treat you like an ATM. What we understand is that the folks here can help,” Walz told the crowd.

“We need to win the ‘Blue Wall’ states. We need to be able to be down in Georgia. We need to be across this country. And the help you give us opens up 50 offices across Michigan.”

CNN host gets into awkward argument with top Republican about Trump’s bizarre Arnold Palmer comment

01:00 , John Bowden

CNN anchor Jake Tapper got into an awkward argument with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson about the odd comments that Donald Trump made about former professional golfer Arnold Palmer during a rally on Saturday.

With just days to go before the election on 7 November, Trump used a campaign rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Palmer’s birthplace to speak for 12 minutes about Palmer’s manhood.

Watch Johnson attempt to explain that moment on CNN:

CNN host argues with top Republican about Trump’s bizarre Arnold Palmer comment

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Covid vaccines may be responsible for ‘all time high’ cancer rates

Monday 21 October 2024 00:00 , John Bowden

Far-right Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said COVID-19 vaccines should be investigated in light of “all time high” in cancer rates, despite it being a debunked claim.

Greene’s latest suggestion that “we must investigate” COVID-19 vaccines to find answers for cancer rates is not based on any legitimate evidence, as COVID-19 vaccines have never been shown to cause cancer.

Read more from Katie Hawkinson:

MTG says Covid vaccines may be responsible for ‘all time high’ cancer rates

Trump serves disturbing message through McDonald’s drive-thru window about whether he’ll accept election result

Sunday 20 October 2024 23:00 , John Bowden

Donald Trump’s McDonald’s visit was served with a dash of his favorite topic: election denialism.

The former president created a kind of strange spectacle on Sunday as he stoked fears about election fraud while wearing an apron through the restaurant’s drive-thru window. The scene that played out in the Feasterville neighborhood of the Lower Southampton Township, where the former president and his campaign took over a McDonald’s franchise restaurant owned by one of his supporters.

Trump serves disturbing message through McDonald’s drive-thru window

Trump town hall begins in Lancaster

Sunday 20 October 2024 22:31 , John Bowden

Donald Trump’s town hall event is now live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where supporters were lined up for hours to see him speak. Kamala Harris, his opponent, is in Georgia today campaigning as well.

Watch Trump’s event here:

Arnold Palmer’s daughter says Trump’s vulgar ramblings were ‘an unfortunate way to remember my dad’

Sunday 20 October 2024 21:19 , John Bowden

In this exclusive interview with golf legend Arnold Palmer’s daughter, Peggy Palmer gives her thoughts on the bizarre aside Donald Trump made at a rally on Saturday where the GOP presidential candidate seemingly made an off-color remarks about her father’s genitals.

Read more from Justin Rohrlich:

Arnold Palmer’s daughter says Trump’s speech was ‘unfortunate way to remember my dad’

Trump says Haley will likely campaign with him

Sunday 20 October 2024 21:04 , John Bowden

Months after Nikki Haley came out against Donald Trump winning a second term in office and calling him an “unfit” candidate, Nikki Haley is set to join her former opponent on the campaign trail.

Her deployment comes as Trump is facing an eleventh-hour hemmorhaging of his support among women, and faces the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff essentially calling him an authoritarian.

Trump told reporters on Sunday that Haley would likely join him at an event in the coming days.

Trump due at town hall do-over

Sunday 20 October 2024 20:18 , John Bowden

Donald Trump is set to make another campaign appearance Sunday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as he tries to win back the swing state’s more rural areas and drive turnout ahead of November 5.

His appearance is set to be another “town hall”-style event, akin to the one last week where the former president danced onstage for nearly 40 minutes while avoiding questions from the audience, following a number of people experiencing heat-related emergiencies.

Trump makes fry cook debut at McDonalds

Sunday 20 October 2024 19:37 , John Bowden

Donald Trump put on an apron, worked the fryer and even spoke to reporters through the drive-thru window of a Lower Southampton, Pennsylvania-area McDonalds on Sunday in what is likely to go down as the strangest campaign stop of the 2024 cycle.

In his remarks to reporters during the campaign stop at various points, he attacked his opponent Kamala Harris for her description of the job as difficult; Harris worked at a McDonalds when she was younger, something the Trump campaign previously tried to claim was fake before pivoting to a staged display of how easy the job supposedly is.

Not pictured: any actual customers, well known for being the factor that determines how difficult a drive-thru restaurant can be.

Churchgoers sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to Harris in Georgia

Sunday 20 October 2024 17:32 , John Bowden

Kamala Harris didn’t take a day off the campaign trail for her 60th birthday on Sunday, and made a morning campaign appearance at New Birth Baptist Church in Georgia.

The gathering was advertised by the 10,000-member megachurch, which hosted Harris in the venue which seats 7,500 on Sunday. It’s part of her effort to moblize the Black church — a core part of African-American life in the deep south — to push her over the top in Georgia, a key swing state won by the Biden-Harris ticket in 2020 as part of their defeat of Donald Trump that year.

During her remarks, churchgoers began singing “Happy Birthday” to Harris, who responded that it was “her great joy” to spend her birthday with members of the Black church.

Kamala Harris turns 60 today

Sunday 20 October 2024 16:33 , John Bowden

Just a few months after the Democratic nominee for president was forced out of the race due to broadening concerns about his age and mental faculties, Kamala Harris, his vice president, has turned 60.

Harris’s milestone comes as her campaign is on the final stretch of a bid to put her in the Oval Office. Just a couple weeks remain before Election Day.

The vice president’s age, once an afterthought, is now one of her key advantages as she faces a Republican who would be the oldest to ever serve when he left office in 2029 were he to win another term in the White House.

Messages came in from her current and former running mates as Harris prepared to hit the campaign trail again in the coming days.

“Happy Birthday to my dear friend, partner, and a remarkable leader – Kamala Harris,” wrote President Joe Biden in a short statement posted to Twitter.

“Happy Birthday, @KamalaHarris! Thank you for bringing compassion, decency, and joy to our politics. I’m honored to be in this fight with you, and I couldn’t be prouder to call you my friend,” added Tim Walz.

Trump to work fry cooker at McDonald’s on Sunday

Sunday 20 October 2024 15:45 , John Bowden

Donald Trump is set to make a campaign stop at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s on Sunday.

But instead of chowing down on his 2,400-calorie order of choice – two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate milkshake – the GOP presidential nominee is expected to “work the fry cooker” in a Philadelphia branch.

It all comes after he made a very odd, sexually charged comment about famed golfer Arnold Palmer this weekend.

James Liddell has more:

Trump to work the fryer at McDonald’s after branding Harris’s summer job ‘fake’

ICYMI: Trump raises eyebrows after crude 12-minute anecdote about Arnold Palmer’s manhood

Sunday 20 October 2024 15:00 , Katie Hawkinson

Donald Trump shared a 12-minute anecdote about golfer Arnold Palmer at a Pennsylvania rally, prompting derision on social media after he made an off-color comment.

Trump was speaking in Latrobe, Palmer’s birthplace, on Saturday evening when the 12-minute tangent began. The former president began by praising Palmer’s career and describing his previous conversations with him.“There were a few golfers that you could say may be slightly better, a few, not many,” he said. “But there was nobody that had his magic.”

But the former president’s anecdote quickly devolved as he discussed some intimate details about the golfing icon.

Read more:

Trump raises eyebrows after crude 12-minute anecdote about Arnold Palmer manhood

Americans are addicted to gambling on the election because it’s finally legal, sort of

Sunday 20 October 2024 14:00 , Josh Marcus

People can’t get enough of betting on the 2024 presidential election, and thanks to a recent legal ruling, it’s easier than ever for Americans to vote with their wallet.

On Polymarket, one of the top online exchanges, people have already spent over $1.2 bn betting on the US presidential election. That includes two mystery individuals betting millions on a Trump win.

Betting market odds are suddenly on the lips of US broadcasters and campaign spin doctors, quoted like polls and watched like the weather.

Read more:

Americans are addicted to gambling on the election because it’s finally legal, kinda

ICYMI: Man who questioned Trump on pet-eating lies during Univision town hall admits he is now voting for Harris

Sunday 20 October 2024 13:00 , Katie Hawkinson

The man who questioned Donald Trump’s pet-eating lies during the Republican nominee’s recent Univision town hall has now revealed he’s voting for Democrat Kamala Harris.

José Saralegui, a registered Republican, asked Trump this week if he truly believes his own false claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating pets.

Read on:

Man who questioned Trump on pet-eating lies during town hall says he is voting Harris

ICYMI: Lizzo joins Kamala Harris in Michigan as election looms

Sunday 20 October 2024 12:00 , Katie Hawkinson

ICYMI: Donald Trump calls Kamala Harris ‘s***’

Sunday 20 October 2024 11:00 , Katie Hawkinson

Donald Trump called Kamala Harris a “s***” vice president while rallying in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on Saturday night.

“You have to tell Kamala Harris that you’ve had enough, that you just can’t take it anymore,” Trump said. “We can’t stand you. You’re a s*** vice president. The worst vice president, Kamala, you’re fired.”

Watch: Obama mocks Trump at Arizona rally

Sunday 20 October 2024 10:00 , Katie Hawkinson

Harris is turning to video games and sports betting to try and win back some of the ‘bro’ vote from Trump

Sunday 20 October 2024 09:00 , Katie Hawkinson

Kamala Harris is placing ads on video game and sports betting sites in an effort to win back the male vote – often referred to as the “bro” vote – from Donald Trump.

Harris is placing ads on DraftKings, a sports betting company, and Yahoo Sports, NBC News reports. Her campaign is now the first to advertise on DraftKings, the outlet added. She will also place ads on video game sites IGN and Fandom.

Some of these ads will be 30-second spots featuring celebrities such as NBA legend Magic Johnson and actor Ben Stiller.

Read more:

Harris is turning to video games and sports betting to try and win back male voters

Trump outsourced door-knocking campaigns in two key states to Musk-backed PAC. Up to 25 percent may have never happened

Sunday 20 October 2024 08:00 , Katie Hawkinson

Door-knocking data from the Elon Musk-backed America PAC in two key swing states could be fraudulent, a new report reveals.

About 24% of door-knocks in Arizona and 25% of door-knocks in Nevada over the last week by the PAC were flagged under “unusual survey logs” on the Campaign Sidekick canvassing app, which could potentially mean they are fraudulent, The Guardian reports.

Trump is leading Harris by just 2 points in Arizona, while the vice president is ahead one point in Nevada, according to the latest Emerson College poll.

Read more:

Trump door-knocking efforts by Musk-backed PAC could be false in two key states

Video: Kamala Harris questions Trump’s ability to be president if he’s exhausted by campaign

Sunday 20 October 2024 07:00

Watch: Trump shares endorsement from WWE wrestlers The Undertaker and Kane

Sunday 20 October 2024 06:00 , Katie Hawkinson

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates

Sunday 20 October 2024 05:01 , Alicja Hagopian

Vice President Kamala Harris will go head-to-head with Donald Trump in less than three weeks as Americans cast their votes in the 2024 election.

The race has only become tighter, with Harris just one point ahead of Trump in a new poll. The outcome of the election is anyone’s game.

While Trump appears to have leveled the playing field in multiple swing states, the Senate races are now a stress point for the Republican Party, with key candidates trailing Democrats in the polls.

So how will Harris and Trump fare in November?

Read on:

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates from the 2024 election

Arnold Palmer’s daughter once said her dad would ‘cringe’ at Donald Trump

Sunday 20 October 2024 04:30 , Katie Hawkinson

Arnold Palmer’s daughter once said the iconic golfer would “cringe” at former president Donald Trump.

“One moment stands out in my mind,” Palmer’s daughter, Peg, told a writer who worked on the golfer’s biography. “My dad and I were at home in Latrobe. He died in September, so this was before the election. The television was on. Trump was talking. And my dad made a sound of disgust — like ‘uck’ or ‘ugg’ — like he couldn’t believe the arrogance and crudeness of this man who was the nominee of the political party that he believed in.”

“Then he said, ‘He’s not as smart as we thought he was,’ “ and walked out of the room. What would my dad think of Donald Trump today? I think he’d cringe.”

Today, Trump told a 12-minute anecdote about the golfer in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he was born.

Trump at one point made an off-color comment about Palmer, prompting derision on social media.

“He took showers with the other pros,” Trump said of Palmer on Saturday. “They came out of there they said, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable.’”