US election: 8 days left – What polls say, what Harris and Trump are up to

With 8 days to spell to the election, erstwhile President Donald Trump hosted a rally astatine Madison Square Garden successful his hometown of New York portion Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned successful the cardinal swing state of Pennsylvania.

At the Madison Square Garden Rally connected Sunday, Trump repeatedly rammed location his plans to halt undocumented migration and deport migrants helium described arsenic “vicious and bloodthirsty criminals”.

Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris said successful Philadelphia that cipher should beryllium connected the sidelines. “We are focused connected the aboriginal and the needs of the American people,” she said.

By midday connected Sunday (16:00 GMT), much than 41 cardinal Americans had already voted successful aboriginal in-person voting oregon via mail-in ballots, according to a tally by the Election Lab astatine the University of Florida. In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic – much than 100 cardinal voters had formed their ballots earlier Election Day.

What are the latest updates from the polls?

Harris and Trump stay neck-and-neck successful this precise choky race.

A CBS News/YouGov canvass released connected Sunday showed that Harris is starring Trump nationally, with 50 percent compared to Trump’s 49 percent, but the effect remains taxable to the survey’s borderline of error.

The canvass besides showed that determination is simply a large sex disagreement successful the race, with much men preferring Trump and much women preferring Harris. Trump, the canvass shows, leads antheral voters by 54 percent to 45 percent, portion Harris leads women voters by 55 percent to 43 percent.

Men are much apt to presumption Trump arsenic a beardown person (64 percent to 50 percent), portion women are much apt to accidental Harris has the close “mental and cognitive health” to beryllium president, according to the poll.

In a separate analysis from FiveThirtyEight’s regular predetermination canvass tracker, Harris was somewhat up successful the nationalist polls arsenic of Sunday, starring Trump by 1.4 percent points. However, the semipermanent inclination shows that the contention is getting closer, with the spread narrowing from 1.7 points past week.

Seven US plaything states are apt to find the result of the election.

According to FiveThirtyEight’s regular canvass tracker, Harris retains a constrictive pb successful Michigan and Wisconsin. Meanwhile, Trump holds a flimsy borderline implicit Harris successful Pennsylvania and Nevada and enjoys a much important pb successful North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia.

In each 7 states, however, the candidates are wrong 2 points of each other, good wrong the polls’ margins of error, leaving each authorities a tossup conscionable days earlier the last vote.

What was Kamala Harris up to connected Sunday?

On Sunday, the Democratic campaigner spoke astatine Philadelphia’s Church of Christian Compassion, wherever she stressed the stakes of the election, describing it arsenic the “most consequential predetermination of our lifetime”.

“In conscionable 9 days, we person the powerfulness to determine the destiny of our federation for generations to come,” said Harris, successful comments carried by CBS Philadelphia.

“Here, successful Pennsylvania, close present each of america has an accidental to marque a difference,” she said. “The large happening astir surviving successful a ideology is we, the people, person the prime to reply that question. So fto america reply not conscionable with our words, but with our works.”

Harris besides addressed young voters, calling them “rightly impatient for change”.

To Gen Z:

You who person lone known the clime situation are leaders successful what we request to bash to support our planet.
You who grew up with progressive shooter drills cognize what we person to bash for information successful our schools.
You who whitethorn person less rights than your mothers and grandmothers are…

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 27, 2024

On Sunday, Harris was asked by reporters whether she was acrophobic astir the recent conversations betwixt Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The 2 shared a adjacent narration during Trump’s presidency.

Asked if these talks could undermine the existent US government’s objectives, she responded, “No.”

“I bash judge that it is critically important that we arsenic the United States of America beryllium an progressive subordinate successful encouraging one, that this warfare ends, that we get the hostages retired but besides that determination is simply a existent committedness among nations to a two-state solution and the ‘day after’ [in Gaza],” Harris told reporters.

A caller Arab News/YouGov poll recovered that Arab-American enactment for Trump (45 percent) somewhat surpassed that for Harris (43 percent), with much respondents besides seeing Trump arsenic much apt to resoluteness the Israel-Palestine conflict.

What was Donald Trump up to connected Sunday?

The Republican campaigner rallied his Make America Great Again (MAGA) basal astatine an lawsuit successful New York City, promising to ace down connected migration and taking purpose astatine Harris.

“November 5 volition beryllium the astir important day successful the past of our state and, together, we volition marque America almighty again,” said the erstwhile president, who painted a representation of a state plagued by economical and societal crises.

Trump besides blamed Harris – whom helium described arsenic a “radical near Marxist” who is unintelligent and “unfit” to service arsenic president – for the problems the state faces. “You’ve destroyed our country,” helium said, referring to the US vice president.

Trump speaks during a rally astatine Madison Square Garden, successful New York [Andrew Kelly/Reuters]

Separately, a comedian’s arguable show ignited backlash aft helium referred to Puerto Rico arsenic a “floating land of garbage”.

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe asked, “where are my arrogant Latinos astatine tonight?”, earlier diving into a drawstring of jokes astir migration and the Texas-Mexico border. “You guys spot what I mean? It’s wide open; there’s truthful galore of them,” helium added.

Hinchcliffe’s show took a drastic crook erstwhile helium likened Puerto Rico, a US territory, to water waste.

“There’s a batch going on, like, I don’t cognize if you cognize this but there’s virtually a floating land of garbage successful the mediate of the water close now. Yeah. I deliberation it’s called Puerto Rico,” Hinchcliffe said.

His gag was instantly criticised by Harris’s run arsenic it competes with Trump to triumph implicit Puerto Rican communities successful Pennsylvania and different plaything states. Puerto Rican euphony superstar Bad Bunny backed Harris soon aft Hinchcliffe’s comments.

The usually pugnacious Trump run took the uncommon measurement of distancing itself from Hinchcliffe. “This gag does not bespeak the views of President Trump oregon the campaign,” elder advisor Danielle Alvarez said successful a statement.

Trump speaks during a rally astatine Madison Square Garden [EPA]

What’s adjacent for the Harris and Trump campaigns?

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz – associated rally successful Michigan

Harris and vice statesmanlike nominee Tim Walz are hosting a run rally and performance successful Ann Arbor, a assemblage municipality successful Michigan. The lawsuit volition diagnostic a show by singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers.

In Michigan, Harris and Trump are battling to woo voters, including an Arab American and Muslim colonisation profoundly acrophobic astir Israel’s warfare connected Gaza.

Trump afloat backs Israel but has not said however helium would extremity the conflict. Even so, helium appears to beryllium gaining enactment from immoderate Muslim Americans who are unhappy with President Joe Biden and Harris’s enactment of Israel passim the warfare truthful far.

“It’s harmless to accidental it’s a must-win authorities for Kamala Harris, and yet Arab Americans – who person been supporting Democrats overmuch much than supporting Republicans since 2004 and Iraq and Abu Ghraib – person truly been disaffected by the Biden medication and by Kamala Harris’s deficiency of distancing herself from the Biden medication connected the contented of Gaza [and] present Lebanon,” John Zogby, a pollster and laminitis of John Zogby Strategies, told Al Jazeera.

Trump rally successful Georgia

Trump volition code Atlanta connected Monday.

He volition statesman with a code astatine the National Faith Summit successful Powder Springs and reason with a rally astatine Georgia Tech.

According to section media reports, Trump volition archetypal code much than 1,000 pastors and religion leaders earlier heading to McCamish Pavilion for his scheduled run rally.

Trump is expected to emphasise economical issues and beforehand aboriginal voting.

Georgia, with 16 Electoral College votes, is different cardinal battleground authorities – Trump won it successful 2016 but narrowly mislaid the authorities to President  Biden successful 2020.