Election polls live updates: Trump surges to early voting lead in battleground state

Republicans have an early lead over Democrats in early voting in the battleground state of Nevada.

Around 700,000 people – half the state’s expected voters – have already cast their ballots.

Registered Republicans have an advantage of 40,000, or 5,7 percent, over registered Democrats.

Jon Ralston, editor of the Nevada Independent, said:

This is a unicorn year. We have never seen this. Still a lot of time but Republicans have reason for confidence with this unprecedented turnout pattern.”

Kamala Harris’ rally in Michigan was left in a moment of awkward silence Monday after an unexpected request from the Democratic nominee.

The vice president was making her final stop in Ann Arbor with a packed rally in the college town along with her running mate Tim Walz and singer Maggie Rogers.

At one point in her speech, the crowd began to rhythmically chant her name – ‘Ka-ma-la, Ka-ma-la, Ka-ma-la’ – when Harris made a feeble attempt to turn the tables.

‘Now I want each of you to shout your own name. Do that,’ Harris said with a laugh. ‘Because it’s about all of us.’

Some people began to murmur but the vast majority of people in the crowd went silent in confusion, lowering signs and looking around.

The vice president recovered quickly and continued her speech: ‘I have fought my whole career to put the people first.’

Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon has been released from prison today after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

Bannon, who is Trump’s former chief strategist, left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, this morning and was greeted by his daughter Maureen, according to The National Pulse.

Maureen confirmed her father’s release re-posting the National Pulse report on social media platform X.

He is set to hold a news conference later in the day in Manhattan and is also expected to resume his podcast today.

The radio host and political agitator was Trump’s campaign manager in the final stages of the 2016 election, having risen from his role at Breitbart to become one of the most influential right-wing voices.

Bannon joined Trump in the White House but fell out with him in spectacular fashion and turned on Trump, but was ultimately pardoned by the former president on the eve of his departure from the White House for loyally insisting that the election was stolen.

Joe Rogan has revealed that Kamala Harris agreed to appear on his podcast, but he refused the conditions suggested by her team.

Rogan, who recently had a three-hour sit down with Republican nominee Donald Trump, says the Harris campaign offered for him to interview the Vice President on Tuesday, but would require him to ‘travel to her’ and ‘only wanted to do an hour’.

‘I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin,’ he revealed Monday night on X. ‘My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen.’

Liberals have urged Harris to have a sit down with Rogan after it emerged that Trump’s interview with the podcaster amassed a staggering 17million YouTube views in less than 24 hours.

By comparison, Harris’ appearance on the Call her Daddy podcast with Alex Cooper has clocked just 685,000 views in the two weeks since it went live.

After the dramatic shake up at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket, Democrats are growing more confident in their ability to hold the White House and Senate and flip the House with Kamala Harris as their presidential nominee.

But two congressional districts could help decide the country’s fate not just at the top of the ticket come November but also both chambers of Congress: Pennsylvania’s eighth congressional district and Nebraska’s second congressional district.

The case for watching these two districts to know where the election is headed was first made by former New York Congressman and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Steve Israel.

He wrote in June ‘when the dust settles, the only information you will need in order to conclude who won the 2024 election will be the results of Pennsylvania’s 8th and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District. For the next five months, they are the center of the political universe.’

While the top of the Democratic presidential ticket has changed, the importance of both districts have not.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Voters in Michigan are leaning Donald Trump’s way with just one week until Election Day.

Among 1,000 likely voters in the critical swing state, 49 percent say they would vote for Trump compared to the 48.3 percent who would cast their ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris.

It’s also the first time that Trump has pulled ahead of Harris since July, when she took President Joe Biden’s place atop the Democratic presidential ticket.

Regardless of who they support or are voting for, the poll respondents were asked who they expect to win on November 5.

Fifty percent say they think Harris will win and 49 percent say they think the former president will earn another term.

Former President Trump on Monday denied being a Nazi, a day after holding a controversial Madison Square Garden rally where speakers used crude and racist language.

Even before the event, critics including Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz, compared it with a 1939 rally by Nazi sympathizers at the same venue.

‘I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi,’ Trump told thousands of supporters at Georgia Tech.

‘Now the way they talk is so disgusting and just horrible.’

Trump spent the day in the crucial swing state of Georgia a day after entertaining supporters in New York.

He was prayed over by faith leaders in the state in an emotional moment earlier in the day before rallying up a raucous MAGA crowd.