Harris Ellipse speech live: VP slams ‘unstable’ Trump’s obsession with ‘revenge’ in closing election pitch

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Kamala Harris took to the stage to deliver her closing argument to the nation.

One week out to Election Day, the Democratic nominee is addressing the nation to make her case for the presidency.

She will use her address to attack Republican rival Donald Trump.

‘I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy. He wants to put them in jail. I’ll give them a seat at my table,’ she will say according to excerpts released from her campaign. ‘I pledge to be a President for ALL Americans.’

Harris is speaking on the Ellipse portion of the National Mall with the White House in the background.

The spot was picked deliberately. It’s the same spot Trump addressed his supporters on January 6th, 2021, and encouraged them to march on the Capitol in what became an attempt to overthrow the election results.

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to address supporters at 7.30pm Eastern Time from The Ellipse outside the White House.

The Democratic nominee will invoke memories of January 6 to make her case to American voters while she is choice for the next President of the United States.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are tied in the key state of Pennsylvania according to the latest poll.

CBS News has both Harris and Trump at 49 percent among likely voters with one week to go before Election Day.

The top issues for voters in the Keystone State the poll found were the economy and inflation followed by the state of democracy.

Harris will be speaking this evening at the Ellipse in Washington, DC where she will give her closing argument speech.

Our friends at J.L. Partners have been crunching the numbers and have an update to their election model. The upshot is that time is running out for Kamala Harris to turn things around.

It shows that Trump still has a commanding lead in the probabilities and Harris’ chances have taken a dip with her losing a big advantage in the popular vote.

However, she has slightly closed the gap in the overall Electoral College result. Trump has seen his lead slip slightly, and he now wins in 68.5 percent of simulations, leaving Harris on about 31.5 percent.

The top level outcomes remain unchanged and Trump is still expected to win 312 Electoral College votes to Harris’ 226.

However, Pennsylvania was edging towards becoming a ‘LIKELY TRUMP’ state, but has slipped back and remains ‘LEAN TRUMP.’

This is the latest briefing note from Callum Hunter, J.L. Partner’s data scientist:

Things remain pretty static with one week to go. Trump is set to carry the Electoral College in around two-thirds of cases but that leaves a 33 percent chance that Harris could still win the race. Models from various pollsters have this race much closer than in previous cycles – even if the general direction is towards a Trump presidency. Harris must win the popular vote if she hopes to win the Electoral College – only 1 percent of her wins arise without the popular vote win – but national polls are less sure than ever about those prospects. Our model has her popular vote win probability at just 52 percent, while other aggregators (RCP) have Harris losing the popular vote. There is a chance Harris still wins but the window is closing.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff spotted in the crowd ahead of the vice president’s speech:

Kamala Harris campaign claims there are 75,000 people on the National Mall tonight to watch the vice president deliver her closing argument speech.

DC police had been expecting just over 50,000.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Kamala Harris will spend election night at her alma mater at Howard University in Washington D.C.

Harris obtained her bachelor’s degree from the university. Her campaign is looking at holding a massive event on the university quad, NBC News reported.

Donald Trump’s campaign said it will host an election night watch party at a convention center in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the former president has a resort.

Melania Trump said on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning that the couple will vote in Florida on Election Day, Nov. 5th. They live in Palm Beach.

Nikki Haley told Fox News on Tuesday night that she hasn’t spoken to Donald Trump in more than four months, but is on standby for to campaign if needed.

She defended the former president, despite the animosity during the Republican primaries.

‘You don’t have to agree with Trump 100 percent of the time to vote for him.

‘With Donald Trump, we know what we’re going to get. We lived the economy under Donald Trump.

‘We know how strong he was on the border. We know how energy dominant we were.’

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent on the National Mall

Metal fencing surrounded the entire area south of the White House as long lines formed to go through the magnetometers.

Thick bullet proof glass stood in front and to the sides of where Harris would speak – as the White House could be viewed behind the podium.

Helicopters buzzed overhead as it got closer to the vice president’s arrival. Security was seen on the roof.

The line to get in is reported to go back to the Tidal Basin.

We need change, and Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are NOT the option to bring about the kind of change that you need and want and certainly not the strong leadership that the United States as a nation needs during these times of turmoil.

Her endorsement comes as Trump weathers criticism after a comedian made derogatory statements about the U.S. territory at his rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Former presidential candidateNikki Haley told Fox News on Tuesday that Kamala Harris is trying to evoke memories of January 6 because she doesn’t want to revisit the last four years.

In an interview with Brett Baier, the ex-South Carolina governor she said most Americans have already made up their mind with how they feel about the day a mob stormed the Capitol.

The election in seven days, she said, is about whether voters want a repeat of the last four years.

I find it interesting that, you know, she has decided to go back to that January 6th moment.

A lot of Americans have decided where they are on January 6th. I personally have said it was a terrible day. We should never revisit it again.

But, while she wants to go back to January 6th, what she doesn’t want to visit is what has happened since January 6th. Because we have had four years of record inflation. We have had unconscionable amounts of illegal immigrants, 500,000 criminal illegals alone coming across that border.

You look at the fact that Afghanistan fell under their watch, unleashing this World War that we are now having to deal with that’s the four years she doesn’t want to talk about.

The fact that she goes back to January 6th, people know how they feel about January 6th.

What they are living right now and what they are deciding on is whether they want another four years like the four years they just lived.

By Nikki Schawb, Chief Campaign Correspondent on the National Mall

Attendees were greeted with a party-like atmosphere, where Pretty Tammi the DJ – dressed in Harris’ sorority colors – was blasting modern hits, including a J. Lo tune.

‘Make some noise for Puerto Rico!’ she said from the raised platform, a shout-out clearly aimed at the hateful comments about the island made by a pro-Trump comedian at Madison Square Garden Sunday night.

Now J. Lo will be appearing alongside Harris at her Thursday night rally in Las Vegas.

Harris supporters waved American flags as the crowd stretched outside the perimeter, across Constitution Ave.

One man sported a Biden-Harris hat where he put blue tape over the president’s name to accurately reflect who’s now at the top of the Democratic ticket.

D.C. type celebrities were on hand – MSNBC’s Simone Sanders, former Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman – who’s leading Harris’ GOP outreach in Virginia – and Matthew Fried, the comedian known for his dead-on impressions of American presidents, who performed earlier this year at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

As the 2024 general election season heats up, Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in a tight race that could come down to just a few thousand votes in several battleground states.

But with polls calling the race too close to call, maybe even the closest in modern history, there’s a question over whether either major party presidential hopeful will reach the necessary 270 Electoral College votes to win the November 5 election outright.

Each candidate needs to find a path to victory that inevitably winds through crucial – and currently within the polling margin of error swing states.

But even then, there is a scenario where the election results in neither candidate winning the required majority in the Electoral College and could tie 269-269.

So what then? Well, it has happened before – albeit not in 200 years!

A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to force election battleground state Pennsylvania to strengthen its procedures for verifying ballots submitted by military and overseas voters.

Six Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives seeking reelection on Nov. 5 had sued Pennsylvania’s top election officials on September 30.

The Republicans had argued that the state was improperly exempting overseas voters from a requirement that their identity documents be verified, creating a vulnerability for fraudulent votes to be submitted

Washoe County election workers sort ballots in Reno (above)

The manager of a key swing county in northern Nevada is out on medical leave, a departure announced just days before the election.

Washoe County has received attention in recent weeks after turnover at the top of the elections office there in one of the seven battleground states that will decide the election.

Now, with the departure of Manager Eric Brown, both elections and county government operations will be overseen by deputies during what is expected to be a very close election in this politically important county.

The county confirmed Tuesday that Brown is on leave for a planned medical procedure and will be out through late November. Assistant County Manager Dave Solaro will step in until Brown returns.

County officials are trying to quell any concerns that the shuffling of staff would affect operations in Nevada´s second most-populous county.

County spokeswoman Bethany Drysdale said that Solaro served as the interim manager for several months before Brown was hired in 2019 and that he has been with the county for more than two decades.

(with Associated Press reporting)

The biggest election night 2024 mystery may not be whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris gets the White House – but when Americans will find out who won.

With polls showing the race a virtual coin flip between Trump and Harris, the November 5 election looks to be perhaps the closest in history.

That will likely spell a long, drawn out round of mail-in ballot counts and even recounts depending on the state.

If any of the seven battlegrounds are close, counting could drag on well into November 6 and beyond.

The 2020 election was not called for Joe Biden until four days later – on the following Saturday.

On Election Day in 2000, Democrat Al Gore conceded in the wee hours the next morning, but then spectacularly rescinded his not-legally-binding concession

Around 50,000 fans are expected to attend Kamala Harris’ speech in Washington D.C. on Tuesday night.

Fans waving American flags and holding signs reading ‘freedom’ filled the grass in the shadow of the Washington Monument.

Kamala Harris said Donald Trump is ‘fanning the flames of division and hate’ after being asked for her response to running mate Tim Walz comparing his Madison Square Garden rally to a 1939 Nazi event.

‘I have said what I have to say which is he is dangerous and unfit,’ she told Milwaukee TV station WISN 12.

She didn’t avoided saying whether she agreed with Walz’s assessment and instead tried used it to contrast her vision for America, which she will lay out in Washington D.C.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Allentown, Pennsylvania

Donald Trump bragged that he’s done more to help Puerto Rico than any other U.S. president.

The claim came during a round table in a Philadelphia suburb on Tuesday – just two days after a comedian at the former president’s rally in New York City compared the U.S. territory to a ‘floating pile of garbage.’

Trump has faced a barrage of criticism for the ‘racist’ remarks, even though he didn’t make them.

But round table participant Maribel Valdez, who was born in Puerto Rico and moved to the U.S. at 17, said the territory stands with Trump”

Mr. President, I just wanted to tell you that I moved here in 1981 from Puerto Rico. And I want you to know that Puerto Rico stands behind you and Puerto Rico loves you.

‘Well we love it, I know it very well,’ Trump replied. ‘And we helped you through a lot of bad storms, and, I’ll tell you, we had some really bad ones… Took care of a lot of people.’

But I think no president’s done more for Puerto Rico than I have. So thank you, that’s very nice of you to say.

Meanwhile, a large group of Latino protesters gathered outside the venue for Trump’s rally after the round table on Tuesday evening.

Puerto Rican and other Latino protesters stand outside the PLL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania ahead of Trump’s rally there Tuesday evening

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency appeal to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential ballot in two battleground states.

Kennedy wanted to get off the ballot in Wisconsin and Michigan after dropping his independent bid and endorsing Republican Donald Trump in the tight contest. He argued that keeping him on violated his First Amendment rights.

Michigan and Wisconsin said removing his name now, with early voting underway days before the election, would be impossible.

The justices did not detail their reason in rejecting the emergency appeal. Justice Neil Gorsuch dissented in the Michigan case.

The Associated Press contributed to this post.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Trump joined voters in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania for a roundtable ahead of his rally just an hour down the road in Allentown.

The trip to Pennsylvania comes after the former president held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago earlier on Tuesday.

Trump took questions from members of the round table in Drexel Hill, which is about eight miles from downtown Philadelphia.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee hosted the event with the former president.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Kamala Harris scored a bump in the polls, but it won’t matter since it’s from children who can’t vote.

The results from Nickelodeon’s ‘Kids Pick the President’ poll have revealed the cartoon-watching youth of America want the vice president in the White House.

But it’s a slim margin with Harris receiving 52 percent of the vote, followed by former President Donald Trump with 48 percent.

More than 32,000 kids cast their virtual ballot in the poll which ran from October 3-23, according to Nickelodeon.

But the light-hearted survey of youngsters has stirred some very dark emotions among adults on social media who have been going on curse-laden tirades after seeing the poll’s outcome.

Eric Trump has revealed his advice for ‘the world’s most famous bachelor’ – his younger brother Barron – as the teenager heads off to college.

Trump’s youngest son Barron, 18, has become the subject of public fascination, in large part because Donald and Melania have been successful in shielding him from the intense spotlight.

Steve Bannon revealed to the press on Tuesday that he spoke to Donald Trump as a newly-freed man.

He wouldn’t reveal what they discussed during a press conference marking his release from prison after serving four months for contempt of court.

He also took a shot at Nancy Pelosi who said prison would ‘break’ him.

More than 50 million Americans have already voted a week before Election Day, data reveals.

The University of Florida early vote tracker shows that records have been broken across the country.

Roughly 39 percent are registered Democrats, while 36 percent are Republicans.

A new poll gives Donald Trump a one-point lead over Kamala Harris in the key battleground state of Wisconsin.

The Suffolk University poll had Trump on 48 percent and Harris on 47 percent.

Polling guru Nate Silver called it the ‘most important poll of the day.’

Not much of a lead but the Badger State has gone from polls showing a slight Harris lead to a pure toss-up.

J. Lo will now be joining Vice President Kamala Harris at her Thursday night rally in Las Vegas.

Lopez, whose parents were born in Puerto Rico, shared on Sunday afternoon a video of Harris explaining her plans for the island, which is a U.S. territory.

Later that night, Tony Hinchcliffe, a comedian at former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’

His ‘joke’ has triggered widespread backlash and could do damage to Trump’s standing among voters with Puerto Rican heritage – of which there are nearly half a million in the must-win state of Pennsylvania.

In Nevada, another of the seven battleground states, there are approximately 27,230 Puerto Ricans – a much smaller group – but in 2020 President Joe Biden only won the state by 33,596.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Kamala Harris’ campaign released excerpts of her speech that she will give tonight on the National Mall. Her campaign is billing the speech as her closing argument to the American people.

In it, she will attack Donald Trump and ‘offer a different path’ to Americans.

…. Donald Trump has told us his Priorities for a second term.

He has an Enemies List of people he intends to prosecute.

He says one of his highest priorities is to set free the violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers on January 6th.

Donald Trump intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him. People he calls—quote—“the enemy from within.” This is not a candidate for President who is thinking about how to make your life better.

– Consumed with grievance,

– And out for unchecked power.

Donald Trump has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other. That’s who he is.

But America, I am here tonight to say: that’s not who we are.

America, we know what Donald Trump has in mind. More chaos. More division. And policies that help those at the very top and hurt everyone else. I offer a different path. And I ask for your vote.

And here is my pledge to you:

I pledge to seek common ground and common sense solutions to make your lives better. I am not looking to score political points. I am looking to make progress.

I pledge to listen to experts. To those who will be impacted by the decisions I make. And to people who disagree with me. Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy. He wants to put them in jail. I’ll give them a seat at my table.

And I pledge to be a President for all Americans. To always put country above party and above self.

President Joe Biden made a stop for ice cream during his trip to Baltimore only to find a shop without his favorite flavor: chocolate chip.

Biden stopped at B’More Licks in Baltimore’s waterfront Canton neighborhood.

He asked for chocolate chip ice cream but was told by an employee at the counter that they don’t carry the flavor. She added: ‘I would have made some if I knew you were coming!’

So the president ordered one scoop of vanilla and one of chocolate instead.

While waiting, the president told reporters with him that he would watch Kamala Harris’ speech at the Ellipse tonight.

A transgender Democrat voter was arrested for making death threats against Donald Trump the day before he appeared at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Paul J. Gavenonis, 74, was detained after she was overheard making the remarks while trying to obtain a parking pass at Penn State University.

Gavenonis declared, ‘I hate Donald Trump, I’d like to shoot that guy’ according to police, who say she also mimed a ‘racking gun motion’ with her hands, the Lexington Herald Leader reports.

Gavenonis has been charged with misdemeanor counts of terror threats and disorderly conduct.

She was reported by the clerk who issued the parking pass after Gavenonis described climbing to the top of a building and said ‘you can’t take a gun in or the students will see it’.

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is addressing the media after spending six months in prison for defying his subpoena to testifuy to the January 6 committee.

‘I thinkyou can see today I am far from broken,’ he said. ‘I have been powered by my four months at Danbury Federal Prison.

‘Nancy Pelosi thought a federal prison was going to break me. Well, it empowered me…So Nancy Pelosi, suck on that,’ he added in his defiant remarks.

Vice President Kamala Harris remains unable to prove her claim she worked at McDonald’s while she was a college student, despite repeated taunting from former President Donald Trump.

‘I’ve now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala at McDonald’s,’ Trump told reporters and customers after he made French fries and served food out of the drive-thru service window on Sunday.

The Harris campaign maintains that Harris worked at a McDonald’s location on Central Avenue in Alameda, California during the summer after her freshman year at Howard University in 1983.

But staff at the restaurant have reportedly been sworn to secrecy and when DailyMail.com contacted them to ask, an employee said ‘no, sorry’.

Details of a horrific rape case plea deal brokered by the assistant district attorney while she was district attorney exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com calls into question her commitment to protecting women.

In 2008, Lillian Gradillas was sitting in a party bus late at night after she was not allowed into a nightclub because she lacked the proper identification to enter with the rest of her family and friends.

The driver, Gustavo Rosales, attacked Gradillas multiple times on the bus before forcibly raping her, despite her attempt to fight off his advances, according to court testimony.

At the time, Rosales was ‘illegally in the United States, convicted of assaulting his spouse, evading his child support obligations and unqualified to operate a bus’ according to the plaintiff complaint filed in a civil suit against the company.

Across the United States, Democrats are out knocking on doors and rallying support with just over two weeks to go before Election Day. But north of the border in Canada, a flurry of activity ahead of the 2024 election is also underway.

The presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris appears razor-thin, so Democrats are looking for American voters wherever they might be to cast ballots including Canada.

The exact number of Americans living abroad is hard to determine, but it is believed more than four million U.S. citizens are living overseas.

The top country where adult U.S. citizens are living outside the U.S. is Canada.

Some 605,000 adult U.S. citizens are living north of the border according to the non-partisan Federal Voting Assistance Program.

With that it does not come as a surprise perhaps that Democrats are hitting the pavement in the U.S. voter rich country searching for eligible voters.

Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris line up to see her make her ‘closing argument’ speech Tuesday night on the Ellipse.

One man was spotted carrying a Trump balloon with a swastika, as well as a paper mache Trump display of the GOP nominee being flushed down the toilet.

The speech is expected to take place at 7 p.m. ET in the same location where former President Donald Trump addressed his supporters before they defiled the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

In a campaign that is shattering spending records, a handful of individuals are accounting for a massive splurge that is driving the ad spending voters are seeing on billboards and smartphones in battleground states.

Among them are billionaires who amassed fortunes in railroads, hedge funds, and shipping platforms.

The five top mega-donors are all backing Republicans, with Donald Trump relying on their support to try to counter the edge Kamala Harris has garnered among individual contributors.

Topping the list is Timothy Mellon, the grandson of leading financier and Pittsburgh native Andrew Mellon. He alone accounts for $172 million in campaign contributions, with $125 million going to the pro-Trump MAGA, Inc.

He also gave $25 million to American Values 2024, which backs Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who ended his independent campaign and threw his support to Trump.

The former president put him on his transition effort and said he will take on health responsibilities in a future Trump administration.

Kamala Harris has gotten a bump in the polls… from children.

The results from Nickelodeon’s ‘Kids Pick the President ‘poll have revealed the cartoon-watching you of America want the vice president in the White House.

Harris received 52 percent of the vote, followed by GOP nominee Donald Trump with 48 percent.

More than 32,000 kids cast their virtual ballot in the poll from Oct. 3-23, according to Nickelodeon

Children were asked for their views on many topics, including the economy, AI and health.

Puerto Rico’s ‘Shadow U.S. Senator’ Zoraida Buxo is backing Donald Trump and is expected to attend his rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday.

It comes two days after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s wild set at Donald Trump‘s Madison Square Garden rally.

While Puerto Ricans living in the U.S. do not have electoral votes for president in the general election, they can elect representation to Congress. That delegate, however, only gets to vote in procedural matters, not on legislation.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

The New York Stock Exchange halted trading of Donald Trump’s DJT stock citing recent volatility.

Trump Media & Technology Group, which goes under the ticker DJT, debuted on the market earlier this year and has varied widely in price.

The share price jumped over 12 percent Tuesday and the exchange repeatedly stopped buyers from buying or selling it for certain periods of time.

As of 2 pm ET on Tuesday the stock was trading around $52 per share.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Kamala Harris is lighting up Las Vegas at the historic Sphere.

The vice president’s image flashed across the renowned spherical video screen with a message urging people to ‘Vote for Harris Walz’ in order to ‘Vote for Freedom’ and ‘Vote for Opportunity.’

‘When we vote, we win,’ one image reads with the slogan often featured at Harris’ campaign rallies.

Nevada is one of the seven battleground swing states of which the others are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

The western swing states are divided over whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris should be the next president.

With just a week until the 2024 Election Day, Harris is leading in Arizona 48 percent to Trump’s 47 percent.

But the numbers are exactly switched between the two candidates in left-leaning Nevada, according to the latest CNN/SSRS poll.

The poll’s margin of error is 4.6 percentage points, meaning there is still no clear leader in the two west coast swing states. The remaining of the seven battleground states are on the East Coast and in the Midwest: Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Arizona has 11 Electoral College votes and Nevada has six. Both states voted Democrat in 2020, but Arizona was red in the 2016 election.

Likely Hispanic voters in Nevada are split between the two candidates (Harris 48 percent and Trump 47 percent).

In 2020, President Joe Biden was leading by double digits and up to 26 points in some polls.

Speaking at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump announced a new compensation fund for victims of crime.

Today, I’m announcing, for the fist time under my administration, we will be seizing the assets of the criminal gangs and drug cartels and we will use those assets to create a compensation fund to provide restitution for the victms of migrant crime, and the government will help in the restitution.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

A now-viral video posted on social media shows a dashcam recording a car coming to a stop because a blue bin was lying in the middle of the road.

Later the video shows that the blue bin that was left in the street was a box full of ballots.

Causing quite a stir on social media, the video prompted many to scrutinize the local authorities in charge of safely retrieving and counting ballots.

Responding to the video on Tuesday, The Miami-Dade County Elections Department confirmed that the video was authentic, the bin found in the middle of the road was indeed a box of uncounted ballots and that despite the mishap all votes were accounted for.

‘The incident that occurred was due to human error,’ the statement began. ‘The worker forgot to lock the back of the truck and as they drove off, one sealed bin and one sealed bag fell out, containing already noted ballots from early voting.’

Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, is backing Kamala Harris and even canvassing for her in a battleground state.

Bush campaigned over the weekend in battleground Pennsylvania, one of the most closely contested states and the most likely in many computer models to determine the winner.

‘It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend, she told People. ‘I’m hopeful they’ll move our country forward and protect women’s rights,’ added Bush, 42.

It was a low key gesture, but nevertheless made her the latest person identified with the pre-Trump Republican Party to throw her support to the Democratic candidate.

Trump used his statement to the press to announce we he called a new plan to seize assets from criminal gangs.

‘So today, I’m announcing that for the first time under my administration, we will be seizing the assets of the criminal gangs and drug cartels,’ Trump said, without providing details.

It came after he accused rival Kamala Harris of ‘aiding and abetting the cartels, allowing vast quantities of deadly drugs to pour unchecked into our country.’ He brought people to the stage whose family members were victims of crime.

Trump brought up Aurora, Colorado and Springfield Ohio – where his campaign has amplified debunked claims that migrants are eating pets – and said ‘they dropped 32,000 illegal aliens.’ He was referencing Haitian migrants who hold temporary protected status and moved to the area.

Police in Washington and Oregon are searching for a dark-colored sedan, the driver of which they believe is responsible for setting fires at ballot drop boxes in what appears to be a serious case of attempted election interference.

Police confirmed that the two fire incidents in Portland and Vancouver are connected and are also linked to a separate ballot box fire in Vancouver on October 8.

The FBI said in a statement to DailyMail.com:

The FBI is coordinating with federal, state, and local partners to actively investigate the two incidents in Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, in the early morning hours of Monday, October 28th to determine who is responsible.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the nearest FBI office, provide information through tips.fbi.gov or call 1-800-CALL-FBI (800-225-5324).

Donald Trump begins his statement to the press at Mar-a-Lago by pointing to election problems in Pennsylvania.

‘It’s going very well. There are some bad spots in Pennsylvania where some serious things have been caught,’ Trump said in what his camp billed as a statement to the press from his Florida club.

He was referencing criminal investigation in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where election officials flagged 2,500 voter registration forms for potential fraud.

Republican officials called it an organized effort but also said it had been contained.

Trump in 2020 repeatedly pointed to irregularities and claimed fraud as part of his effort to overturn the election results. The effort included repeated statements about fraud risks before the election.

Opinion polls say the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump comes down to a coin flip.

But there’s a presidential prediction tool that’s relatively new to the public at large and which tells a very different story about the 2024 race — odds posted to online wagering markets.

Those give the former Republican president a commanding 66 percent shot at winning on November 5, way ahead of his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, at just 34 percent.

Confused? Don’t be, says Tarek Mansour, CEO of Kalshi, America’s first legal online election prediction wagering platform, which has taken in more than $85 million in bets tied to the 2024 race.

‘We should definitely trust the [wagering] markets,’ Mansour told DailyMail.com this week.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance will join famous podcaster Joe Rogan on his show this week.

The sit-down is scheduled for Wednesday, according to an individual with knowledge of the arrangements, DailyMail.com learned.

These sources told the outlet the interview is expected to begin at 9 am local time.

Vance’s tentative appearance on the program comes just after Rogan said that his offer to Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is still on the table should she choose to accept.

‘They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour,’ Rogan wrote on X Monday regarding the Harris campaign’s offer to sit for the podcast.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Republican lawmakers are warning that Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz is compromised after DailyMail.com exclusively uncovered he had a fling with a Chinese official’s daughter decades ago.

Walz’s tryst with Jenna Wang, the daughter of a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, has lawmakers worried with seven days to the election.

The House Oversight Committee has been investigating Tim Walz for his ties to China and CCP entities since August.

After the relationship that began in 1989 was exposed, the committee’s chairman exclusively told DailyMail.com that Walz has been compromised by China.

‘Governor Tim Walz’s documented relationships with Chinese Communist Party affiliated entities and officials bears hallmarks of a CCP infiltration and influence campaign,’ Comer said.

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Wisconsin:

The U.S. Postal Service is encouraging any voters who plan to vote by mail to do so as soon as possible, and that if a ballot is due on Election Day, it is recommended voters mail them by today, Tuesday, October 29.

It said it anticipates an uptick of ballots in the mail in the coming days.

The postal service said it will continue to use ‘extraordinary measures’ which started October 21 to accelerate the deliever of ballots in the final week after today, but this is the recommended date for mailing.

It noted that 99 percent of ballots mailed from voters to election officials were delivered within a week in 2020 and nearly 98 percent were delivered within three days.

On average, the Postal Service is able to deliver a ballot from election officials to voters in just over two days and from voters to election officials in 1.6 days.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Kamala Harris will make her closing argument before a crowd of 50,000 people on the National Mall on Tuesday night, standing with the White House in sight while she contrasts her vision for American with Republican rival Donald Trump’s.

‘You’re going to hear her really speak to middle class families and what they’re worried about, and what she’s going to do about it. And she is going to very much focus this speech on them, on the American people, unlike what we hear from Donald Trump, which is his focus on himself, and we know that that is a pretty stark contrast. We are not at this location by accident,’ campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told reporters on a call previewing Harris’ speech.

Dillon said the location was picked specifically to contrast with Trump’s speech on January 6th, 2021, when he encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol, a move that resulted in a failed attempt to over throw the 2020 election results.

It´s a ‘stark visualization of probably the most infamous example of Donald Trump and how he´s used his power for bad,’ she said.

Harris’ campaign staff doubled down on Harris’ experience as a prosecutor in describing her remarks.

Cedric Richmond said over the past three months Harris has given her opening statement and laid out the facts for voters.

‘She´ll make her closing argument directly to the American people – or the jury – and that´s who´s going to decide the outcome of this election,’ he said. ‘And that´s how it should be.’

‘She’s a prosecutor, right? She’s already made her case, she’s presented the evidence, she’s offering up the summation tonight, and she has full faith and wisdom of the jury, and this is an opportunity for her to directly make that case in prime time,’ said her campaign spokesman Michael Tyler.

Originally the permit for the event was for 9,000. The Harris campaign has upped it to 40,000 but Washington D.C. police say they expect 50,000 people to attend.

Ahead of the speech, Harris is doing five interviews Tuesday, including one with a Spanish-language radio in Pennsylvania aimed at Latino voters, and with local outlets in in Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent in Philadelphia

Kamala Harris had so many celebrities ready to do events for her in the final days of her presidential campaign that many are just sitting in the audience, cheering her on.

At a rally in Philadelphia on Thursday, Mark Ruffalo, John Legend, and Don Cheadle didn’t get speaking slots but they did get selfies backstage with the Democratic nominee.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Robert DeNiro kicked off a canvassing event on Saturday with the Philadelphia mayor, rally volunteers and thanking them.

The stars are shining bright for Kamala Harris. But will it make any difference on Election Day?

‘It’s too hard to tell,’ Mark Harvey, the author of Celebrity Influence: Politics, Persuasion, and Issue-Based Advocacy, told DailyMail.com.

‘If you ask most people what’s going to influence their vote, it’s going to be how much are my gas prices and what’s the economy like,’ he noted.

However, he added, at this point in the election, campaigns are ‘really sort of throwing bunch of stuff at the wall’ to see what sticks.

Donald Trump has a few bold-faced names in his corner: Elon Musk, Danica Patrick, Dennis Quaid, and Kid Rock.

Donald Trump is getting ready to address the media from his Mar-a-Lago.

His comments offer a chance to get a jump on Kamala Harris’ event in at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. – the same location where he addressed fans on January 6.

The ballroom is packed with Trump supporters, with some decked out in red, white, and blue clothing.

Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

Donald Trump has denied hearing comedian Tony Hinchliffe’s controversial comments calling Puerto Rico an ‘floating island of garbage’ at his Madison Square Garden rally.

‘I don’t know him, someone put him up there. I don’t know who he is,’ Trump told ABC when asked the explosive comments, which drew denunciations from the Kamala Harris campaign and warnings it could hurt him with Puerto Rican voters in the U.S.

Trump also said he didn’t hear the comments – which exploded across the Internet and were broadcast in real time.

His claims not to have heard the incendiary joke came even as his campaign sent spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Fox News where she said the joke was ‘in poor taste’ and that it ‘does not reflect the views of President Trump.’

It has long been clear to any MAGA fan that Donald Trump curses a heck of a lot, but a New York Times analysis has finally quantified it.

The former president has cursed in public ‘at least 1,787 times’ this year, the paper found. It’s an increase of 69 percent – a pretty darned significant spike – in what some call ‘dishinibation’ associated with aging. The total includes an increased use of the f-word and ‘s***’ which have been creeping into Trump’s remarks, often delighting rally crowds.

That isn’t counting the time last month when Trump used polite language to discuss golf legend Arnold Palmer’s manhood at a rally. There were a total of 43 curses by speakers at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally.

Kamala Harris has used swear words just 10 times in public this year, most often ‘damn’ or ‘hell.’ President Biden regularly curses in speeches – 450 times this year, but all but two were ‘damn’ or ‘hell.’ His most notable swear word came as vice president when he called Obamacare a ‘big f***ing deal.’

Kamala Harris’ chances of winning the election have reached a new low in the betting markets.

The Democratic nominee has dropped below 40 percent in all six betting markets monitored by Real Clear Politics.

The markets include Polymarket and BetOnline.

Ahead of the 2024 Presidential election, see how Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are really faring among voters with DailyMail.com’s brilliant poll tracker.

Our interactive graphs give invaluable insight into how pollsters are predicting the outcome of the race.

Polls in the last week have seen momentum swing to Trump, but the race is still on a knife-edge and is set to be one of the closest in history.

The winner will ultimately decided in the seven swing states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Nevada and Arizona.

The margins in each of the battleground are razor thin, and the next president could be decided by just a few thousand votes.

All of the data used in our analysis comes from Harris versus Trump polls collated by DailyMail.com’s pollsters J.L. Partners and FiveThirtyEight.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Kamala Harris has pulled ahead by just one percentage point with one week until the 2024 Election Day.

A new NBC News poll released on Tuesday has the vice president at 48.6 percent compared to Donald Trump’s 47.5 percent in the national race.

But the same polling in the 2016 and 2020 races had the Democratic candidates much further ahead of the former president with Joe Biden having a more than seven point lead in the last election and Hillary Clinton with a 4.6 percent advantage in her matchup with Trump.

The small margin shows just how closely spilt the country is with just seven days until the presidential election.

In the final week of this ‘dead heat’ presidential election, I am reminded of Ronald Reagan’s landslide 1980 victory.

Then as now, President Jimmy Carter was polling neck-and-neck with his Republican challenger.

A Gallup poll showed Carter up one percentage point nationally in late October. Only four days before the vote, a CBS News/New York Times survey showed the race to be just as close.

Then the bottom dropped out of Carter’s campaign – and Reagan won by nearly 10 points in the popular vote, and a staggering 489 to 49 in the Electoral College.

I was a young campaign analyst at the time, but I’d later join Reagan’s vaunted White House political strategy team and we analyzed what drove the landslide.

We discovered thousands of previously overlooked Americans, living in rural and suburban communities — folks who worked 40-hour weeks, lifted the freight, paid the bills and ran the small businesses.

Their voices weren’t regularly heard in the halls of power and didn’t necessarily vote in every election.

They came to be known as ‘The Silent Majority’.

Former first lady Melania Trump spoke to a live audience at Fox and Friends on Tuesday morning with seven days until the election.

She spoke about her book ‘Melania’ and revealed her reaction to critics comparing her husband to Adolf Hitler.

Taking questions from the audience, she also revealed details of where she will be spending election night and her vision for a second term.

Kamala Harris’ rally in Michigan was left in a moment of awkward silence Monday after an unexpected request from the Democratic nominee.

The vice president was making her final stop in Ann Arbor with a packed rally in the college town along with her running mate Tim Walz and singer Maggie Rogers.

At one point in her speech, the crowd began to rhythmically chant her name – ‘Ka-ma-la, Ka-ma-la, Ka-ma-la’ – when Harris made a feeble attempt to turn the tables.

‘Now I want each of you to shout your own name. Do that,’ Harris said with a laugh. ‘Because it’s about all of us.’

Some people began to murmur but the vast majority of people in the crowd went silent in confusion, lowering signs and looking around.

The vice president recovered quickly and continued her speech: ‘I have fought my whole career to put the people first.’

Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon has been released from prison today after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

Bannon, who is Trump’s former chief strategist, left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, this morning and was greeted by his daughter Maureen, according to The National Pulse.

Maureen confirmed her father’s release re-posting the National Pulse report on social media platform X.

He is set to hold a news conference later in the day in Manhattan and is also expected to resume his podcast today.

The radio host and political agitator was Trump’s campaign manager in the final stages of the 2016 election, having risen from his role at Breitbart to become one of the most influential right-wing voices.

Bannon joined Trump in the White House but fell out with him in spectacular fashion and turned on Trump, but was ultimately pardoned by the former president on the eve of his departure from the White House for loyally insisting that the election was stolen.

Joe Rogan has revealed that Kamala Harris agreed to appear on his podcast, but he refused the conditions suggested by her team.

Rogan, who recently had a three-hour sit down with Republican nominee Donald Trump, says the Harris campaign offered for him to interview the Vice President on Tuesday, but would require him to ‘travel to her’ and ‘only wanted to do an hour’.

‘I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin,’ he revealed Monday night on X. ‘My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen.’

Liberals have urged Harris to have a sit down with Rogan after it emerged that Trump’s interview with the podcaster amassed a staggering 17million YouTube views in less than 24 hours.

By comparison, Harris’ appearance on the Call her Daddy podcast with Alex Cooper has clocked just 685,000 views in the two weeks since it went live.

After the dramatic shake up at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket, Democrats are growing more confident in their ability to hold the White House and Senate and flip the House with Kamala Harris as their presidential nominee.

But two congressional districts could help decide the country’s fate not just at the top of the ticket come November but also both chambers of Congress: Pennsylvania’s eighth congressional district and Nebraska’s second congressional district.

The case for watching these two districts to know where the election is headed was first made by former New York Congressman and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Steve Israel.

He wrote in June ‘when the dust settles, the only information you will need in order to conclude who won the 2024 election will be the results of Pennsylvania’s 8th and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District. For the next five months, they are the center of the political universe.’

While the top of the Democratic presidential ticket has changed, the importance of both districts have not.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Voters in Michigan are leaning Donald Trump’s way with just one week until Election Day.

Among 1,000 likely voters in the critical swing state, 49 percent say they would vote for Trump compared to the 48.3 percent who would cast their ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris.

It’s also the first time that Trump has pulled ahead of Harris since July, when she took President Joe Biden’s place atop the Democratic presidential ticket.

Regardless of who they support or are voting for, the poll respondents were asked who they expect to win on November 5.

Fifty percent say they think Harris will win and 49 percent say they think the former president will earn another term.

Former President Trump on Monday denied being a Nazi, a day after holding a controversial Madison Square Garden rally where speakers used crude and racist language.

Even before the event, critics including Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz, compared it with a 1939 rally by Nazi sympathizers at the same venue.

‘I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi,’ Trump told thousands of supporters at Georgia Tech.

‘Now the way they talk is so disgusting and just horrible.’

Trump spent the day in the crucial swing state of Georgia a day after entertaining supporters in New York.

He was prayed over by faith leaders in the state in an emotional moment earlier in the day before rallying up a raucous MAGA crowd.

Republicans have an early lead over Democrats in early voting in the battleground state of Nevada.

Around 700,000 people – half the state’s expected voters – have already cast their ballots.

Registered Republicans have an advantage of 40,000, or 5,7 percent, over registered Democrats.

Jon Ralston, editor of the Nevada Independent, said:

This is a unicorn year. We have never seen this. Still a lot of time but Republicans have reason for confidence with this unprecedented turnout pattern.