2024 presidential election live updates: Poll shows Trump and Kamala in a dead heat… but a candidate leading in a crucial swing state

Ask any of the Donald Trump fans at his Wednesday night Long Island rally whether he should debate Kamala Harris again and the the answer is unanimous: Yes.

‘I think you should go for it,’ said Andrew Peters, a 49-year-old bodyshop owner, wearing a ‘F**k Hamas‘ T-shirt. ‘What’s he got to lose?’

Trump has repeatedly ruled out the idea after declaring himself the victor of last week’s televised clash.

But a J.L. Partners poll for DailyMail.com reveals that American voters are overwhelmingly in favor of seeing the two candidates pit their wits against each for a second time, including a clear majority of Trump’s own supporters.

The survey of 1000 likely voters found that 63 percent said they should meet again on the debate stage.

Only 19 percent said there was no need.

When just Republicans were taken into account, 54 percent wanted a second debate. And that grew to 59 percent of people who said they intended to vote for Trump himself in November.

Jeffries, speaking at his weekly press conference, tore into Republicans for spewing ‘lies’ about Haitian migrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio:

Donald Trump, JD Vance, Congressman Molinaro and others are lying about Haitian immigrants in Ohio.

And it is dangerous rhetoric that is going to get people hurt. Why won’t my extreme Republican colleagues simply debate us on issues and articulate their vision for America versus our vision.

Why do they have to engage in conspiracy theories and lies? It’s because they have no track record of accomplishment and no clear vision for the future.

So we’re going to call out their reckless and destructive behavior. And at the same time, continue to articulate our vision for making life better for the American people.

District Judge Maryellen Noreika set a new sentencing date for President Joe Biden’s son.

He was originally scheduled to be sentenced on November 13, but Noreika moved the date to December 4 after his attorneys asked for the date to be pushed back.

He was dramatically found guilty of three criminal charges in his blockbuster gun and drugs trial.

A jury in Wilmington, Delaware unanimously convicted Joe Biden’s son of two counts of lying on a federal government form to buy a gun, and one count of possessing the firearm while abusing drugs.

Jurors deliberated for less than three hours after a trial that had lasted over a week.

The swift and historic conviction marked the first time a sitting U.S. President’s child has been found guilty of a federal crime. He could now face up to a maximum of 25 years in jail.

Hunter is separately set to be sentenced a little over a week later on December 16 after pleading guilty in Los Angeles court to federal tax crimes.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Jimmy Carter is turning 100 on October 1 after spending more than 19 months in hospice care and losing his beloved wife Rosalynn last year.

The former president’s grandson Jason Carter shared a health update this week, noting he is physically diminished but still mentally and emotionally present.

It came during a celebration of his grandfather on September 17 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta titled Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Song.

The birthday celebration included performances and celebrity guest appearances from Renée Zellweger, Dale Murphy and Killer Mike and virtual remarks from former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

Jason Carter said on Tuesday. of his grandfather:

He’s doing okay. I mean he’s been in hospice for over 19 months now and he has really physically diminished and can’t do much on his own, but he is emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving.

Donald Trump now claims that Vice President Kamala Harris is spying on his campaign and demands she resign in the wake of these allegations.

It comes after Iranian hackers stole sensitive information from Trump’s campaign and offered it up to President Joe Biden.

Microsoft revealed in August that hackers tied to the Iranian government have for months been trying to influence the presidential election.

And on Wednesday, the FBI claimed the cyber-terrorists sent unsolicited emails containing stolen information from the Trump campaign to people connected to the Democratic president in an effort to interfere.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, is now questioning why the Biden or Harris campaign did not turn over this information or report it to authorities.

‘What did they do with Iran’s espionage?’ he questioned on X. ‘Did they contact law enforcement?’

‘Is the Biden-Harris Administration colluding with Iran?’

Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., announced on the House floor Thursday that she is 20-weeks pregnant and demanded rules changes for pregnant lawmakers.

Since the establishment of Congress in 1789, there have been 12,500 members to have served in this body…just 12 have given birth during their term.

Petterson is a strong supporter of abortion rights and also access to IVF fertility treatments.

She recently wrote on X: ‘IVF has helped so many people in the US achieve their dreams of having a baby, including some of my closest friends.’

The lawmaker has a young son Davis who was born in 2020.

She was the first Colorado state senator to give birth while in office at the time.

Biden administration Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is playing the role of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance in debate preparations with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, according to a new report.

Ahead of the October 1 faceoff between Kamala Harris’ veep nominee Walz and Donald Trump pick Vance, Buttigieg – a skilled, calm communicator who regularly gets put on conservative Fox News by the administration – has been tapped to stand in as the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author, the New York Times reported.

He did so for Kamala Harris in 2020, acting as then-Vice President Mike Pence in her mock debate sessions.

Now, the Transportation Secretary, a former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is being cast as yet another fellow midwesterner in Ohio’s Vance.

Walz’s debate prep is being run by campaign advisers Rob Friedlander and Zayn Siddique, the Times reported.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Sen. J.D. Vance has completed seven times more interviews than Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz combined.

Harris has been the Democratic candidate for 59 days and Walz joined her campaign 44 days ago.

Since Harris entered the race when President Joe Biden dropped out, they have done a combined seven interviews – Harris completed three and Walz four, according to an analysis from Axios.

But in the same 59 days, Donald Trump’s running mate has participated in more than 70 interviews and press conferences with TV and print reporters.

Meanwhile, Trump has also done seven local TV interviews, two national TV interviews, three press conferences and one national print interview.

Axios notes that their roundup does not include any interviews with partisan commentators or news outlets.

Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, R-NY., is taking government funding into his own hands after the House failed to pass a short-gap bill.

He said on the Senate floor Thursday morning:

Later today, I’ll file cloture on legislative vehicle that will enable us to prevent a Trump shutdown in the event that Speaker Johnson does not work with us in a bipartisan, bicameral manner.

Schumer went on to say the Senate will ‘step in’ to avoid a government shutdown in just 12 days.

The deadline to get a bill across the finish line is on September 30.

Speaker Mike Johnson‘s short-gap funding bill stunningly failed on the House floor on Wednesday after GOP chaos.

The speaker paired short-gap funding through March 2025 with the SAVE Act – a bill that would crack down on noncitizen voting in the upcoming election by requiring proof of citizenship.

But nearly all Democrats voted against it and a handful of GOP hardliners crossed party lines to tank the measure, called a Continuing Resolution (CR), they said isn’t fiscally conservative enough.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

New polls this week reveal that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are neck-and-neck in Pennsylvania.

This battleground is one of the seven swing states that will determine who wins in November.

And a separate poll from The Washington Post has Harris ahead by a statistically insignificant single percentage point – 48 percent to Trump’s 47 percent.

The Post poll shows that twice as many voters in the Keystone State feel like Harris won the debate over the former president, but this did nothing to boost her standing in the 2024 race.

A House Foreign Affairs Committee majority spokesperson said that Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is giving Secretary of Sate Antony Blinken another week to show up for testimony on the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Blinken was legally compelled to appear for a public hearing on September 19, pursuant to a September 3 subpoena.

The spokesperson told DailyMail.com:

In an additional effort to accommodate the secretary’s travel schedule, [Chairman McCaul] issued a superseding subpoena for his appearance on September 24th, when the secretary is back from the Middle East.

He hopes Secretary Blinken complies with the superseding subpoena and shows up to provide answers for his role in the withdrawal. Otherwise, he will move forward with marking up the resolution holding him in contempt of Congress.

Former President Donald Trump is trailing Vice President Kamala Harris in two crucial battleground states, while a third state remains a toss-up.

Trump won all three so-called ‘blue wall’ states over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, delivering him an Electoral College victory.

In 2020, President Joe Biden flipped the three states back to the Democratic column.

Harris now has a six-point lead in Pennsylvania – 51 percent to 45 percent – with Green Party hopeful Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver garnering 1 percent each.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

While twice as many Pennsylvania debate-watchers say that Kamala Harris won against Donald Trump, the two remain in a split race in the battleground swing state.

One week after the candidate’s first showdown, Harris remains ahead of Trump by just 1 percentage point among registered and likely voters – 48 percent to 47 percent, according to a new Washington Post poll.

The statistically insignificant gap shows that these swing state voters are not swayed by Harris’ debate performance.

It underscores that most voters have already made up their minds and there is little the 2024 candidates can do before November to convince them otherwise.

More than 8 in 10 registered voters in the Keystone State say they watched at least some of the debate between Trump and Harris on September 10.

Of those who tuned in, 54 percent said Harris won, 27 percent said Trump won and 17 percent said neither was victorious.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Despite Kamala Harris’ commanding debate performance against Donald Trump earlier this month, polls have not reflected the vice president receiving any bump since then.

The deadlock between Trump and Harris remains pretty consistent nationally both before and after their debate on September 10.

Harris has kept her statistically insignificant advantage over Trump since the first polls of her versus the former president came out in early August.

In Pennsylvania, which is one of the most important battleground states to win the presidency in November, Harris edges over Trump by 4 percent – 50 percent to 46 percent.

Former President Donald Trump said Wedesday that when he left the stage last week he thought he had the ‘best debate’ and didn’t challenge the moderators because he ‘wanted to be elegant.’

Trump recapped his showdown last Tuesday against Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News‘ late night show Gutfeld.

While most polls showed that viewers believed Harris had definitively won last week’s debate in Philadelphia, Trump admitted he came away from it with a different impression.

‘And I walked off of that stage and I thought I had the best debate. And I was very unfairly treated by the anchor. I’m not fans of those guys anymore. And his hair was better five years ago,’ Trump said of ABC News’ David Muir. ‘That happens. That happens with the clock.’

Trump noted how he believed he had been considered the debate GOAT – greatest of all time – up until that point and complained that Muir and his co-moderator Linsey Davis fact-checked him ‘nine times or 11 times’ and never corrected Harris.

Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is planning to visit the city at the center off false migrants-eating pet claims within the next two weeks, as he tries to keep immigration at the heart of the election battle.

His supporters roared as he cracked an off-color joke about visiting Springfield, Ohio, during a rally on Long Island.

‘You may never see me again,’ he said to the delight of thousands of people packed into the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, who chanted ‘Save the cats.’

‘But that’s OK, you gotta do what you gotta do.’

Unfounded claims about Haitian migrants in the city eating cats and other pets have circulated in the dark recesses of the internet for weeks.

But they blew up last week when Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, spread a baseless rumor that migrants were preying on cats.