Presidential polls 2024 updates: Harris leads Trump by one point while betting odds have the Republican as favorite

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

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.

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.

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.