Tight polls as Trump, Harris campaign in Wisconsin
- With four days to go until the US presidential election, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris are campaigning in Midwestern swing states.
- Trump will hold two rallies today in Warren, Michigan, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Georgia official says Russian trolls to blame for video claiming illegal voting
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said his state has been targeted with a video that’s “obviously fake” and likely the product of Russian trolls “attempting to sow discord and chaos on the eve of the election”.
The video, which began circulating on the social media platform X on Thursday afternoon, claims to show a Haitian immigrant with multiple Georgia IDs who says he is planning to vote multiple times in two counties.
“This is false and is an example of targeted disinformation we’ve seen this election,” Raffensperger said.
The original video was no longer on X by this morning, but copycat versions are still being shared widely.
Why is Kamala Harris losing Indian American voters?
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is projected to lose a segment of her party’s traditional share of Indian American voters – who have historically sided with the Democrats – in the 2024 United States election, a new survey of the community’s political attitudes has found.
Even though Harris could become the first-ever Indian American president of the US, a survey by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has found that she is likely to secure fewer votes from the community than incumbent President Joe Biden did in 2020.
Trump and Liz Cheney’s war of words
Lawmaker Liz Cheney said Trump’s violent comment suggesting she should face a firing squad for her foreign policy stance showed he could not be entrusted with the White House and would target his enemies in office.
Her comments came a day after Trump launched yet another attack on Cheney, calling the former Wyoming congresswoman a “very dumb individual” and a “war hawk” during an event in Glendale, Arizona.
One of the most high-profile Republicans to turn against Trump, Cheney has endorsed Harris in the November 5 contest, saying she crossed party lines to put the country before politics and calling Trump a “danger”.
Trump called Cheney “a deranged person,” then added, “But the reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. If it were up to her we’d be in 50 different countries.”
What do the latest election polls say?
As the race comes down to the wire, polls are continuing to show a very tight race.
Nationally, according to FiveThirtyEight’s poll aggregator, Democrat Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump by a meager 1.4 points.
In Wisconsin and Michigan, two key swing states where Trump and Harris will be campaigning today, the margin is even slimmer.
Harris is technically ahead in both, by 0.7 points in Wisconsin and 1.1 in Michigan.
However, election analysts have told Al Jazeera, when the polls are this close, the race can be considered a virtual tie.
The Economist is officially backing Harris
“While some newspapers refused to back a presidential candidate this year, today The Economist is endorsing Kamala Harris,” reads a statement from the editors of the UK magazine, published yesterday.
The Washington Post was the most high-profile publication to sit out the election, saying last week that it would not be endorsing any candidate in this race or any in the future.
“Americans would be gambling with the economy, the rule of law and international peace,” if they elect Trump, the editors’ statement continues.
“Harris’s shortcomings, by contrast, are ordinary. And none of them are disqualifying”.
As Trump, Harris woo Arab Americans, Michigan mayor readies to up pressure
Abdullah Hammoud, mayor of the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, has not endorsed any of the presidential candidates, urging residents of his majority Muslum community to “vote their conscience” instead.
The 34-year-old is one of the most prominent Arab American elected officials in the US who served in the state Legislature.
He stressed the need to come out and vote so his community can make its voice heard amid Israel’s wars on Gaza and in Lebanon, and the US’s support for those wars.
Candidates support divided among men and women
The final days of the US election campaign have become a literal battle of the sexes.
Polls show Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris leads among female voters, while a majority of men lean towards her political rival.
With national polls showing a near tie between the two, voter turnout is critical.
Currently, women are outpacing men in casting ballots in all seven battleground states.
