US election: 13 days left — What polls say, what Harris and Trump are up to

Voters successful Hawaii, Missouri, Utah, and Wisconsin started casting their ballots connected Tuesday, joining respective different states that began aboriginal voting successful caller weeks.

Polls suggest Democratic campaigner Kamala Harris and Republican contender Donald Trump are neck-and-neck nationwide and successful battleground states.

On Tuesday, Harris gave 2 interviews – 1 to NBC News and different with Telemundo. Meanwhile, Trump held a rally successful North Carolina aft hosting a roundtable treatment with Latino leaders.

Here’s a look astatine what the polls say, the cardinal highlights from campaigns implicit the erstwhile day, and what to expect next.

What are the latest updates from the polls?

According to polls, determination is simply a adjacent contention betwixt some candidates. On Tuesday, a Reuters/Ipsos canvass suggested that Harris had a flimsy pb implicit Trump, with 46 percent to 43 percent.

Harris’s pb successful the six-day canvass that closed connected Monday was akin to her 45 percent to 42 percent vantage implicit Trump successful a Reuters/Ipsos canvass from the erstwhile week.

The caller canvass besides suggested that voters stock a antagonistic outlook connected the system and immigration, mostly favouring Trump’s attack to these issues. About 60 percent believed the system was moving successful the incorrect direction.

According to FiveThirtyEight’s regular predetermination canvass tracker, arsenic of October 22, Harris was starring successful the nationalist polls and had a 1.9 percentage-point pb implicit Trump.

National surveys supply invaluable insights into elector sentiment, but the result of the Electoral College – determined by state-by-state results – yet decides the winner, with 7 battleground states expected to beryllium critical.

The quality betwixt Harris and Trump successful each of the 7 battleground states — Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada — is wrong the borderline of mistake of polls. That means the 2 candidates are efficaciously tied crossed these states, with Trump marginally up successful the canvass averages for Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona, and Harris with a wafer-thin pb successful Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada.

If these marginal differences betwixt their polling numbers hold, Trump is apt to triumph the presidency. But if polls undercounted enactment for Harris successful adjacent 1 of the battleground states Trump leads in, the result could beryllium a triumph for the incumbent vice president.

What was Kamala Harris up to connected Tuesday?

In an interrogation with NBC successful Washington, DC, Harris said her squad is prepared to situation immoderate aboriginal triumph assertion made by Trump, emphasising that her precedence is defeating him.

She said the Democrats “have the resources and expertise” to antagonistic immoderate attempts by Trump to undermine the election.

“This is simply a person, Donald Trump, who tried to undo a escaped and just election, who inactive denies the volition of the people, who incited a convulsive mob to onslaught the United States Capitol and immoderate 140 instrumentality enforcement officers were attacked, immoderate were killed. This is simply a precise superior matter,” she added.

She was besides interviewed by Telemundo, a Spanish-language tv web successful the US. During the interview, she said, according to a study by The Associated Press quality agency, that she volition enactment to physique an system that “supports the moving class”. She besides emphasised her absorption connected solutions that “could bring much capital” to the community. This interrogation is acceptable to aerial connected Wednesday astatine 23:00 GMT.

Tim Walz, Harris’s moving mate, took purpose astatine Trump portion addressing a assemblage successful Madison, Wisconsin, earlier erstwhile President Barack Obama’s appearance. Walz said Trump had nary stamina and was meandering successful his speeches.

Earlier connected Tuesday, Trump criticised Harris for not making immoderate run appearances that day.

During his code successful Madison, Wisconsin, Obama said helium had already voted successful Chicago. Obama told the crowd: “If you haven’t voted yet, I won’t beryllium offended if you conscionable locomotion retired close present [to spell vote].”

He besides took potshots astatine Trump. “You’d beryllium disquieted if grandpa was acting like” Trump, Obama said.

“This is coming from idiosyncratic who wants unchecked power,” Obama said. “So, Wisconsin, we bash not request to spot what an older, loonier Donald Trump looks similar with nary guardrails. America is acceptable to crook the page.”

Former US President Barack Obama speaks astatine a rally [Go Nakamura/Reuters]

What was Donald Trump up to?

Trump held a roundtable with Latino leaders successful Florida. In his opening remarks, salient Florida Republicans, including Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and US Senator Rick Scott, highlighted Trump’s grounds of supporting the Hispanic assemblage during his erstwhile term.

According to Al Jazeera’s John Holman, reporting from Miami, Harris has beardown enactment among Latino voters, portion Trump is moving to unafraid cardinal endorsements from the community, particularly successful politically captious states.

“When we look astatine the battleground states, according to Voto Latino, Harris has the enactment of 63 percent of Latino voters, portion Trump has little than fractional of that astatine 31 percent,” Holman said.

“What helium volition beryllium trying to bash is not to supersede the enactment that Harris has, but to prise capable Latino voters distant from her, particularly successful states similar Nevada and Arizona … to effort to get a way to victory, and determination are signs particularly among antheral Latino voters that helium mightiness beryllium capable to bash that,” helium added.

In his appearance, helium criticised Harris saying, “She’s sleeping close present … This is not what you want.”

Trump’s remarks travel Harris’s effort to represent him arsenic “exhausted” aft helium withdrew from respective interviews.

The erstwhile president besides took the accidental to criticise the Biden medication for the leak of classified documents purportedly outlining Israel’s plans for an onslaught connected Iran. He called it a “bad thing”.

“Can you ideate idiosyncratic doing that? That’s the enemy. I conjecture that possibly [it] is the force from within,” helium said.

Trump besides painted a grim representation of what helium sees arsenic the stakes successful the upcoming predetermination successful 2 weeks.

“If we suffer this election, we whitethorn not person a state immoderate more,” Trump said.

Towards the extremity of the day, Trump besides held a rally successful North Carolina, wherever helium criticised the state’s system and attacked Harris.

THANK YOU, NORTH CAROLINA! This predetermination is simply a prime betwixt whether we volition person 4 much years of incompetence, failure, and disaster—or whether we volition statesman the FOUR GREATEST YEARS successful the HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY! pic.twitter.com/JJhJsJcOHk

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2024

What’s adjacent for the Harris and Trump campaigns?

Harris to enactment successful a CNN municipality hall

On Wednesday, CNN volition big a unrecorded municipality hallway with Harris extracurricular of Philadelphia with a unrecorded assemblage of undecided voters. Walz is acceptable to instrumentality to the metropolis connected Friday, marking his archetypal sojourn backmost to Philadelphia since being announced arsenic Harris’s moving mate implicit the summer.

Separately connected Thursday, iconic instrumentalist Bruce Springsteen volition look with Harris and Obama astatine a rally successful Atlanta, Georgia, according to sources.

Trump to run successful battleground Georgia

Trump is expected to run successful Georgia too. In the authorities – with 16 Electoral College votes – Trump is starring Harris by 1.5 percent points, according to FiveThirtyEight’s regular predetermination canvass tracker.

Both campaigns are focused connected securing Georgia. The authorities narrowly went to Joe Biden successful 2020, contributing to his triumph successful the past statesmanlike election. Trump won Georgia successful 2016 connected his mode to the presidency.

Popular podcaster Joe Rogan volition interrogation Trump connected Friday.

Trump and Rogan stock a analyzable history. Although they shook hands and chatted concisely astatine a UFC fight, Trump aboriginal criticised Rogan aft helium remarked that then-candidate Robert Kennedy Jr was the lone 1 moving who made consciousness to him. Rogan is simply a UFC commentator.

“It volition beryllium absorbing to spot however loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the adjacent clip helium enters the UFC Ring??? MAGA2024,” Trump wrote connected his societal media tract successful August.