There are just 10 days until the 2024 US presidential election when either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump will be elected to the White House.
Here’s some of today’s top Democratic news – check out the Republican news as well.
Top Democratic news today – Harris to deliver speech in Texas with Beyonce, latest polls tight
Harris to deliver address on reproductive freedom at Texas rally featuring Beyoncé
Vice President Kamala Harris will give a speech on reproductive freedom in Texas on Friday, according to a senior Harris campaign official. In the closing days of the election, Harris is leaning into the issue of abortion rights as part of her broader argument against her Republican rival, placing the blame on former President Donald Trump for abortion bans in several states and amplifying stories of the people impacted by those restrictions. And Texas was chosen as the location for the rally, campaign officials said, because it’s the epicenter of abortion bans.
Clinton says Trump is ‘more unhinged, more unstable’ than in 2016
Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump is now “more unhinged, more unstable” and more dangerous than when she faced him in the 2016 presidential election. “I think he’s more unhinged, more unstable,” she told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source.” “I think you see that all the time in both his rallies and his kind of word-salad-after-word-salad speeches.”
Harris and Obama use first joint campaign event to rally voters in battleground Georgia
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama used their first joint campaign appearance, on Thursday night in this Atlanta suburb, to issue parallel warnings about the dangers facing the country if Donald Trump is elected again to lead it.
New poll finds the key to mobilizing young voters could be peer pressure
The Harvard Youth Poll, published Friday, showed Harris leading Trump nationally by 20 points among registered voters under age 30. Across the seven major swing states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Wisconsin – where the race is more competitive, Harris’ lead dropped to 9 points.
Latest polls show tight race
A new batch of polls shows that the presidential race remains tight in many of the battleground states that are likely to matter the most, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. The latest polls in Georgia show Trump with a slight lead, but Harris campaign officials say they remain confident the state — along with its neighbor North Carolina — are still in play come November.
Celebrities rally for Kamala Harris in Georgia
Former President Barack Obama headlined an all-star rally for Kamala Harris in Georgia on Thursday, as the Democrats try to shore up support with the state’s powerful base of black voters. Obama was preceded by actor Samuel L Jackson, director Spike Lee, and director and actor Tyler Perry, as well as Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock and rocker Bruce Springsteen.