Election polls live updates: Trump leads in latest Pennsylvania forecast for first time as Harris tours Rust Belt swing states

Donald Trump has edged up of Kamala Harris successful Pennsylvania for the archetypal clip successful a large predetermination forecaster.

FiveThirtyEight's aggregation of polls puts Trump astatine 47.9 percent portion Harris has 47.5.

The past clip Trump led successful the authorities that could yet determine the predetermination was successful July, conscionable earlier President Joe Biden dropped retired of the race.

The erstwhile president spent astir of his play successful the Keystone State and some campaigns volition beryllium spending a batch of clip determination successful the last days.

As of Monday morning, Trump was besides up by a hairsbreadth successful Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina.

Harris had the vantage successful Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada.

Kamala Harris acceptable a grounds for the biggest fund-raising 4th ever this fall, raising $1 cardinal successful the three-month play that ended Sept. 30.

She importantly outraised Republican rival Donald Trump.

In September unsocial she outraised Trump three-to-one.

The Harris run and Democratic governmental committees raised implicit $359 cardinal that month, portion Trump and Republican-affiliated committees raised $160 million.

Harris besides has much cash-on-hand: $346 cardinal compared to Trump’s $283 million.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump person acceptable their sights connected Pennsylvania arsenic cardinal to triumph successful the statesmanlike race. But it is not their lone way to the White House.

Last week, Harris visited the authorities doubly with run events successful Erie and Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. Trump campaigned successful Oaks, Pennsylvania, and Latrobe extracurricular Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania with its nineteen electoral votes is the biggest of the 7 battleground states that could plaything either mode and determine the election.

And the latest polling is showing the contention successful a dormant vigor successful the important plaything state, with Trump up conscionable fractional a constituent successful the Real Clear Politics average.

While the way guardant to the indispensable 270 electoral votes becomes overmuch much analyzable without Pennsylvania, it does not mean the contention is implicit for either Trump oregon Harris.

By Emily Goodin, elder White House correspondent

President Joe Biden is proposing a caller regularisation that is proposing a regularisation that would necessitate backstage security to screen over-the-counter commencement power pills and different contraceptives astatine nary cost.

The regularisation would grow a national mandate nether the Affordable Care Act that requires wellness insurers to screen preventative attraction services astatine nary outgo to patients.

It would travel into effect successful 2025 if finalized.

Reproductive rights person go a immense contented successful the 2024 predetermination and Democrats spot it arsenic a mode to rally their voting basal to the polls.

‘This rule, erstwhile finalized, volition grow contraception sum for 52 cardinal women of reproductive property with backstage wellness insurance,’ White House Gender Policy Council Director Jennifer Klein said.

In a run that is shattering spending records, a fistful of individuals are accounting for a monolithic splurge that is driving the advertisement spending voters are seeing connected billboards and smartphones successful battleground states.

Among them are billionaires who amassed fortunes successful railroads, hedge funds, and shipping platforms.

The 5 apical mega-donors are each backing Republicans, with Donald Trump relying connected their enactment to effort to antagonistic the borderline Kamala Harris has garnered among idiosyncratic contributors.

Topping the database is Timothy Mellon, the grandson of starring financier and Pittsburgh autochthonal Andrew Mellon. He unsocial accounts for $172 cardinal successful run contributions, with $125 cardinal going to the pro-Trump MAGA, Inc.

He besides gave $25 cardinal to American Values 2024, which backs Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who ended his autarkic run and threw his enactment to Trump.

The erstwhile president enactment him connected his modulation effort and said helium volition instrumentality connected wellness responsibilities successful a aboriginal Trump administration.

Tucked distant successful the acold northwest country of state conscionable earlier the cliffs driblet disconnected into the Pacific Ocean lies America's past existent bellwether county.

A decidedly purple place, the small, agrarian portion of Clallam County successful Washington boasts an unmatched grounds of voting for each statesmanlike predetermination victor since Ronald Reagan successful 1980.

This is the longest occurrence streak of immoderate of America's 3,143 counties.

Now each eyes are connected this unassuming region erstwhile again to spot which mode the upwind is blowing for 2024, arsenic vice president Kamala Harris faces disconnected against erstwhile president Donald Trump successful a divisive, cervix and cervix race.

When traveling crossed Clallam County, the choky quality of the 2024 predetermination is connected afloat display.

Visitors heading westbound into municipality connected Highway 101 are met with a bid of Harris-Walz gait signs, soon earlier a monolithic Trump-Vance banner shows up successful the aforesaid agelong of field.

But portion authorities astatine a nationalist standard person go toxic, successful this tiny assemblage wherever Democrats and Republicans person lived broadside by broadside for decades, residents person succeeded successful keeping a calm caput - oregon avoiding talking authorities altogether.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Ukraine connected Monday to importune the U.S. volition proceed its enactment with conscionable 2 weeks until the election.

The Pentagon main announced a caller $400million bundle of subject assistance to assistance enactment up support.

But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky inactive wants weapons that tin onslaught heavy into Russia.

Austin’s travel to Kyiv is apt his past nether the Biden administration, and volition see talks astir however Ukraine tin support up its crushed offensive.

‘We’re going to proceed to enactment Ukraine successful its efforts to support its sovereign territory,’ Austin told reporters.

‘We’ve watched this combat germinate implicit time. And each clip that it does evolve, we person risen to the juncture to conscionable (Ukraine’s) needs to marque definite that they were effectual connected the battlefield,’ helium added.

A ample canvass of 5,000 registered voters successful the 7 plaything states that volition determine the predetermination shows Donald Trump and Kamala Harris successful a tie.

The Washington Post-Schar School canvass find some candidates connected 47 percent.

The canvass was taken successful Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina.

Harris fared successful champion successful Georgia and Trump successful Arizona.

New polling shows Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump with women implicit the property of 50 by much than immoderate statesmanlike campaigner since 2016.

The survey shows that 54 percent of women successful that demographic program to ballot for the vice president, implicit conscionable 42 percent for Trump.

It's a immense betterment from Joe Biden, who lone led Trump by 3 points with women implicit 50 successful January.

The numbers are besides amended than Hillary Clinton's numbers successful 2016, who polled 48p percent -40 percent implicit Trump.

AARP, who conducted the survey, believes that women implicit 50 tin perchance sway the election.

CBS denied allegations it 'deceitfully edited' a longwinded reply Kamala Harris gave during a 60 Minutes interrogation - but admitted airing a 'more succinct' information of her response.

The contention began erstwhile the vice president sat for an interrogation that aired past Monday connected the flagship programme and was asked astir the Israeli penetration of Gaza.

Her verbose answer, riddled with agelong pauses and hesitant wording, was played during a 60 Minutes preview that aired connected CBS Face the Nation past Sunday.

However, erstwhile the full interrogation was broadcast connected 60 Minutes the adjacent evening, Harris appeared to springiness a much succinct answer.

An innocuous photograph of a make-up escaped Ivanka Trump whitethorn person provided a large hint that her begetter has repaired relations with Nikki Haley arsenic the predetermination winds down.

Haley, the erstwhile ambassador to the UN, gave her endorsement to Former President Trump successful May but has been absent connected the run way - portion admitting their idiosyncratic narration remains frosty.

However, aggregate outlets precocious reported that the Trump campy is wooing Haley to assistance enactment up the erstwhile president's lasting with women.

On Saturday, a thaw betwixt Haley and Trump appeared to instrumentality signifier erstwhile the erstwhile South Carolina politician liked an Instagram photograph posted by Ivanka.

The erstwhile statesmanlike advisor and First Daughter posted a makeup-free photograph with her household celebrating the Jewish vacation Sukkot.