Presidential polls live updates: Kamala Harris's surge in Republican voters in a key swing state

Rapper and producer Lord Jamar is tearing into Kamala Harris as her campaign struggles with securing black male support.

Jamar, 56, stunningly admitted that he doesn't believe Harris is competent enough to be commander-in-chief on the Art of Dialogue podcast.

This woman, to me, is not qualified to run, you know, a Dunkin’ Donuts or a 7-Eleven, let alone the corporation that we call the United States of America.

He went on to say that she is 'insulting to black people' before saying that he is endorsing Donald Trump.

Jamar also made a cameo in the hit mob boss show The Sopranos.

He went on to contrast her with former President Barack Obama, saying she's 'not the same type of orator.'

She cackles all the f***ing time. She lies. She doesn’t answer a f***ing question.

Not once during that debate did she answer anything that was asked of her.

The rapper's remarks come as Harris is struggling to shore up black voter support.

Republicans supporting Kamala Harris say that there's a 'silent majority' of Americans that will give her the edge over Trump.

The former lawmakers say that pollsters may have overlooked these Americans as they collect data.

Polls show that Trump and Harris are neck-and-neck in nearly every battleground state heading into the last few weeks of the campaign.

Former GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock told the Daily Beast:

I think there’s a silent majority. I think there’s a silent group of women who will crawl over broken glass to vote against Trump and who will quietly vote for Harris.

Comstock is joining nearly 100 other Republicans on the campaign trail for Kamala Harris today.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

The Southern California sheriff who accused a man with guns outside a Donald Trump rally over the weekend of plotting an assassination claims it's 'odd' that a lawsuit was brought against him so quickly.

Vem Miller, 49, is suing Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco for defamation after he and his deputies claimed publicly that they 'probably' prevented an attempt on the former president's life.

'I do find it odd. Probably the fastest lawsuit filed in history; the next business day,' Sheriff Bianco told DailyMail.com when asked about the legal action.

'One could argue it was already prepared and planned,' he added. 'It just gets more odd.'

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

President Joe Biden began his remarks at the Ethel Kennedy memorial service with self deprecating jokes.

‘I’m sure you’re clapping because I’m the last speaker,’ Biden said after getting a big round of applause when he rose to speak. He followed a performance by Stevie Wonder of his hit ‘Isn’t She Lovely’ whiel accompanied by a harpist.

‘You know what he said on the way out? Can I tell them, Pal? He said “If I get a grammy I’m going to give it to you.” The only guy in this whole darned church who can’t sing a note.’

‘My dad used to have a band and sang. He said, “Joey, I don’t know where the hell you came from. You can’t carry at tune, you can’t sing, you can’t dance. I don’t know where you came from but I love you anyway.’

The president acknowledged President Clinton, President Obama, and distinguished guests. ‘It’s been an emotional journey listening to all of you.’

The he praised Kennedy, and recalled how she reached out to him when he was a newly-elected senator after an accident killed his first wife Nelia and daughter Naomi and injured his two sons. ‘Ethel was always there for so many people, and she played an essential role in my life as well, when I lost my family. And she was there. Joe, your mom was there, then' he told Joe Kennedy III.

She said she wrote him a note 'as soon as I got elected president,' although he also appeared to reference the time he got elected to the Senate. It said she ‘took great comfort in knowing the country was in good hands,’ Biden said. ‘She had no idea for a 29 year old kid in that circumstance how much it meant.’ She said she was 'honored and proud' there was a bust of RFK in the Oval Office.

Vice President Kamala Harris escalating her outreach to Republicans in Pennsylvania, as polls show she is getting some support from some of them who do not want to support former President Donald Trump.

Harris campaigned in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, reminding voters in the state she had support from Republicans who had formerly worked for Ronald Reagan, John McCain, and Mitt Romney as well as the support from Rep. Liz Cheney.

Polls show that Harris is making some inroads among Republicans in the state.

A New York Times/Siena College/Philadelphia Inquirer poll revealed that Harris is winning 12 percent of Republicans in the commonwealth.

The survey of 857 likely voters was conducted from October 7-10 with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

The Times poll shows that Trump is also winning 10 percent of registered Democrats.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Social media trolls are signing up to attend Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally with no intention of going, but the joke may be on them.

The ex-president's rally in the heart of Manhattan at the legendary arena may not win him the state of New York, but it will galvanize Trump's growing enthusiasm in the area - particularly among minority communities with whom his support has been surging recently.

Trump and his campaign hope to sell out the 19,500 seats at MSG on Sunday, October 27, but some are already threatening to derail the event.

Anti-Trumpers George Conway - the ex-husband of the former president's close advisor Kellyanne Conway - and Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project - have suggested that their scores of X followers should sign up for the rally and not show up.

A new poll shows Donald Trump ahead in the battleground state of Georgia while Kamala Harris leads in North Carolina.

According to Quinnipiac, Trump is polling at 52 percent in Georiga while Harris is at 45 percent.

In North Carolina, Harris is polling at 49 percent while Trump is polling at 47 percent, within the margin of error.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Former President Bill Clinton had a bizarre moment while eulogizing the late Ethel Kennedy before a crowd of influential politicians and Kennedy family members.

During his remarks at the Kennedy matriarch's funeral Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., Clinton revealed to the crowd what he really thought of Robert Kennedy's widow.

'I thought your mother was the cat’s meow,' Bill said about the late 96-year-old.

'She would flirt with me in the most innocent ways,' he continued to cautious laughs from the audience.

Former President Bill Clinton had a bizarre moment while eulogizing the late Ethel Kennedy before a crowd of influential politicians and Kennedy family members.

During his remarks at the Kennedy matriarch's funeral Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., Clinton revealed to the crowd what he really thought of Robert Kennedy's widow.

'I thought your mother was the cat’s meow,' Bill said about the late 96-year-old.

'She would flirt with me in the most innocent ways,' he continued to cautious laughs from the audience.

The former president pressed on, seemingly making another joke about how she had 11 children.

'I remember once I said 'you know we're not at replacement population anymore and all the politics are anti-immigrant, what are we gonna do?''

'We need more people like you,' he recounted joking to Kennedy about her large brood.

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign has reportedly pulled local television advertising in Milwaukee.

That's according to Dan O'Donnell of the Dan O'Donnell Show on New Talk Radio 1130 in Wisconsin.

He reported that the resources are being reallocated to Philadelphia where the campaign is reportedly concerned about turnout in the upcoming election.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Jimmy Carter fulfilled his dying wish to cast his vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

The 100-year-old former president’s ballot was deposited in a drop box at the Sumter County Courthouse near his home in Plains, Georgia, according to the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Early voting started on Tuesday in Georgia and more than 300,000 people cast their ballots in the first day of 2024 voting in the Peach State.

Carter told his family that he was more interested in voting for Harris than even reaching centennial birthday earlier this month.

The Democrat who entered hospice two years ago would need to be alive on Election Day on November 5 for his vote to officially count in the 2024 election.

Former President Jimmy Carter was last seen publicly at his wife Rosalynn's funeral on November 29, 2023 – nearly a year after he first entered at-home hospice care

As voters go to the polls to cast their ballot in the presidential race, DailyMail.com asked if they were confident in the security and fairness of their commonwealth's elections.

President Joe Biden will travel to Angola during the first week of December, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Wednesday

The president had put off the planned trip to monitor the approaching Hurricane Milton, which slammed across Florida earlier this month.

The Angola trip will be his first to Africa as president.

Biden is set to fly to Germany on Thursday. Jean Pierre described the trip as an acknowledgement of ‘Chancellor Scholz's bold decision to participate in the prisoner swap this summer’ that freed detained Americans held in Russia, calling his efforts ‘vital’ to securing the release of Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan.

Donald Trump called Nancy Pelosi and 'sick and evil' and claimed Democrats are 'Marxists'.

His comments came in a Fox News town hall with an all-women audience.

Trump said:

Pelosi and these people, they're so sick and they're so evil.

He added:

They're Marxists and communists and fascists and they're sick.

Trump repeated a previous claim that Democrats are 'the enemy from within'.

Former President Donald Trump has a five point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in Texas with early voting in the state kicking off in less than a week. But the Senate race in the Lone Star State could be razor-thin.

The ex-president is polling at 51 percent to Harris' 46 percent among likely Texas voters, according to the poll conducted by University of Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs.

Another one percent of likely voters are supporting other candidates while two percent are still undecided.

But when it comes to the Texas Senate race, Republican Senator Ted Cruz is facing a formidable challenger in Democratic Congressman Colin Allred as Republicans view holding the seat as crucial as they look to flip the Senate in November.

By NIkki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to deliver what's being described as a major speech at the locale where George Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas and reignited the American Revolution.

Harris will speak Wednesday afternoon at Washington Crossing Historic Park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, surrounded by Republicans who are supporting her bid for the White House.

That will include former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two GOP members on the House January 6th committee, along with former GOP Reps. Barbara Comstock, Jim Greenwood, Mickey Edwards, Denver Riggleman, Chris Shays, David Trott, former New Jersey. Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan.

Harris is hoping to grow her base by imploring Republicans to choose country over party, pointing to former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election and stay in power.

She was previously joined on the campaign trail by the most prominent anti-Trump Republican, former Rep. Liz Cheney, at the birthplace of the Republican Party - Ripon, Wisconsin.

Washington, the nation's first president, set the precedent for a peaceful transition of power.

From Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent for DailyMail.com

Donald Trump will be manning the fry station at a McDonald's in Philadelphia on Sunday, according to a campaign source.

It is the latest effort to tweak Kamala Harris and what Trump and his aides say is a fake story about working at McDonald's when she was a student.

Trump trailed the stunt last month at an event in Indiana, Pennsylvania. 'I think I’m going to go to a McDonald’s next week someplace –  it might not be here in your place,' he said.

Harris campaign sources roll their eyes at Trump's claims that she lied about a vacation job.

Vice President Harris worked at McDonald’s during the summer of 1983 in Alameda, California while she was a student at Howard University. She worked the register and manned the fry and ice cream machines.

Reporters have been unable to corroborate the story. But in age when records were not computerized and casual staff may have slipped on and off the radar, that may mean nothing.

Several passages in Vice President Kamala Harris' first book have been found to have been lifted from Wikipedia and other sources without attribution, according to a bombshell new report.

Harris published her first book 'Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer' in 2009, with co-author Joan O’C Hamilton.

Author and activist Christopher Russo published details of the book on his Substack on Monday, citing famous Austrian 'plagiarism hunter' Stefan Weber, who says he found more than a dozen fragments of plagiarism.

Weber's report shows that Harris copied verbatim content from Wikipedia, Goodwill Industries, her partner on her 'Back on Track' crime program, and other online sources.

But her campaign is firing back in a statement to the Washington Post.

'Rightwing operatives are getting desperate as they see the bipartisan coalition of support Vice President Harris is building to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions about his lies,' said campaign spokesman James Singer.

'This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the Vice President clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout.'

The Michigan firefighters union decided to skip out on endorsing Kamala Harris after major International Association of Fire Fighters snub earlier this month.

'We are following the IAFF recommendation on the presidential election,' the head of the union told Politico.

He added: 'However, we have made it clear to our members that our executive board believes Harris is the best choice for supporting our labor issues.'

Donald Trump branded himself the 'father of IVF ' during a town hall event with women on Tuesday where his flip-flopping on abortion came under intense scrutiny.

Trump has gone one way then the other as he tries to placate evangelical Republicans and keep female voters onside over the tricky issue of reproductive health.

At the same time he has turned to the issue of in-vitro fertilization as a practice he can wholeheartedly endorse, after a court in conservative Alabama this year ruled that embryos were 'unborn children' effectively outlawing the procedure.

'We really are the party for IVF,' Trump told Fox News host Harris Faulkner.

'We want fertilization, and it’s all the way, and the Democrats tried to attack us on it, and we're out there on IVF, even more than them. So, we’re totally in favor.'

Donald Trump hit a new 20-point high against Kamala Harris this morning on the betting platform Polymarket.

With just 20 days until the election, the polls continue to show the race is shaping up to be one of the closest in history.

Some political analysts claim that odds and betting platforms are a better predictor of outcomes than polling in the modern political sphere.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Both presidential nominees will make appearances on Fox News on Wednesday.

Donald Trump taped a women-focused town hall with Fox host Harris Faulkner in Georgia that will air Wednesday morning.

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris will speak with Fox host Bret Baier on his program Wednesday evening.

The vice president has faced widespread criticism for her media strategy and for refusing several sit-downs – like with Time Magazine – and instead opting for more nontraditional avenues like with raunchy, sex-focused podcast Call Her Daddy.

Trump has spoken with Fox News several times and often goes on the network to appeal to his base and other Republicans.

Donald Trump (left) sat with Fox News host Harris Faulkner (right) for a town hall in Georgia focused on women voters and women's issues that will air Wednesday morning

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Michelle Obama will go to bat for Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally exactly a week before Election Day.

The former first lady will headline a rally in Atlanta, Georgia on October 29 with celebrities and civic leaders at an event focused on engaging minority and young and first-time voters.

The event is hosted by the Obama-founded group When We All Vote, which seeks to reach out to those less likely to engage in politics and U.S. elections.

It’s unclear which celebrities will make an appearance later this month, but group co-chairs include actors Tom Hanks, Kerry Washington and Lin-Manuel Miranda; professional basketball players Stephen Curry and Chris Paul; musical artists Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez, Becky G, H.E.R. and Janelle Monáe; as well as beauty influencer Bretman Rock.

Georgia is one of the most crucial states to clinching a presidential victory in November.

Obama’s rally in the swing state proves the importance of Harris winning there as the former first lady is one of the Democrat’s best-known figures.

Former President Barack Obama and his wife both gave speeches in support of Harris at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois in August.

Early voting is already underway in Georgia and the rally will take place right before early voting ends in the state on November 1.

The Obamas have a lot of star power behind their name and usually bring with them a lot of celebrities. Above comedian Keegan-Michael Key speaks during a 'When We All Vote' rally in Miamia, Florida, on September 28

Elon Musk has become a key donor to Donald Trump's presidential campaign after he gave $75 million to his pro-Trump super PAC over the past three months.

The tech billionaire is hoping to trigger a 'red wave' in crucial swing states with the expectation that former President Trump could ride the wave back to the White House.

America PAC, which was founded by Musk to focus on turning out voters in closely contested states, spent around $72 million of those funds in the July-September period alone - according to disclosures filed to the Federal Election Commission.

It comes after Kamala Harris raised $1 billion in just two months and Democrats are trouncing Republicans in the fundraising department.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Only one percentage point divides Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in a new Marquette Law School Poll national survey.

Asked about casting their ballot tomorrow, 48 percent said they would vote for the vice president and 47 percent said they would vote for Trump.

The survey was conducted October 1-10 and included responses from 886 registered voters across the country.

The slimming divide comes as other national surveys also see the gap closing between the two candidates and Harris’ lead over the former president nearly disappearing.

But the Marquette poll revealed that despite voter preferences, 53 percent think Harris will definitely or probably win and 47 percent say the same about Trump.

There are less than three weeks until Election Day and thousands of Americans have already cast their ballots either through mail-in voting or early voting in their states.

Voters in battleground state Georgia have turned out to cast their ballots in record numbers as early voting begins.

Some 328,000 Georgians cast early in-person or mail votes, more than double the previous record of 136,000 in 2020, the year that Joe Biden scraped through with less than 12,000 votes.

Winning the state's 16 electoral college votes would give either Trump or Harris a high chance of winning the overall election.

Meanwhile, a judge on Tuesday evening blocked a rule that would have required counties to hand-count ballots on Election Day.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said it would have caused 'administrative chaos' during the election.

Democratic nominee Kamala Harris has refused numerous interviews ahead of Election Day, and now she's denying one to an outlet owned by a former Democratic presidential contender.

It was revealed Tuesday that Harris's campaign rejected Bloomberg News' proposal for an interview in addition to CNBC and Time Magazine.

The company was famously founded by former New York Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, who ran in 2020 before dropping out to endorse Biden.