2024 presidential election live updates: Trump and Kamala Harris are tied in Pennsylvania, new poll shows

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are tied in Pennsylvania, the battleground state that could decide the election, a new poll shows.

The Keystone State is seen as critical in the path to victory for each candidate, and DailyMail.com’s election model has consistently shown the result there will ultimately determine the race.

Fifty-one percent of voters in the survey said Trump would be better for their financial situation, compared to 48 percent for Harris.

Among independent voters, 50 percent sided with Trump while just 38 percent selected Harris.

Half of the respondents said the economy was the top issue, with 60 percent saying they are worse off than they were five years ago.

Former Mark Meadows chief of staff in the Trump White House Cassidy Hutchinson said she is voting for Kamala Harris and called on other Republicans to publicly take on Trump.

‘I am really, really proud, as a conservative, to have the opportunity to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in this election,’ she told MSNBC.

She said on ‘Morning Joe’ she didn’t know ‘why so many Republicans are cloaking themselves in cowardice.’ She praised former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who is campaigning with Harris today who she said were trying to ‘salvage what’s left of the party, but we need more people to step forward.’

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Speaker Mike Johnson is expected to examine the fallout from Hurricane Helene Thursday.

The Republican speaker will be joined by GOP Reps. Cat Cammack and Neal Dunn during a tour in Steinhatchee, Florida.

Earlier this week Johnson told a group of investors at the NYSE that Congress ‘will have to address’ the historic storm.

The hurricane has caused 180 deaths across the southeast, making it the deadliest hurricane in the U.S. mainland since Hurricane Katrina.

An American father-of-four has been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, US officials have confirmed.

Kamel Ahmad Jawad from Dearborn, Michigan was killed in a strike on Tuesday ‘while trying to save innocent lives’ his daughter Nadine said in an emotional statement, describing how he offered food and shelter to the most vulnerable in his final days.

She added that her father chose to stay near a hospital in Nabatieh to help the elderly, injured and the disabled while taking care of his elderly mother.

Shortly before he died, as Israeli strikes began landing nearby, Kamel told his daughter not to worry as he was ‘doing what he loves the most: helping others live in the land he loved the most’.

‘We are deeply saddened by the death of Kamel Ahmad Jawad and our hearts go out to his family and friends,’ a White House spokesperson said on Wednesday. ‘His death is a tragedy, as are the deaths of many civilians in Lebanon.’

Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump by four points in the battleground state of Wisconsin, even though voters trust the former president more on the key issues.

Yet Trump is leading on voters’ biggest concerns in the race including the border, the economy and the Israel-Hamas war.

On immigration, the Republican nominee leads 49 to 37 percent.

When it comes to the economy, 50 percent of Wisconsin residents trust Trump to handle the economy better than Harris.

Six percent of the respondents are undecided in a state that has often been decided than a few thousand votes, or less than a point.

The survey revealed almost half of people have stopped talking to someone about politics because of the presidential race.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

President Joe Biden heads back to the path of Hurricane Helene Thursday, in another show of solidarity just a day after touring storm damage in North Carolina by air.

Biden was at his Delaware beach house when the full impact of the monster Category 4 hurricane was first coming into view. He expressed concern about steering clear of recovery efforts when first asked when he would visit the wreckage in the storm’s path.

On Thursday, he heads to Tallahasee, where he will take a helicopter tour. Biden will get an ‘operational briefing’ in Perry Florida, where he will hear more about the devastation. The White House said he would ‘tour areas impacted by Hurricane Helene and meet with affected communities.’

Biden also spends time in Georgia, one of a handful of southeastern states that got battered by the storm as it made its way north after making landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast. He’ll tour more storm damage in Ray City, Georgia and give remarks.

For the second day in a row, the events will have the president commiserating with Americans who lost their homes and livelihoods in the storm. There is no mistaking the political significance of several of the battered states. Two of them, North Carolina and Georgia, are tossup contests that could determine control of the White House, and both parties are keeping an eye on Florida.

But as the campaign season heads into overdrive with 33 days to go before Election Day, Democrats in the deep red areas are growing more confident coming out of the woodwork and voicing their support.

It helps that Democrats running for office are making a play in every corner of the state.

The latest Emerson College poll shows Harris and Donald Trump tied 48 percent to 48 percent with voters in the state.

With Pennsylvania perhaps the most important battleground state in the presidential election and polls showing a razor-thin race, Kamala Harris’ campaign and party officials are not leaving anything to chance.

With their effort, supporters on the ground are growing increasingly hopeful the trend of rural areas in the crucial state growing increasingly red will reverse or at least slow.

Kamala Harris has been praised for leading a more moderate campaign to appeal to all Americans, but progressives say they are waiting to radicalize her if she beats Donald Trump.

Harris was ranked as one of the most progressive senators during her brief tenure in the upper chamber of Congress, second only to self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

She has championed the Green New Deal, fought for sweeping abortion rights and vociferously decried the terrors of deportation and building a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

These policies, however, do not go over well in a presidential election, so Harris has been instead focusing on centrist issues like enhancing small business tax breaks, immigration reform and lowering the cost of goods, including that of energy.

Seeing this as a winning strategy, progressives have decided to bide their time and wait until Harris wins the White House before pushing her further left.

Pro-life activists have warned that Melania Trump’s backing of abortion rights could undercut former president Trump’s message on this issue in the lead up to the November election.

The former First Lady, 54, reveals in her upcoming memoir, due out next week, that she supports a woman’s right to choose as a staunch defender of ‘individual liberty’ and ‘personal freedom’ – a position she has held for her ‘entire adult life’.

‘It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,’ she writes in the book.

But pro-life activists were quick to blast Melania for having an opinion that differs from her husband’s.

Kristan Hawkins, president of the Students for Life of America, wrote on Twitter/X: ‘It’s hard to follow the logic of putting out the former First Lady’s book right before the election undercutting President Trump’s message to pro-life voters. What a waste of momentum.’

Kamala Harris will be joined by Liz Cheney, one of Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican critics, on the campaign trail in Wisconsin on Thursday.

The two will appear together in a historic white schoolhouse in Ripon, where a series of meetings held in 1854 to oppose slavery’s expansion led to the birth of the Republican Party.

The move sees Harris aiming to reach out to moderate voters and rattle the former president.

Cheney was the top Republican on the House committee that investigated Trump’s role in the events of January 6, 2021.

It earned her Trump’s disdain and effectively exiled her from her own party.

Cheney lost her Wyoming seat to a Trump-endorsed candidate two years ago and she endorsed Harris, the Democratic nominee, last month.

Vice President Kamala Harris is slightly trailing former President Donald Trump with Arab Americans, according to polling released Wednesday from the Arab American Institute.

The survey found that 42 percent of likely voters preferred Trump, while 41 percent backed Harris. Twelve percent plan to back a third-party candidate.

Normally Democrats have a 2-to-1 advantage with this group.

But polling found that ‘it’s Trump who is the beneficiary of the community’s anger and despair over the Biden Administration’s failure to prevent the unfolding genocide in Gaza,’ a release said.

The poll found that by a small percentage – 46 percent to 43 percent – Arab Americans also preferred that Republicans have control of Congress.