US election 2024 live: Harris, Trump too close to call with two weeks to go
- With only two weeks to go until the United States presidential election, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are in a race to secure all the support they can get. Polls show that they are neck-and-neck across the country – and in battleground states.
- Vice President Harris will be appearing in a primetime one-on-one interview on NBC Nightly News, while former President Donald Trump is attending a round table in Florida with Latino leaders, before a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina in the evening.
Trump leading Harris among Arab Americans
Donald Trump is narrowly leading Kamala Harris among Arab Americans, a new poll suggests. It’s the latest sign that the war in Gaza is costing Democrats support among voters, including in the key battleground state of Michigan.
Trump leads Harris 45 percent to 43 percent among Arab Americans, according to the Arab News/YouGov poll released on Monday. He is also seen as more likely to successfully resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict – despite his heavy support for Israel during his presidency – leading Harris 39 percent to 33 percent on the question, according to the poll.
Asked which issues were the biggest concern to the Arab-American community, 29 percent of respondents chose the Israel-Palestine conflict, ahead of 21 percent who picked the economy and the cost of living and 13 percent who chose racism and discrimination.
Arab-American voters are seen as potentially critical to Harris’s election prospects due to their high concentration in Michigan, one of seven swing states expected to decide the outcome of the vote.
In September, the mayor of Michigan’s Hamtramck, the first US city with an all-Muslim government, endorsed Trump, describing the Republican as a “man of principles” and “the right choice”.
Biden won Michigan by about 150,000 votes in 2020, while Trump carried the state by only about 11,000 voters in 2016.
