US election: 9 days left – What polls say, what Harris and Trump are up to

With 9 days near to spell until Election Day successful the United States, the 2 apical contenders for the White House – Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump – proceed to scramble for votes successful battleground states arsenic polls suggest a choky race.

On Saturday, Trump made a bold play for Arab-American and Muslim voters successful Michigan, a plaything authorities with astir 400,000 voters of Arab background.

Michigan voted for Biden successful 2020, but choler implicit Israel’s genocide successful Gaza and the warfare connected Lebanon could impact the Democratic turnout for Harris.

Michigan is 1 of the 7 competitory US states apt to determine the winner. It is portion of the “Blue Wall” that is considered Democrats’ champion accidental of electing Harris, on with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Harris besides campaigned successful Michigan connected Saturday, informing that Trump would workout “unchecked and utmost power” if helium returns to the White House.

What are the latest updates from the polls?

A canvass released by the Emerson College Polling connected Saturday has Harris and Trump tied astatine 49 percent each.

The survey, conducted connected October 23-24, suggested a tighter race than a week earlier, which showed Harris starring Trump 49 percent to 48 percent. It is besides the archetypal clip since August successful Emerson’s play polling that Harris is not successful the lead.

“Male voters are breaking for Trump by 13 points, 55 percent to 42 percent, a larger borderline than successful 2020, portion women interruption for Harris by 10 points, 54 percent to 44 percent, underperforming Biden’s enactment successful 2020,” said Spencer Kimball, enforcement manager of Emerson College Polling.

The latest survey besides recovered that careless of who they volition ballot for, 50 percent of American voters deliberation Trump volition triumph the predetermination portion 49 percent deliberation truthful for Harris.

The polling besides listed the apical issues for voters are the system astatine 45 percent, followed by migration (14 percent), threats to ideology (14 percent), termination entree (7 percent), healthcare (6 percent), and transgression (4 percent).

Meanwhile, the latest FiveThirtyEight’s regular mean showed Harris starring successful the nationalist polls, 47.9 to Trump’s 46.6.

According to the aforesaid polling, Harris’s unfavourable standing edged up to 47.8 percent, portion her favourable standing was astatine 46.4 percent. Trump’s unfavourable standing was astatine 52.1 percent portion his favourable standing was astatine 43.4 percent.

What was Kamala Harris up to connected Saturday?

Harris was successful Michigan, wherever erstwhile First Lady Michelle Obama fired up the assemblage of Democratic supporters by drafting distinctions betwixt Harris and Trump connected idiosyncratic quality and qualifications, saying determination was a treble modular successful however the 2 were being treated.

Obama warned that different word nether Trump would effect successful further rollbacks to termination rights. She said Trump’s committedness to rescind the Affordable Care Act passed during her husband’s presidency would impact the “entirety of women’s health, each of it”.

Michelle Obama speaks astatine a run rally for Harris successful Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 26, 2024 [Jacquelyn Martin/AP]

Harris was respective minutes into an upbeat code erstwhile she was interrupted by a demonstrator who repeatedly yelled, “No much Gaza war.”

After Harris’s supporters shouted down the interruption, she responded, “On the taxable of Gaza, we indispensable extremity that war”, past picked up wherever she near off, asking voters to “turn the leafage connected the fearfulness and the divisiveness”.

What was Donald Trump up to connected Saturday?

Also campaigning successful Michigan, Trump met a radical of Muslim preachers, arguing that helium deserved the enactment of Muslim voters due to the fact that helium would extremity conflicts and bring bid to the Middle East.

Trump afloat backs Israel and has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “do what you person to do” successful dealing with Hamas successful Gaza and Hezbollah successful Lebanon.

Even so, Trump appears to beryllium gaining enactment from immoderate Muslim Americans upset with President Joe Biden’s and Harris’s argumentation successful Gaza, and contempt Trump banning migration from immoderate Muslim-majority countries arsenic president.

Imam Belal Alzuhairi of the Islamic Center of Detroit joined Trump connected signifier successful Novi, saying, “We inquire Muslims to basal with President Trump due to the fact that helium promises peace.”

During the aforesaid appearance, however, Trump besides denigrated Detroit portion trying to entreaty to the suburban votes.

“I deliberation Detroit and immoderate of our areas marque america a processing nation,” helium said, adding that radical privation him to accidental Detroit is “great”, but helium thinks it “needs help”.

What’s adjacent for the Harris and Trump campaigns?

According to her campaign, Harris is spending each of Sunday successful Philadelphia, crisscrossing the metropolis successful a bid of neighbourhood events to crook retired voters. Turnout successful Philadelphia could beryllium the determining origin successful whether Harris tin transportation the critical authorities of Pennsylvania, which carries 19 electoral votes.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, Harris’s full-day circuit volition absorption connected predominantly Black and Latino neighbourhoods of the Democrat-leaning city.

Harris is scheduled to be services connected Sunday greeting and present remarks astatine a Black religion successful West Philadelphia. She volition besides sojourn a barbershop successful West Philadelphia for a speech with young Black men and assemblage leaders.

Meanwhile, Trump volition instrumentality the signifier astatine 1 of the country’s astir iconic venues, hosting a hometown rally astatine New York City’s Madison Square Garden to present his campaign’s closing connection against Harris.

Trump was calved and raised successful Queens successful New York City. He besides built his real property career successful the city.

While immoderate Democrats and TV pundits person questioned Trump’s determination to clasp what they disregard arsenic vanity events, the rally successful the Democrat-leaning New York guarantees Trump what helium astir craves: the spotlight, wall-to-wall sum and a nationalist audience.

“It’s the New York, but it’s also, you know, it’s MSG, it’s Madison Square Garden,” Trump said during a caller vigor interview. “Guys similar you and I, that means a lot, those words. Madison Square Garden, right? Don’t you deliberation so? … It’s a precise large stop.”

Trump volition beryllium joined astatine the rally by supporters including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has spent tens of millions of dollars to boost his campaign.