Presidential polls live updates: Trump and Kamala Harris in a dead heat in the seven battlegrounds

A caller Wall Street Journal canvass of voters successful 7 battleground states revealed that the contention betwixt Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is inactive highly tight.

Harris has a tiny pb successful Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia portion Trump is edging her retired successful Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

But astir of the results are wrong the borderline of error, which is an indicator that the statesmanlike contention is going to travel down to the wire.

Notably, voters successful the survey said that they spot Trump implicit Harris to grip apical issues including securing the confederate borderline and the economy.

JD Vance turned an awkward concern into applause aft idiosyncratic collapsed during an lawsuit with Danica Patrick successful North Carolina.

Donald Trump's moving mate was speaking erstwhile the idiosyncratic shrieked and fell down to gasps from the crowd.

As the Ohio Senator rushed implicit to them, helium decided to marque airy of it, saying: 'Kamala Harris built this level down us.'

The assemblage gave some laughs and a lasting ovation for the Republican VP nominee's gag arsenic Vance cracked a smile.

Vance was participating successful a municipality hallway speech with the erstwhile racecar operator successful Greensboro Thursday night.

Barack Obama's crude gag astatine President Donald Trump during his archetypal solo run lawsuit for Kamala Harris has spectacularly backfired.

Speaking astatine the University of Pittsburgh Thursday night, Obama hinted that helium believed that the 78-year-old Trump wore big diapers.

Obama, 63, recalled that helium couldn't judge however costly diapers were erstwhile helium became a parent. 'Do you deliberation Donald Trump ever changed a diaper?' helium mused.

'His own!' yelled backmost an assemblage member.

'I astir said that, but I decided I should not accidental it,' Obama said with a laugh.

Social media was not amused, with astatine slightest 1 X idiosyncratic making an ironic notation to the president's erstwhile moving mate: 'Obama would cognize astir changing diapers. He does for Joe.'

Barack Obama accused achromatic antheral voters who garbage to enactment Kamala Harris of sexism and demanded they get connected committee with the Democrat nominee.

The erstwhile president was astatine a run tract bureau successful Pittsburgh to convey volunteers, but alternatively gave them a lecture, saying helium wanted to 'speak immoderate truths.'

Obama said helium was responding to reports connected the crushed that determination was little enthusiasm for Harris than determination was for his ain candidacy and that immoderate achromatic men were reasoning of sitting retired the election.

Vice President Kamala Harris was enactment successful the blistery spot by a radical of undecided Hispanic voters successful Nevada connected Thursday wherever she was pressed implicit a bid of cardinal issues from migration to wellness care.

But arsenic the vice president looks to fastener successful enactment from this cardinal voting bloc with conscionable 26 days to beryllium earlier Election Day, she played it safe, sidestepping connected immoderate blistery fastener issues and resorting backmost to talking points she often uses connected the run trail.

The hour-long municipality hallway was tapped astatine the University of Nevada Las Vegas to aerial nationally connected Univision connected Thursday night.

Journalist Enrique Acevedo moderated the programme wherever astatine times helium besides played translator arsenic questions were posed some successful Spanish and English by the voters.

Former President Donald Trump volition besides enactment successful a Univision municipality hallway with undecided Hispanic voters adjacent week aft a taping earlier this week was delayed owed to Hurricane Milton.

Here are the takeaways from the vice president's municipality hall: