Presidential polls live updates: Trump gets another boost over Harris after polls show him closing the gap

For the first time ahead of an election since the era of Ronald Reagan there are more registered Republicans than Democrats going into an election.

The statistics are a big boost for Donald Trump and Republicans trying to retake the Senate.

In 2020 Democrats had an eight-point advantage in numbers of registered voters.

In 2016, when Trump won anyway, Democrats had a three-point advantage.

This time Republicans are one point ahead.

It was the first time they have held such an advantage since 1984 – when Reagan won in a landslide.

Betting platform Kalshi has updated its betting odds for the 2024 presidential election.

The site that bills itself as the ‘only legal prediction market in the US’ gives Donald Trump a 53 percent chance of winning with Kamala Harris at 47 percent.

The 2024 presidential election could be one of the closest in history.

Polls show former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck-and-neck during one of the most unprecedented campaigns in recent memory.

The race has been dominated by assassination attempts, two drama-filled debates and President Joe Biden making the monumental decision to forgo a chance at a second term by dropping out of the race.

Every day there are dramatic twists and turns that are shaping the biggest conversation in the nation: Who will be the next president?

As the United States races toward Election Day on November 5, DailyMail.com is launching its first politics newsletter to keep you up to date with the most important developments.

Donald Trump vowed to bolster the beleaguered Border Patrol with thousands of new agents should he be elected to rectify what he calls the Biden-Harris importation of migrants.

The agency has recently faced employee retainment and recruitment issues, in addition to low morale as many field agents have been assigned processing duty amid the historic wave of 10 million or so migrants encountered in the last 3.5 years.

The ex-president’s policy proposal came during a rally before thousands Sunday in Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona — an hour and a half north of Phoenix up through winding passes bisecting red pillar-like mountains.

Donald Trump vowed to bolster the beleaguered Border Patrol with thousands of new agents should he be elected to rectify what he calls the Biden-Harris importation of migrants.

The agency has recently faced employee retainment and recruitment issues, in addition to low morale as many field agents have been assigned processing duty amid the historic wave of 10 million or so migrants encountered in the last 3.5 years.

The ex-president’s policy proposal came during a rally before thousands Sunday in Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona — an hour and a half north of Phoenix up through winding passes bisecting red pillar-like mountains.

Eager border state attendants cheered enthusiastically when Trump brought up the Border Patrol and his past success working with them: ‘You know what I did, I called them up and said ‘close the border,’’ he recalled before crediting himself for low migration numbers.

Then he promised if he wins on Election Day: ‘The migrant invasion ends and the restoration of our country begins.’

To do that, Trump said he wanted to hire scores of new Border Patrol agents.

Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris has unveiled plans to legalize recreational marijuana and create ‘forgivable’ business loans for black entrepreneurs in a bid to win the black vote.

Harris’ presidential campaign has been under pressure to win more votes from black men in particular, with polls revealing she is in a lower standing by the voting bloc than Joe Biden when he ran in 2020.

While 85 percent of black men said they would vote for Biden in 2020, 75 percent said they would vote for the current vice president.

Her new plans, unveiled today, include providing forgivable business loans for black entrepreneurs, creating more apprenticeships and studying sickle cell and other diseases that disproportionately affect African American men.

Harris already has said she supports legalizing marijuana and her plan calls for working to ensure that black men have opportunities to participate as a ‘national cannabis industry takes shape.’

She also is calling for better regulating cryptocurrency to protect black men and others who invest in digital assets.

If it was not already clear then our latest poll from the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania lays out in the starkest possible terms how the presidential election will come right down to the wire.

It shows that Vice President Kamala Harris and Former President Donald Trump are locked in a dead heat.

If the election were held tomorrow each would win 47 percent of the vote in a state that holds the keys to the White House, according to our latest DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll.

The state is likely to provide the tipping point in the election. Its 19 electoral college votes could take one candidate or the other past the threshold for victory on Nov. 5.

Of all the seven big battlegrounds, this is the most consequential.

In a presidential election that will be decided by the slimmest of margins, every decision counts.

But has Kamala Harris made a mistake with her choice of running mate?

A new DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll shows that she is tied with Donald Trump in the likely tipping point state of Pennsylvania.

Yet she would be ahead if she had added its governor, Josh Shapiro, to her ticket instead of Tim Walz from Minnesota.

When likely voters were asked who they would back, 47 percent said Harris/Shapiro, one point more than said they would vote for Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.