US elections: 10 days left – What the polls say, what Harris and Trump are planning | 2024 US Election News

With 10 days until Election Day, the race for the White House between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remains very tight in every battleground state across the country.

Candidates Harris, Trump and their proxies began the election campaign in full force.

Singer Beyoncé Knowles, her former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland and country singer Willie Nelson have all tried to use their star power to turn out voters for Harris in Texas.

Meanwhile, Trump gave a three-hour interview to podcaster Joe Rogan. He then traveled to Michigan, where he belatedly addressed a crowd thinned by delays.

What’s the latest news from the polls?

The latest national poll, conducted by the New York Times and Siena College from October 20 to 23, 2024, showed Harris and Trump tied at 48 percent nationally. The remaining 4 percent are still undecided.

Among likely female voters, Harris has a 54 percent to 42 percent lead over Trump. But the former president makes up for it among male voters, with 55 percent to 41 percent backing Harris.

Harris has the most support from voters ages 18 to 29 (55 percent to Trump’s 43 percent), while Trump leads 51 percent to 44 percent among voters ages 45 to 64.

To Harris’ concern, 61 percent of respondents said the country is on the wrong track, while 27 percent said it is on the right track.

Meanwhile, poll tracker FiveThirtyEight, which calculates the average of several national polls, shows Harris holding a slim 48 percent lead to Trump’s 46.6 percent. But her lead of 1.4 percentage points is lower than the 1.8 percentage point earlier this week.

While national polls provide valuable insight into voter sentiment, the final winner will be determined by the Electoral College, which reflects results in individual states.

The seven key swing states that could determine the election results are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Together, these states account for 93—or a third—of the 270 electoral colleges needed to win the election.

Trump has a 1 percent lead in North Carolina and a 2 percent lead in Arizona and Georgia, according to FiveThirtyEight’s latest polling average. And less than half a percentage point separates Harris and Trump in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with Trump leading narrowly in Pennsylvania and Nevada and Harris with narrow leads in Michigan and Wisconsin.

All results are within the margin of error, and the outcome of the vote can change in any direction.

What did Kamala Harris do on Friday?

Harris campaigned alongside musicians Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Willie Nelson in Houston, Texas.

During the stop, Harris emphasized her support for abortion rights as she sought to create a contrast with Trump and make gains among women voters.

Texas hasn’t supported a Democratic president since 1976, and Republican Trump is almost certain to win the state’s 40 Electoral College votes.

But Democrats are betting it will provide a powerful backdrop for Harris to talk about abortion rights in the final days before the Nov. 5 election. The state, under Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, has adopted some of the country’s toughest anti-abortion rules.

What did Donald Trump do on Friday?

Trump also campaigned in Texas on Friday, stopping in Austin to tap an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Rogan is perhaps the most popular podcaster in the United States, with tens of millions of followers on social media, most of them men. Rogan’s podcast has 17.5 million subscribers on YouTube alone and 14 million on Spotify. According to Media Monitors, the average age of his listeners is 24 years old.

In the Rogan interview, Trump again suggested that he favors eliminating the income tax and replacing lost revenue with tariffs.

Trump then went to a rally in Traverse City, Michigan, where he addressed Harris’s struggles with the state’s large Arab American population, which could determine the outcome of a very close race.

Trump leads Harris 45 percent to 43 percent among Arab Americans with two weeks left before voters choose the next U.S. president, with much of the community unhappy with the Biden administration, according to an Arab News/YouGov poll released Monday. Harris is partly for his unwavering support for Israel’s war in Gaza and Lebanon.

“Kamala is also in complete free fall along with Michigan’s Arab and Muslim populations. She’s in free fall,” Trump said. “It has sent their jobs overseas, brought crime to their cities, and tonight in the Middle East it is like a powder keg waiting to explode. People are being killed at a level we’ve never seen before.”

He also mentioned Harris’ unlikely alliance with former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is campaigning for vice president. Cheney, who has had a long-running feud with Trump, is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, a central figure in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. “And why do Muslims support Kamala when she hugs Muslim-hating Liz Cheney?” Trump asked, addressing the crowd.

What’s next for the Harris and Trump campaigns?

Harris will campaign Saturday in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with former first lady Michelle Obama.

The get-out-the-vote rally will be Michelle Obama’s first Harris campaign event.

Saturday is the first day of early voting across the state of Michigan.

Meanwhile, Trump plans to hold several events in Pennsylvania on Saturday but will begin his day with a rally in Michigan.

Trump ally J.D. Vance will stop campaigning in Atlanta, Georgia, before heading to Erie and Harrisburg in Pennsylvania.