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https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/03/polit...index.html

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Election 2024 updates: Harris and Trump gear up for 2-month sprint to finish line.

New polls show a tight race between Vice 
President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump just months from Nov. 5. Neither candidate is on the trail today.

1) President Joe Biden talked up his administration's efforts to spur private investment in U.S. manufacturing this afternoon. Vice President Kamala Harris has no public events.

2( Former President Donald Trump has several campaign stops planned for later this week, including in New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

3) Second gentleman Doug Emhoff participates this evening in a Jewish Voters for Harris-Walz call.

Harris is announcing a new policy plan that her campaign said would aim to boost small business applications by expanding tax deductions for startup expenses tenfold from $5,000 to $50,000, according to a Harris campaign official, who requested anonymity to reveal details of a still-unreleased proposal. She’ll also seek to cut red tape “like wasting time and money on filing taxes or needing excessive occupational licenses across state lines to expand,” said the official.
Harris’ goal is to boost small business applications to 25 million in her first term, up from 19 million so far during the Biden administration, according to government statistics from mid-August. The Harris official said it’s “part of a concentrated strategy to take Harris’ economic agenda directly to voters on the airwaves, and to contrast it with Trump’s plans to give billionaires and big corporations a tax cut.”

The Trump campaign panned Harris' proposal.

“It’s laughable that Kamala Haris is trying to pitch herself as good for the economy when she has been a fierce advocate for Bidenomics, which is crushing small business owners,” Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokesperson, told NBC News.
“She could fix these problems right now as vice president, but she hasn’t.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-el...rcna169184

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Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates. Here’s what the latest polls say about the 2024 presidential election, from The Independent’s data correspondent.

Vice President Kamala Harris is making a bid for the White House with running mate Tim Walz after replacing President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket months before Election Day. Fresh polls suggest that the Harris-Trump gender divide is growing, and the rural-urban-suburban split is staying strong.

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Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates. Here’s what the latest polls say about the 2024 presidential election, from The Independent’s data correspondent.

Vice President Kamala Harris is making a bid for the White House with running mate Tim Walz after replacing President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket months before Election Day. Fresh polls suggest that the Harris-Trump gender divide is growing, and the rural-urban-suburban split is staying strong.

So how will Harris actually fare against Trump in November?


While independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr suspended his presidential campaign in August and endorsed Trump, there been no clear ripple effect as yet, with neither candidate receiving a substantial boost in support.
Who's ahead in the national polls?Harris has a +3.1 point lead over Trump in an average of national polls. For latest polling analysis, click here.......https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...06929.html

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A new poll up to September 2 by Activote has Harris’s lead at just 1.6 percent, following weeks of a 5-point lead.

Latest poll show: The poll of 1,000 likely voters is self-selected, as respondents choose to download the app and contribute.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...nald-trump

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CNN polls across 6 battlegrounds find Georgia & Pensylvania r key toss-ups.

The 2024 presidential campaign’s home stretch kicks off with a mixed outlook across 6 key battlegrounds, new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in each state. 

Vice President Kamala Harris holds an small advantage over former President Donald Trump among likely voters in Wisconsin and Michigan, Trump edge in Arizona. The two split likely voters almost evenly in Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania, the state with the largest electoral vote prize that’s widely seen as up for grabs.

Across each of them, an average of 15% of likely voters say they have not yet firmly decided their choice, suggesting a sizable share of voters could shift their views on race as attention to campaign rises and campaign activity, especially in these states, hits a fever pitch in final 9-weeks b4 Election.

Likely voters in Wisconsin break 50% for Harris to 44% for Trump, and in Michigan, it’s 48% Harris to 43% Trump. In Arizona, Trump lands at 49% to Harris’ 44%. In Georgia and Nevada, 48% back Harris & 47% for Trump. in Pennsylvania, the candidates are tied at 47%.

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Findings suggest an Electoral College landscape where Pennsylvania & Georgia are central to each candidate’s path to the White House. 

President Joe Biden carried all six of these states in 2020, winning Georgia by just under 12,000 votes and Arizona by a little over 10,000 votes. Were Harris to hold Biden’s 2020 wins outside of these six states & carry Wisconsin and Michigan, a win in Pennsylvania plus a single electoral vote from anywhere else would give her presidency. 

Should Trump hold North Carolina – a state he carried in 2020 & is widely considered a battleground in this year’s contest – wins in Georgia and Pennsylvania would put him over the top regardless of what happens in Wisconsin, Michigan or Nevada. 

In that scenario, even Arizona, where he currently holds a narrow lead, would not be necessary for Trump to win another term as president.

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/art...-djt-stock

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The candidates will debate next week in what will be their first meeting ever. The nation’s premier swing state, Pennsylvania, begins in-person absentee voting the week after. By end of month, early voting will be underway in at least 4-states with a dozen more to follow by mid-October.
The two presidential nominees are using the week before their debate to sharpen their economic messages about who could do more for the middle class. Vice President Kamala Harris discussed her policy plans on Wednesday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, while Donald Trump will address the Economic Club of New York on Thursday.

Harris used the New Hampshire campaign stop to propose an expansion of tax incentives for small businesses, a pro-entrepreneur plan that may soften her previous calls for wealthy Americans and large corporations to pay higher taxes. Trump, meanwhile, is betting that Americans crave trillions of dollars in tax cuts — and that growth will be so fantastic that it’s not worth worrying about budget deficits.
https://apnews.com/article/harris-trump-...5ab34b6de1

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Election 2024: Trump supports Elon Musk-backed government spending plan; Harris travels to Pittsburgh ahead of the debate

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden changed his plea on federal tax charges, staving off what could have been a potentially embarrassing trial.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-el...rcna169376

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/articl...er-dispute

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Per Gallup: Among U.S. adults, favorable rating of Harris increased 13 percentage points since June, to 47% — second only to a 53% rating she received shortly after becoming vice president.

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Harris or Trump? The Prophet of Presidential Elections Is Ready to Call the Race.

By Allan Lichtman, Nayeema Raza and Adam Westbrook •September 5, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/10...ction.html

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https://abcnews.go.com/

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Trump takes no questions at lengthy news conference on his legal cases.
Former president Donald Trump held a news conference Friday in New York at which he took no questions but aired complaints for more than 45 minutes about legal cases he faces & addressed Fraternal Order of Police in Charlotte following group’s announcement that it would endorse him.

Vice President Kamala Harris remained in Pittsburgh, where aides say she is preparing for Tuesday’s debate with Trump. Harris’s coordinated campaign raised $361 million in August, nearly three times as much as the $130 million collected by the coordinated effort of Trump, her campaign announced Friday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections...ris-trump/

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Harris’s Combative Debate Style Will Get Its Biggest Test Against Trump.
Kamala Harris’s razor-sharp debate skills have powered her political ascent. Her success next week will turn on how well she adapts to an unpredictable rival.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/us/po...ebate.html

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Countdown to the debate: Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are in the final stretch of the 2024 campaign, with the two gearing up for their first presidential debate on Tuesday.

Campaign activities: The former president held a rally in the battleground state of Wisconsin, while Harris continues debate preparations in Pittsburgh, where she met voters briefly at a local store today. Her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will speak tonight at an event in Washington, DC.

Dick Cheney endorses Harris: The former Republican vice president said he’ll vote for Harris in the upcoming election and denounced Trump as a historic “threat to our republic.” His daughter, former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, said she will campaign against Trump in swing states.