Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are tied in Michigan, a battleground state, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University survey. A statewide poll of 500 likely voters between October 24 and 27 found Harris and Trump close, 47% to 47%, with findings that fall within the poll’s margin of error of 4.4 percentage points. According to the poll of 300 potential voters in Kent County, Michigan, which has historically been a bellwether for the state, Harris leads Trump 47% to 46%. The results are within the poll’s 5.7 percentage point margin of error.
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07:52 AM EDT
Bob Woodward: Trump’s ‘interest is only himself’
Journalist Bob Woodward that “you can never get in the mind of Donald Trump” in an interview this morning with MSNBC. He added that the former president’s “interest is only himself.”
07:47 AM EDT
Kamala Harris’ crowd size crushes previous record with Ellipse speech
More than 75,000 spectators gathered in Washington, D.C., to hear Vice President Kamala Harris‘ closing argument speech at the same site of former President Donald Trump‘s infamous “Save America” rally that preceded the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Harris’ event at the Ellipse arrived one week before Election Day and followed Trump’s closing arguments at Madison Square Garden on Sunday that received backlash for its inflammatory and racist rhetoric.
As the vice president took the stage Tuesday night, her campaign’s rapid response director, Ammar Moussa, posted to his account on X, formerly Twitter, that there were “OVER 75,000 people on the National Mall to watch Kamala Harris deliver her closing remarks.”
“Here. We. Go,” Moussa added.
CNN later reported that the Ellipse was at capacity and some guests were directed to an overflow area on the National Mall, per a Harris campaign official.
07:44 AM EDT
Trump slams Harris’s speech at the Ellipse as ‘terrible’
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the ballroom of the Mar-a-Lago Club on October 29, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. With one week until Election Day, Trump is scheduled to travel to the battleground state of Pennsylvania to campaign in Drexel Hill and Allentown. Trump called Kamala Harris’s closing argument speech “terrible.”
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Donald Trump shared a post to Truth Social early this morning to call Kamala Harris’s closing argument speech to voters at the Ellipse in Washington D.C. “terrible.”
“Kamala’s speech was terrible, full of lies and nothing now,” he wrote. “Where are the jobs? There are none!”
07:38 AM EDT
Campaign tracker: Where are the candidates today?
Newsweek is tracking where the presidential candidates have been holding events and where they’re planning to go next.
Trump will have two rallies in crucial swing states today, one in North Carolina and one in Wisconsin later in the day. These states combine for 26 Electoral College votes, which might make the difference in November.
Vance is in Pennsylvania, another swing state, following in Trump’s footsteps.
Kamala Harris is also touring several swing states today, including North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Donald Trump will visit several of these states at the same time as her.
Tim Walz will give media interviews for Good Morning America before heading to the campaign trail for rallies in North Carolina.
