Presidential election 2024 live updates: Trump and Harris deadlocked in the polls as they head to North Carolina
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are spending their final weekend on the campaign trail with just three days before what could be one of the closest elections in history.
More than 60 millions of Americans have already cast their ballots, but the candidates are still pushing to persuade the final critical voters who could take them to victory.
Both will head to Charlotte, in the critical swing state of North Carolina where the polls have the race deadlocked.
The vice president will then hold a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, while Trump will be in Virginia, a state the Republicans haven’t won in a presidential election since 2024.
Follow all the developments in our live blog
Kamala Harris overtakes Trump in betting market for the first time
Kamala Harris’ chances of winning the 2024 presidential election are now greater than Donald Trump’s, according to one online prediction market.
With just three days until what could be one of the closest elections in history, the vice president has leapfrogged the Republican nominee on PredictIt.
The platform lets users share trades on the outcomes of financial and political events and has been deemed one of the most reliable when determining the outcome of this year’s race.
As of Saturday morning, shares in Harris were trading at 53 cents while Trump was at 52.
Trump is still ahead on other oddsmakers such as Polymarket.
In Real Clear Politics’ average of betting odds, Trump is almost 18 points ahead.
Harris jokes about being president ‘in three days’
Vice President Kamala Harris joked about winning the election in three days after a reporter accidentally referred to her as ‘Madame President.’
She made the quip at the start of a gaggle with traveling reporters and saying ‘the road to the White House definitely runs through Milwaukee.’
When a reporter asked her about her faith, calling her ‘Madame President,’ she responded: ‘Not for three days.’
Harris usually likes to call her self the underdog in the closely contested race.
‘Nervous’ Bill Maher makes desperate plea to undecided voters – and reveals why Kamala could lose the election
Bill Maher has made an eleventh-hour plea to undecided voters as he warned the ‘progressive mind virus’ could hold Kamala Harris back from a win.
The comedian outlined the positive impact Biden and the Democrats have had on the economy, including aggressively tackling inflation.
But he admitted so-called Christmas Eve voters were probably seeking more reassurance Harris is not going to go along with ‘every anti-common sense idea that comes out of the woke mind virus’.
‘If she loses, that will be mainly why,’ Maher warned during an episode of his HBO show Real Time on Friday.
He suggested a fear among Dems of admitting things are ‘not that bad’, deemed ‘progressophobia’ is a part of the progressive mind virus and could be hampering their chances.
Inside the once blue heartland that could be surprise ‘swing state’ – as Dems prepare to do the unimaginable
New Hampshire has barely been mentioned in this presidential race, but a recent bump in Donald Trump’s polling suggests the Republican is reversing his opponent’s comfortable lead and could even flip the state in a dramatic upset on Tuesday.
In Concord, the state capital, GOP organizers have run out of Trump yard signs due to unexpected demand. In Pelham, scores of locals turned out to wave Trump flags, blast out rock anthems and feast on pizza and cookies on Wednesday night.
Down the road, motorists honked horns and stopped to take photos of a home-made yard sign presenting Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, as the goofy ‘Dumb and Dumber’ characters from the 1994 movie.
Republican campaigners in the Granite State describe an eleventh-hour ‘surge’ of enthusiasm for Trump that’s quickly erasing the roughly six percentage-point lead that Harris enjoyed here until recently.
Voters across New Hampshire told DailyMail.com they sensed momentum gathering behind the MAGA icon, and that his promises of a secure southern border and cheaper groceries and housing were resonating.
Cardi B suffers an awkward teleprompter blunder at Kamala Harris Milwaukee rally sending staff into a frenzy
Cardi B faced with an awkward teleprompter mishap at Kamala Harris’ rally on Friday, and was forced to read her endorsement of the vice president from her phone.
The outspoken rapper was telling the packed crowd in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that she ‘wasn’t going to vote’ until the Vice-President entered the race against ‘bully’ Trump.
The Grammy-winner then stopped in her tracks when the teleprompter suddenly had technical glitch.
For around a minute she stood on stage wondering how to respond as the audience cheered.
A member of staff then had to frantically run to give her a phone, so should could finish the remarks in the battleground state.
Both candidates held rallies within seven miles of each other last night in the Milwaukee area as part of a fevered final push for votes in swing-state Wisconsin’s largest county.
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