Presidential election 2024: Trump leads Kamala Harris in Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina

Donald Trump has notched a lead complete Kamala Harris successful Arizona and has stayed up successful Georgia, 2 states he mislaid to Joe Biden successful 2020, while he is clinging to a lead successful North Carolina, caller polling finds.

Voters crossed nan alleged Sun Belt opportunity that Trump improved their lives erstwhile he was president and interest that Harris will not if she wins, according to nan New York Times/Siena College polling.

The polls, taken from Sept. 17 to 21, supply nan latest denotation that this will apt beryllium 1 of nan tightest statesmanlike races successful history.

In possibly nan astir troubling news for nan vice president, Arizona, which President Biden won by conscionable complete 10,000 votes successful 2020, shows Trump up 50 percent to 45 percent, nan canvass found, compared to nan aforesaid pollsters' findings successful August, which had Harris starring by 5 percent points.

In North Carolina, which Trump won by nether 75,000 votes successful 2020, he has a slim lead complete Harris, 49-47, according to nan Times poll, conducted mostly earlier reports that Mark Robinson, nan erstwhile Trump-backed Republican campaigner for politician there, had made disturbing posts successful a pornography forum, including alluding to himself arsenic a 'Black Nazi'.

And successful Georgia, which Biden won by conscionable nether 11,800 votes successful 2020, Trump stillhas a flimsy lead, 49 percent to 45 percent, nan canvass finds.

The separator of correction successful each authorities is betwixt 4 and 5 percent points.

By Emily Goodin, elder White House correspondent

Kamala Harris will beryllium connected a battleground authorities run plaything this week, hitting nan cardinal areas of Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada.

All 3 states are captious successful her title pinch Republican rival Donald Trump.

Harris will run successful Pennsylvania Wednesday, Arizona Friday, and Nevada Sunday. On Thursday she will beryllium astatine nan White House to meet pinch Ukrainian President Zelensky.

Last week she focused connected Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia.

Her run sees nan Sunbelt and nan alleged ‘Blue Wall’ arsenic nan cardinal to nan 270 electoral votes needed to triumph nan presidency.

Her campaign’s infrastructure and organizing crossed these battlegrounds is acold outpacing Trump’s, her squad argues.

Trump will beryllium successful Pennsylvania connected Monday, Georgia connected Tuesday, and Michigan connected Friday.

Management for Janet Jackson opportunity that an unauthorized statement said connected nan singer's behalf successful a previously-released apology complete remarks she made complete Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris' background.

Reps for 58-year-old Jackson, whose brothers were successful nan Jackson Five who were down specified hits arsenic Blame It On The Boogie, told Variety that nan widely-released connection came from personification who is not a head for nan Grammy-winning artist.

According to nan outlet, a personification identifying themselves arsenic Mo Elmasri 'apparently inaccurately' told Buzzfeed he was nan singer's rep successful nan mea culpa for nan statements astir nan vice president.

The connection from Elmasri read: 'Janet Jackson would for illustration to explain her caller comments. She recognizes that her statements regarding Vice President Kamala Harris' group personality were based connected misinformation.

It continued: 'Janet respects Harris' dual practice arsenic some Black and Indian and apologizes for immoderate disorder caused.

Congressional leaders announced an statement Sunday connected a short-term spending measure that will money national agencies for astir 3 months.

The move would avert a imaginable partial authorities shutdown erstwhile nan caller fund twelvemonth originates October 1 and pushes last decisions until aft nan November election.

Temporary spending bills mostly money agencies astatine existent levels, but an further $231 cardinal was included to bolster nan Secret Service aft nan 2 assassination attempts against Donald Trump.

Additional money was besides added to assistance pinch nan statesmanlike transition, among different things.

Lawmakers have struggled to get to this constituent arsenic nan existent fund twelvemonth winds to a adjacent astatine month's end.

At nan urging of nan astir blimpish members of his conference, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had linked impermanent backing pinch a instruction that would person compelled states to require impervious of citizenship erstwhile group registry to vote.

But Johnson abandoned that attack to scope an agreement, moreover arsenic Trump insisted location should not beryllium a stop-gap measurement without nan voting requirement.

Bipartisan negotiations began successful earnest soon aft that, pinch activity agreeing to widen backing into mid-December.

Donald Trump revealed he apt will not tally for president successful 2028 if he loses nan predetermination to Vice President Kamala Harris .

The 78-year-old erstwhile president told 'Full Measure' pinch Sharyl Attkisson successful an question and reply that aired Sunday that he does not spot himself moving different run if he does not triumph nan White House successful November.

'If you're not successful this time, do you spot yourself moving again successful 4 years?' Attkisson asked Trump.

'No, I don’t. I think… that will beryllium it. I don’t spot that astatine all. Hopefully, we’re gonna beryllium successful,' Trump said.

The erstwhile president would beryllium 82 years aged by nan 2028 election.

If he wins successful 2024 he will beryllium incapable to tally again arsenic U.S presidents tin only service for 2 position - 8 years.

A apical Donald Trump state is pressuring Nebraska Republicans to grant each of their state's Electoral College votes to nan statewide winner, a late-stage norm alteration that could perchance thief return Trump to nan White House.

Nebraska and Maine are nan only states that divided their electoral votes by legislature district, and some person done truthful successful caller statesmanlike elections.

In Nebraska, which is solidly Republican, that intends 1 of nan state's 5 votes is competitory for Democrats.

The territory successful mobility is nan constituency encompassing Omaha, which could spell either measurement travel November.

Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C., met precocious pinch GOP lawmakers successful nan authorities to promote them to make a alteration supported by nan state's all-Republican legislature delegation and Republican Gov. Jim Pillen .

The alteration was discussed earlier this twelvemonth but lacked nan votes to pass. Now, pinch Trump successful an highly adjacent title against Democrat Kamala Harris wherever each electoral ballot matters, his friends are making different push.

‘To my friends successful Nebraska, that 1 electoral ballot could beryllium nan quality betwixt Harris being president and not, and she’s a disaster for Nebraska and nan world,’ Graham said Sunday connected NBC's Meet nan Press.

(With reporting from nan Associated Press)

America's apical election forecaster has issued a chilling informing arsenic he revealed Trump could triumph nan 2024 title and group should commencement making 'contingency plans' now.

Nate Silver, a erstwhile master poker subordinate and governmental forecaster, has revealed his exemplary gives Donald Trump a 58 percent chance of winning nan Electoral College.

Silver, known for his uncanny expertise to foretell predetermination outcomes, told The Guardian that group should beryllium 'making their contingency plans, like, correct away' while promoting his caller book 'On nan Edge' successful London.

'One imaginable advantage of having a forecast that says … it's 50/50, is that group should beryllium making their contingency plans, like, correct away,' he said.

'It doesn't mean you request [to stockpile] ammo and peanut butter' – that giggle again – 'but it means, you know: what's your strategy to protect American institutions successful nan arena of a Trump 2nd term?'

It was later revealed she sent the 70-year-old scion nudes, described arsenic 'demure' by a root who said to Puck News - nan outlet to first study nan communicative Friday night.

However, a Substack journalist and 'friend' of RFK Jr. says that this was portion of a relentless run to woo him, though sources adjacent to Nuzzi person claimed she was not nan aggressor successful nan situation.

Jessica Read Kraus claims that her friend Kennedy first received interaction from Nuzzi successful November of 2023 aft she'd published nan communicative astir going hiking pinch nan statesmanlike candidate.