US election: 5 days left – What polls say, what Harris and Trump are up to

With little than 1 week earlier election day, Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump hosted rival events successful the plaything states of Wisconsin and North Carolina wherever some are warring for undecided voters.

Harris called connected Americans to “stop pointing fingers astatine each other” arsenic she attempted to determination past President Joe Biden’s comments successful which helium appeared to telephone Donald Trump’s supporters “garbage”.

Meanwhile, Trump hopped into the rider spot of a achromatic garbage motortruck bearing his sanction to gully attraction to Biden’s comments.

So acold much than 50 cardinal Americans person already voted, the University of Florida’s Election Lab says. This includes astir 29.3 cardinal in-person votes and astir 26 cardinal mail-in ballots.

What are the latest updates from the polls?

The latest polls from The Economist/YouGov and TIPP Insights, released connected Wednesday, bespeak that Harris has a flimsy pb of conscionable 1 percent point, with 44 percent of voters supporting her compared with 43 percent for Trump.

In a abstracted canvass by The Washington Post and George Mason University, besides released connected Wednesday, voters expressed concerns astir Trump’s imaginable absorption if helium loses, recalling the 2020 predetermination erstwhile his nonaccomplishment triggered the January 6 Capitol riots.

Of much than 5,000 registered voters successful cardinal battleground states, 57 percent said they were “very” oregon “somewhat” disquieted that Trump’s supporters mightiness go convulsive if helium loses. In contrast, lone 31 percent believed that Harris’s supporters would respond successful a akin manner.

Additionally, according to FiveThirtyEight’s National canvass tracker, arsenic of Wednesday, Harris continues to pb nationally by astir 1.4 points. However, this pb is wrong the borderline of error, indicating that the contention remains highly competitive.

In plaything states – captious states which could find the predetermination result – the contention is adjacent tighter. The cardinal battleground states see Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada.

According to FiveThirtyEight’s regular canvass tracker, Harris’s constrictive pb successful Michigan has grown from a 0.2-point borderline to 1 point. She besides has a flimsy borderline successful Nevada. In Wisconsin, her pb has accrued to 0.8 points.

On the different hand, Donald Trump holds a flimsy vantage successful Pennsylvania, somewhat expanding from 0.2 points to 0.4 points. His pb successful North Carolina has decreased from 1.3 points to 1.1 points.

Trump has gained crushed successful Arizona, wherever helium presently leads Harris by 2.2 points, and successful Georgia, wherever helium has a 1.8-point advantage.

In six of the 7 plaything states, the candidates are wrong 2 points of each other, which falls wrong the polls’ margins of error, making each authorities a toss-up conscionable days earlier the election. Although Trump leads Arizona by 2.1 points, this quality is inactive precise adjacent to the borderline of mistake of 3 percent points.

What was Kamala Harris up to connected Wednesday?

Harris held rallies successful Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and North Carolina.

She stressed unity and communal ground. “I americium not looking to people governmental points,” the vice president said. “I americium looking to marque progress.”

Separately, the White House rushed to explicate President Biden’s “garbage” gaffe.

The contention began connected Tuesday erstwhile Biden joined a run telephone hosted by the Hispanic advocacy radical Voto Latino. During the call, Biden criticised a comedian’s remark astatine Sunday’s Madison Square Garden rally, successful which Tony Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico arsenic a “floating land of garbage”.

“The lone garbage I spot floating retired determination is his supporters. His demonisation of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American,” Biden said. “It’s wholly contrary to everything we’ve done and been.”

Before boarding Air Force Two for her formation to Raleigh, Harris told reporters that she disagreed with “any disapproval of radical based connected their voting choices”.

“I volition correspond each Americans, including those who don’t ballot for me,” she added.

With Election Day little than 1 week away, polls amusement the statesmanlike contention betwixt Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump is simply a toss-up [EPA]

While Harris was rallying connected Wednesday, she was confronted by pro-Palestinian protesters astatine each 3 of her events.

“We each privation the warfare successful Gaza to extremity and to get the hostages out, and I volition bash everything successful my powerfulness to marque it heard and known,” Harris said successful Wisconsin. “And everyone has a close to beryllium heard, but close now, I americium speaking.”

Harris’s supporters erupted astatine her comment, a notation to what she told then-Vice President Mike Pence during their statement successful 2020. The absorption mostly drowned retired the protesters.

Harris speaks during a run rally [Eloisa Lopez/Reuters]

What was Donald Trump up to connected Wednesday?

Trump walked down the steps of the Boeing 757 helium was travelling connected and climbed into the rider spot of a achromatic garbage motortruck that besides carried his name.

“How bash you similar my garbage truck?” Trump said, wearing an orangish and yellowish information vest implicit his achromatic formal garment and reddish tie. “This is successful honour of Kamala and Joe Biden.”

Trump reacts arsenic helium sits successful a garbage motortruck [Brendan McDermid/Reuters]

Trump and different Republicans faced a backlash aft Tony Hinchcliffe’s notation to Puerto Rico arsenic a “floating land of garbage”.

The erstwhile president has distanced himself from the comedian but stopped abbreviated of denouncing his comment. He besides said helium did not request to apologise to Puerto Ricans.

“I don’t cognize thing astir the comedian,” Trump said. “I don’t cognize who helium is. I’ve ne'er seen him. I heard helium made a statement, but it was a connection that helium made. He’s a comedian, what tin I archer you? I cognize thing astir him.” A spokesperson for Trump said the gag doesn’t bespeak his views, but the erstwhile president has not addressed it himself.

“I emotion Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rico loves me,” Trump said from the garbage truck.

He ended the little quality by telling reporters: “I anticipation you enjoyed this garbage truck. Thank you precise much.”

“[The motortruck scene] has go a alternatively viral infinitesimal with Trump’s supporters,” Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro reported.

However “voters here, they accidental they’re simply disgusted by the rhetoric that this run has devolved into … and they’re making their votes count”, she added.

“In places similar present successful Milwaukee, so Harris has the advantage. But successful agrarian areas of the state, that’s wherever Trump volition apt find his supporters.”

Trump delivers remarks astatine a rally successful Green Bay, Wisconsin [Brendan McDermid/Reuters]

What’s adjacent for the Harris and Trump campaigns?

Harris volition marque stops successful 2 plaything states

The Democrat is heading to the occidental US tomorrow, wherever she volition marque run stops successful 2 plaything states. Harris volition clasp events successful Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada, and Phoenix, Arizona.

Mexican bands Mana and Los Tigres del Norte volition beryllium performing astatine Harris’s rallies successful Las Vegas and Phoenix, respectively, ostensibly to boost Latino support.

Singer Jennifer Lopez volition besides reportedly execute astatine Harris’s Las Vegas rally. On Sunday, the creator shared Harris’s program connected her Instagram communicative to physique Puerto Rico’s system and its vigor grid amid a backlash implicit Hinchliffe’s comments.

In the last days of her campaign, Harris has relied importantly connected celebrities and performers, headlining events alongside notable figures similar Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce and Maggie Rogers. The Thursday lawsuit takes spot conscionable days earlier aboriginal voting successful Nevada concludes connected November 1.

According to a study by the mag Rolling Stone, Mexican euphony has been instrumental successful mobilising Latino voters successful plaything states. On Thursday, La Original Banda El Limon released a corrido dedicated to Harris, titled “Señora Presidenta”.

Trump heads to Nevada and New Mexico

Trump volition beryllium successful Albuquerque, New Mexico; Henderson, Nevada; and Glendale, Arizona wherever helium volition talk with Tucker Carlson astatine the Desert Island Arena.

Nevada and Arizona are 2 of the 7 battleground states that volition determine this election.

A caller survey released by CNN connected Tuesday reveals that voters successful these 2 important Southwest battlegrounds are undecided astir who is the amended choice.

Both states person aboriginal voting, with the canvass indicating that 55 percent of apt voters successful Arizona and 42 percent successful Nevada study person already formed their ballots. In some states, much registered Republicans person voted truthful acold than registered Democrats.