2024 presidential election live updates: Poll shows Trump and Kamala in a dead heat… but a candidate leading in a crucial swing state

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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are neck-and-neck in the polls with just 46 days left until Election Day.

A New York Times/Siena poll released Thursday morning found both candidates supported by 47 percent of voters nationwide.

However, the same poll shows Harris with a four-point lead in the crucial battleground of Pennsylvania, one of the states that will ultimately decide the election.

However, according to another Washington Post poll, the race is essentially tied in the Keystone State, with both campaigns believing that winning the state would secure the path to victory.

The results of a DailyMail.com poll also showed that a majority of Americans — including most Trump supporters — want a second debate between him and Harris.

A survey of 1,000 likely voters found that 63 percent said they would have to meet again on the debate stage.

Follow all the updates on the final sprint in the 2024 presidential election in our live blog.

Even Trump’s own supporters want him to debate Harris again, according to a Daily Mail poll

Ask any Donald Trump fan at his Wednesday night rally on Long Island whether he should debate Kamala Harris again and the answer is unanimous: yes.

“I think you should try it,” said Andrew Peters, a 49-year-old auto body shop owner, wearing a “F**k Hamas” T-shirt. “What does he have to lose?”

Trump has repeatedly rejected the idea after declaring himself the winner of last week’s televised meeting.

But a poll by JL Partners for DailyMail.com shows that American voters overwhelmingly favor a second showdown between the two candidates, with a clear majority of voters being Trump’s own supporters.

A survey of 1,000 likely voters found that 63 percent said they would have to meet again on the debate stage.

Only 19 percent indicated that this was not necessary.

When only Republicans were considered, 54 percent wanted a second debate, and that grew to 59 percent of those who said they would vote for Trump themselves in November.

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Trump, Harris remain deadlocked in polls despite VP’s debate ‘win’

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Despite Kamala Harris’ convincing performance in the debate against Donald Trump earlier this month, polls show no sign of the vice president making any progress since then.

The stalemate between Trump and Harris is much the same nationally, both before and after their Sept. 10 debate.

Harris has maintained her statistically insignificant lead over Trump since the first polls of her over the former president were released in early August.

In Pennsylvania, one of the key states to win the presidency in November, Harris has a 4 percent lead over Trump: 50 percent to 46 percent.

2024 presidential election live updates Poll shows Trump and Kamala

Trump says he thought he had the ‘best debate’ and didn’t challenge moderators because he ‘wanted to be elegant’

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that when he left the stage last week, he thought he had had “the best debate” and that he didn’t challenge the moderators because he “wanted to be elegant.”

Trump reflected on his confrontation with Vice President Kamala Harris last Tuesday on the Fox News program Gutfeld.

While most polls showed viewers were convinced Harris had decisively won last week’s debate in Philadelphia, Trump admitted he came away with a different impression.

“And I walked off that stage and I thought I had the best debate. And I was treated very unfairly by the host. I’m not a fan of those guys anymore. And his hair was better five years ago,” Trump said of ABC News’ David Muir. “That happens. That happens with the clock.”

Trump noted that he had been considered the best debate moderator of all time up to that point and complained that Muir and his co-moderator Linsey Davis had checked his facts “nine or 11 times” and never corrected Harris.

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Trump reveals plans to visit Springfield, Ohio, in the next two weeks to directly address migrant claims, jokes: ‘You may never see me again’

Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he plans to visit the city at the center of false claims about migrants within two weeks, as he aims to put immigration at the center of the election campaign.

His supporters cheered when he made a lame joke about visiting Springfield, Ohio, at a rally on Long Island.

“You may never see me again,” he said, delighting thousands of people gathered at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, who chanted, “Save the cats.”

“But that’s okay, you have to do what you have to do.”

Unsubstantiated claims about Haitian migrants in the city eating cats and other pets have been circulating in the dark corners of the internet for weeks.

But last week it exploded when Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, spread a baseless rumor that migrants were targeting cats.

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