Alert – 2024 presidential election live updates: Shock new Trump-Harris presidential poll reveals a stunning change among young voters

A new poll out Tuesday showed a widening gap among young voters choosing between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump.

Harris leads Trump by 31 points among people aged 18-29 who are likely to vote in the presidential election, according to the poll by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Harvard Kennedy School.

That’s a dramatic switch from Harvard’s survey from this spring, which had President Biden leading Trump by just 13 points among likely youth voters. That was alarming news for Democrats at the time, who generally do better among young voters, and likely reflected the age of the then-Democratic candidate for president, Biden, 81.

After Biden dropped out of the race in July to be replaced by the much younger Harris, 59, things changed dramatically for the race and that is reflected in the young voter results.

‘This poll reveals a significant shift in the overall vibe and preferences of young Americans as the campaign heads into the final stretch,’ longtime IOP polling director John Della Volpe told Fox News. ‘Vice President Harris has strengthened the Democratic position among young voters, leading Trump on key issues and personal qualities.’

The poll also finds:

• A significant enthusiasm gap between young Democrats and Republicans, with 74% of young Democrats saying they will ‘definitely’ vote, compared to 60% of young Republicans.
• A widening gender gap, nearly doubling from 17 points in the Spring poll to 30 points now, with Harris leading 70% to 23% among likely female voters.
• Harris outperformed Trump on key personal qualities and issues, with substantial leads in empathy (+33), relatability (+24), honesty (+22), climate change (+32), abortion (+31), health care (+26), and gun violence prevention (+25) among all young adults.

Both candidates will spend the majority of the remaining 41 days before Election Day targeting crucial swing states.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi reprimanded a CNN host in a testy exchange for mentioning recent comments about Vice President Kamala Harris’s cognitive ability.

The hot-tempered response from the San Francisco Democrat came after CNN Host Jake Tapper asked her about recent comments by former President Donald Trump.

‘Donald Trump’s saying that Kamala Harris has bigger cognitive problems than Joe Biden,’ Tapper began as he appeared poised to finish his question.

Then Pelosi abruptly cuts in: ‘Why would you even cover that?’

Former governor and presidential candidate Nikki Haley and others slammed GOP Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno over controversial comments he made about women over 50 and abortion.

Video taken from a town hall in Warren County on Friday shows the Republican hopeful in the tight Senate race talking about suburban women being single issue voters.

‘You know the left has a lot of single issue voters. Sadly, by the way, there’s a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like “listen, abortion’s it. If I can’t have an abortion in this country whenever I want, I will vote for anybody else,”‘ Moreno said.

‘Ok, a little crazy by the way, but especially for women that are like past 50 – I’m thinking to myself “I don’t think that’s an issue for you,”‘ he continued.

The 57-year-old is now facing backlash for the remarks including from some prominent Republicans.

‘Are you trying to lose the election? Asking for a friend. #Tonedeaf #DonLemonVibes,’ Haley wrote on X.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent in New York

President Joe Biden touted his and Kamala Harris’ environmental record when he spoke to the Bloomberg Global Business Forum.

Biden may have been wooing Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former New York mayor whose foundation funded the meeting. Bloomberg has not endorsed in the 2024 presidential race yet.

The president didn’t mention Republican Donald Trump by name but he pointed out that his administration immediately rejoined the Paris Climate Accords ‘after my predecessor walked away.’

He also pointed out that he got billions in clean energy in the Inflation Reduction Act.

‘This is a new formula, creating jobs, reducing pollution, cleaning up our water and air, improving our quality of life,’ he said.

And Biden slammed Trump: ‘He moved the world backwards. He’s in denial of climate change. He condemned our future generations to more dangerous world. And, by the way, windmills don’t cause cancer.’

The room applauded the president.

Bloomberg introduced Biden. Spotted by reporters after the president spoke, Bloomberg didn’t acknowledge a question on who he was endorsing in the presidential race.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent in New York City

President Joe Biden relayed a cute story about decorating the Oval Office when he addressed the Bloomberg Global Business Forum.

He noted that after he was inaugurated on January 2o, 2021, he didn’t realize that he couldn’t go into the Oval Office  until after 4 pm.

‘The incoming president cannot go into the Oval Office until after four o’clock, and the outgoing president has to be gone by 10. Only he never showed up,’ Biden said as the crowd laughed.

So he asked his brother Jim to oversee its decoration, tasking him with picking the desk and paintings.

He said his only request was he wanted busts of Martin Luther King and John Kennedy – his personal heroes.

He left the rest to his brother.

‘My brother’s showing me, and I look up and there’s this giant portrait of Franklin Roosevelt,’ he said.

He noted he admired Roosevelt but wanted to know why that portrait was picked. He said he was told: ‘No one’s inherited an economy in more disarray since Franklin Roosevelt.’

The audience laughed and Biden added there was also a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the wall because ‘the country has never been as a divided since the Civil War.’

Before Biden addressed the group, who was meeting in an ornate room at the Plaza Hotel, actress Jane Fonda spoke.

She introduced Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor whose foundation funded the meeting.

‘It is someone who needs no introduction, not his work, but he’s also someone who named his company, his foundation, his memoir, after himself,‘ she said.

She praised Bloomberg for taking on the coal industry and the ‘f***ing fossil fuel’ industry.

And when Bloomberg came out, she patted his rear end.

‘Thanks for that nice introduction,’ Bloomberg told her.

‘I promise you this, the next memoir that I write is going to be about you,’ he noted.

The U.S. will send Ukraine medium-range cluster bombs and an array of rockets, artillery and armored vehicles in a military aid package totaling about $375 million, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Officials expect an announcement on Wednesday, as global leaders meet at the U.N. General Assembly, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy uses his appearance there to shore up support.

The leader of the war-torn nation is also hoping to persuade the U.S. to allow his troops to use long-range weapons to strike deeper into Russia.

The following day, Zelenskyy meets with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington.

The aid includes air-to-ground bombs, which have cluster munitions and can be fired by Ukraine’s fighter jets, as well as munitions for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), Javelin and other anti-armor systems, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, bridging systems and other vehicles and military equipment, according to officials.

The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the aid has not yet been publicly announced.

The latest package of weapons, provided through presidential drawdown authority, is one of the largest approved recently and will take stocks from Pentagon shelves to deliver the weapons more quickly to Ukraine.

(with reporting from the Associated Press)

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was held in contempt of Congress by the House Foreign Affairs Committee for skirting a public hearing on the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

He is the third Biden administration official to be formally reprimanded by Congress.

In June, Attorney General Merrick Garland was held in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over Joe Biden audio tapes where he appeared ‘elderly.’ The Justice Department refused to prosecute its leader, ending the proceedings.

And earlier this year, the House approved two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the southern border crisis, which the Senate dismissed.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has sought to bring in the chief diplomat following his handling of the military and civilian disaster killing 13 U.S. troops and hundreds of Afghans that has been compared to the fall of Saigon during the Vietnam war.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is relieved that there is not a Senate race in North Carolina this election cycle.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is the Republican candidate for governor in the state – and he is facing a slew of scandal after a report revealed he made salacious and racist comments on a pornographic forum.

“Would you recommend that Republicans abandon the North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson over his lewd and graphic posts on a porn website?” CNN reporter Manu Raju asked Sen. McConnell.

The Kentucky Republican replied:

I’m happy that there’s not a Senate race in North Carolina.

A lot of talk has been swirling with pressure for Robinson to drop out of his race against Democrat Josh Stein. But the Lt. Gov. insists the reports are not true and he will continue his bid for the Governor’s Mansion.

North Carolina is one of the most important states in the 2024 race and will help determine the results in November along with six other swing states.

A CNN report last week claims that Robinson called himself a ‘black Nazi’ and ‘perv,’ among other offensive comments, on porn site Nude Africa.

SBA Pro-Life America is getting involved in a growing controversy in Georgia.

At least two women have died in the state due to the use of abortion drugs without adequate emergency care, the group explains.

But presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has highlighted the harrowing stories on the campaign trail, blaming limited access to abortion in the GOP-led state.

Now the group is putting a huge chunk of money behind ads to explain the situation to Georgians.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of SBA Pro-Life America:

Democrats led by Kamala Harris are lying about pro-life laws and women are dying. Amber Thurman and Candi Miller died after they suffered complications from dangerous abortion drugs and did not receive appropriate, completely legal emergency care. Georgia’s law, like pro-life laws in every other state, allows emergency care, miscarriage care and treatment for ectopic pregnancy.

The laws do not penalize women who have abortions and they use plain, commonly accepted legal language. There would be no confusion if abortion advocates were not spreading confusion. Amber, Candi and their babies should be alive today. Democrats are putting countless lives at risk and we will relentlessly call them out.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters at a press conference Tuesday he will ‘absolutely’ certify the 2024 election results.

The question seemed centered on the issue of certifying the 2020 presidential election, which notably was interrupted by the January 6 Capitol Riot.

However, Johnson did add a cheeky caveat to his answer.

He said he would certify the results ‘If we have a free, fair and safe election.’

‘We’re going to follow the Constitution,’ he continued, apparently leaving the door open to not certifying the results should his conditions not be met.

Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald Trump in a series of national. polls released on Tuesday but by now much varies.

According to the latest national poll by Reuters/Ipsos, the Democratic presidential nominee has 47 percent to the Republican nominee’s 40 percent. The poll conducted September 21 to 23 shows a slightly wider gap than the one conducted earlier this month.

The Reuters poll shows signs that Harris has blunted some of Trump’s advantage when it comes to the economy.

The poll found 43 percent believe Trump has a better approach to the ‘economy, unemployment and jobs’ compared to Harris’ 41 percent. That’s a smaller lead than the three point advantage he had on the issue last month and the eleven point gap seen in late July right after Harris launched her campaign.

Meanwhile, another poll out Tuesday shows a much closer race between Harris and Trump.

The CNN poll of likely voters nationwide has Harris at 48 percent while Trump has 47 percent, a statistical tie.

They also appear even with Independent voters. 45 percent said they backed Harris while 41 percent backed Trump.

The gender gap was more pronounced among Independents. 51 percent of Independent women support Harris while 36 percent back Trump. Among Independent men, 47 percent support Trump while 40 percent back Harris.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent in New York

President Joe Biden snuggled close to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as they attended a summit on drug threats on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting.

Each leader addressed the Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drug Threats to speak about the addiction problem in their country.

The prime minister of Belgium and the president of the Dominican Republic also spoke.

During the other leaders’ addresses, Biden and Meloni sat next to each other in the front row, heads close together.

The two first formed a flirty relationship this summer when Biden was in Italy for a meeting of the G7 leaders.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin will not be endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

The development comes after Harris endorsed the idea of removing the Senate’s filibuster to pass pro-abortion laws.

‘Shame on her,’ Manchin said. ‘She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy. It’s the only thing that keeps us talking and working together. If she gets rid of that, then this would be the House on steroids.’

‘I think that basically can destroy our country and my country is more important to me than any one person or any one person’s ideology … I think it’s the most horrible thing.’

Notably, Manchin is not running for reelection and is retiring at the end of this Congress.

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

Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen announced he will not call a special session to change the state’s electoral vote process to a winner-takes-all one.

Nebraska was one of two states in the U.S. that allocates electoral votes proportionally, so Democrats could pick up one electoral vote as President Biden did in 2020 from the state’s second congressional district depending on the election results.

Donald Trump’s allies had been pushing for the state to change how it allocates electoral votes, but it does not have the necessary support in the state legislature.

‘My team and I have worked relentlessly to secure a filibuster-proof 33-vote majority to get winner-take-all passed before the November election. Given everything at stake for Nebraska and our country, we have left every inch on the field to get this done,’ Pillen said in a statement.

‘Unfortunately, we could not persuade 33 state senators. Senator Mike McDonnell of Omaha has confirmed he is unwilling to vote for winner-take-all before the 2024 election. That is profoundly disappointing to me and the many others who have worked so earnestly to ensure all Nebraskans’ votes are sought after equally this election. Based on the lack of 33 votes, I have no plans to call a special session on this issue prior to the 2024 election,’ he added.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that he and former President Donald Trump are on the same page regarding passing a critical funding bill this month.

Johnson, at the direction of Trump, attempted to pass the funding bill last week with a conservative law attached to further bolster securities preventing illegal immigrants from voting in elections.

That bill, called the SAVE Act, was not a well-received addition to the government funding bill which must be signed into law before funding runs out on October 1.

The vote failed with several Republicans voting against the Trump and Johnson plan.

Now, the speaker has said the plan is to pass the government funding bill without the SAVE Act. The measure likely will receive both Republican and Democrat support and kick the government funding deadline until late December.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Former president Donald Trump released a scathing post on his Truth Social app about Vice President Kamala Harris’s upcoming trip to the U.S.-Mexico border.

The VP is expected to make the visit to the barrier during her visit to Arizona on Friday, CNN first reported.

‘When Kamala is seen at the Border on Friday, she will pass Hundreds of Miles of Wall that was built by TRUMP, and it is Wall that WORKS!’ the ex-president wrote Tuesday.

‘When she speaks, be advised that this woman has allowed more than 21 million people into our Country, totally unvetted, and from places unknown.’

‘They are now creating criminal havoc all throughout the Country. Every State is a Border State! When she speaks, I hope everybody remembers that she has caused our cities, towns, and Country itself, tremendous damage, and only I can fix it!’

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

American businessman Mark Cuban joined a call for the Harris campaign on Tuesday where he blasted former President Donald Trump for his economic policy including the ex-president threatening the company John Deere with 200 percent tariffs.

Trump made the threat on Monday afternoon during a roundtable with farmers as it plans to move some production to Mexico.

‘The worst part of it, if you put 200 percent tariffs on John Deere for moving, a decision that they feel is right for their business, and you put a ten or twenty percent crazy across the board tariff on Chinese imports, the net result is that you’ve made it cheaper for Chinese manufacturers to complete with John Deere,’ Cuban said.

‘You literally face the destruction of one of the most historied companies in the United States of America,’ he added. He called the move ‘ridiculously bad and destructive.’

He also blasted the ‘insanity’ of across-the-board tariffs as inflationary and slammed the ex-president for his ‘socialist and communistic tendencies.’

‘I know t sounds funny, a little bit out of whack, but it’s true,’ Cuban said. ‘These things he takes off the top of his head, he just makes up in real time, and then everybody around him tries to justify it,’ Cuban said.

The billionaire businessman has been going to bat for the vice president publicly as the race for the White House heats up.

‘When it comes to Donald Trump’s policies compared to the vice president’s, everybody else has to try to explain the policies for him, he can never explain them for himself,’ Cuban said. ‘And that’s the feeling of his entire campaign,’ Cuban said.

‘Whereas, with the vice president, she may not give the full list that everybody wants, but everything that she proposes and everything that she puts into the public space is completely well thought out,’ he argued.

Trump may have to repeal the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) he signed while in office to carry out his tariff plans.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent in Savannah, Georgia

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene warmed up the crowd Tuesday morning ahead of former President Donald Trump’s economic-themed address in Savannah, Georgia.

Greene sported a red dress and cowboy boots and got much louder cheers than other Georgia Republicans, including former Sen. David Perdue, whose 2021 election loss helped tilt the Senate to the Democrats.

The congresswoman told the audience that ‘November 5 is a job interview.’

‘Are we going to hire a woman who has received a government paycheck her entire life – abusing government power?’ Greene asked. ‘Or are we going to hire a successful businessman?’ she said to cheers.

‘The American people are not stupid but the media thinks you are,’ she continued. ‘They want to convince you that Donald Trump is all these nasty things that they have been calling him. Well, all of those nasty names and all of that talk nearly got him assassinated – twice.’

She then mocked Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, and that ‘communist governor from Minnesota,’ a reference to Democratic vice presidential hopeful, Gov. Tim Walz.

Trump appeared to fill the Johnny Mercer Theatre Civic Center – a smaller venue than where he usually holds rallies – in downtown Savannah, one of the bluer parts of Georgia, which helped President Joe Biden win the White House in 2020.

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

Vice President Kamala Harris said she supports ending the filibuster in the Senate to pass abortion rights protections as legislation to protect abortion access federally has been blocked from moving forward since the overturning of Roe v Wade.

The Democratic presidential nominee forcefully called for the change during an interview aired Tuesday on Wisconsin Public Radio.

‘I’ve been very clear, I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe, and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do,’ Harris said.

Democrats have been trying to pass legislation restoring the abortion protections provided in Roe v Wade since the landmark decision was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022.

However, Democrats need 60 votes to overcome the filibuster in the Senate but only hold a 51 seat majority.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Republicans are outraged at the Biden-Harris administration for ignoring an escalating security crisis at the southern border after rocket-propelled grenades and explosives were found near Arizona.

A bombshell report indicated that at least 4 rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and 8 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were discovered in Mexico close to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Huge amounts of ammunition were also found in the ‘scout site’ that was around 700 feet from the border wall in Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, according to an internal memo first reported by NewsNation.

Now, Republicans are once again blaming the White House for the ‘dangerous’ conditions at the barrier and the ‘drastic escalation’ in deadly weaponry discovered at the migrant crossing area.

‘Under President Biden and his ‘border czar,’ Vice President Harris, the cartels have raked in profits like never before,’ House Homeland Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., told DailyMail.com in an exclusive statement.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said documents and interviews related to the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump have been acquired by congressional investigators.

He said thousands of pages of documents and dozens of interviews have been obtained ahead of a Thursday hearing on the attempt at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course the Trump International.

New polling shows Vice President Kamala Harris leads on foreign policy nationally, but when it comes to the critical battleground states that will decide the election, former President Donald Trump has an edge.

In the new poll by the Institute for Global Affairs, 53 percent of Americans nationally said the Democratic presidential nominee is more likely to pursue foreign policy that benefits people like them to Trump’s 47 percent.

52 percent also said she would be a strong leader who advance America’s interests internationally compared to Trump’s 48 percent.

But when the poll zeroed in on swing states, the results were nearly reversed.

In the battleground states, 53 percent of Americans said the Republican presidential nominee is more likely to pursue a foreign policy that benefits people like them to Harris’ 47 percent.

And 54 percent also said he would be a strong leader who advance America’s interests internationally compared to Harris’ 46 percent.

Nationally, Americans also viewed Harris as more likely to boost the U.S.’ international reputation 53 percent over Trump’s 47 percent. In swing states, Trump led on this 51 percent to 49 percent.

President Joe Biden laid out the need for greater peace and stability in the Middle East as it teeters on the brink of total war.

He urged the United Nations not to forget the horrors of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack or the suffering of Palestinian civilians.

His speech came as Israel kept pounding Lebanon with airstrikes that have killed more than 500 people, according to the country’s health ministry.

Biden called for a ceasefire in Gaza, even though a deal over the release of hostages may be out of reach before the end of his presidency.

He also reiterated his belief that a two-state solution is needed for Israel.

‘They didn’t ask for this war,’ Biden said of the civilians in Gaza

President Joe Biden defended the withdrawal from Afghanistan in his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly.

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief said the decision to pull troops was a ‘hard decision’, but the ‘right one’.

He admitted that the evacuation ended in tragedy, and that he thinks about the 13 American service members killed at Kabul International Airport ‘every day’.

It was a hard decision. But the right decision. Four American presidents had to face that decision. But I was determined not to leave it to a fifth.

A district campaign office in Tempe, Arizona, was targeted by gunfire according to NBC 12 News.

The incident is being investigated as a ‘property crime,’ according to local police and no one was injured.

Sean McEnerney, coordinated campaign manager for the Harris campaign in Arizona, told the outlet:

Overnight, several shots were fired into our Tempe Democratic Party coordinated campaign office.

We are grateful to Tempe Police for coming quickly to the scene and are fortunate no one was present or injured.

Kamala Harris was frequently absent for California Medical Assistance Commission meetings, even though she was appointed to the position by her boyfriend at the time and then-Assembly Speaker Willie Brown.

Harris and Brown dated for about a year when she was a 29 year old lawyer for the Alameda District Attorney's office and he was the powerful speaker who ran for mayor of San Francisco at the age of 60.

Brown appointed Harris to the CMAC position in 1994, drawing some criticism for impropriety despite Brown’s willingness to publicly flaunt accusations of political patronage.

Harris had already served six months on the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, a job that paid $97,088 annually, but resigned to take the new position with CMAC.

It’s unclear why Harris missed so many meetings, as she took leave from her job as the Alameda County District Attorney’s office according to the Los Angeles Times.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

A man from Sandpoint, Idaho was charged in federal court with threatening to kill Donald Trump.

In at least nine calls made to Trump’s Florida residence at his Mar-a-Lago club, Warren Jones Crazybull, 64, said he was going to kill the former president.

The calls were made on July 31 – just weeks after the assassination attempt on Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13 where he was shot in the right ear.

In one call, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit first reported on Monday, Crazybull threatened to ‘find Trump’ and said he was ‘coming down to Bedminster tomorrow,’ which is the town where Trump National Golf Club is located in New Jersey.

‘I am going to down him personally, and kill him,’ he said in the call, according to the Department of Justice complaint.

Crazybull was tracked to Montana and arrested August 1.. He was indicted in Idaho federal court on August 20. A trial is scheduled for October 28.

The suspect pleaded not guilty to the single charge of making threats against a former president.

Vice President Kamala Harris seized a narrow lead in a new Michigan poll, as she seeks to reassemble Joe Biden’s ‘blue wall.’

She leads Trump 48 to 45, according to a new USA Today / Suffolk University poll. That falls within the 4 point margin of error. It comes days after Trump visited the state for a town hall led by his former press secretary Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders.

In an indication of the passions of the race, one respondent told the paper he’d ‘vote for a cockroach-infested hemorrhoid over Donald Trump.’

Harris has held narrow leads in a series of recent polls, and now holds a two-point edge in the realclearpolitics average. But the race is essentially tied in Pennsylvania, which has 19 electoral votes to Michigan’s 15.

New York Republican Congressman Anthony D’Esposito is firing back after being in hot water following bombshell allegations that he had an affair with a woman and then put her on his taxpayer-funded payroll.

The latest political tabloid garbage being peddled by The New York Times is nothing more than a slimy, partisan ‘hit piece’ designed to distract Long Islanders from Democrats’ failing record on border security, the economy, and foreign policy.

My personal life has never interfered with my ability to deliver results for New York’s 4th district, and I have upheld the highest ethical standards of personal conduct.  Voters deserve better than the Times’ gutter politics.

According to the New York Times, the 42-year-old first-term lawmaker was having an affair with Devin Faas. It attributed news of the relationship to four people familiar with it.

Last April, Faas started receiving $2,000 a month for a part-time job in his district office.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Joe Biden will give his last speech as president to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning.

Biden is expected to address the need to end the Middle East conflict and the 17-month-old civil war in Sudan and to highlight U.S. and Western allies’ support for Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine.

But he’ll also lay out what he sees as his foreign policy legacy as president.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters last week that Biden will ‘reaffirm America’s leadership on the world stage’ in New York and will ‘rally global action to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges.’

The president’s speech, however, comes under the shadow of the presidential race. His vice president, Kamala Harris, is expected to keep many of his foreign policy initiatives.

But there are concerns about U.S. support for the war in Ukraine should Donald Trump win.

Biden and Harris will hold separate meetings at the White House on Thursday with Ukrainian President Zelensky.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Kamala Harris is planning to head to the southern border for the first time in her presidential run.

The vice president’s campaign is considering a trip to the Arizona southern border on Friday as Harris continues to face backlash from Republicans for her handling of immigration issues as the ‘border czar.’

Harris has faced repeated criticism for not visiting the border enough as VP and the latest trip could be an effort to shut down those attacks.

Donald Trump still holds strong with voters on the issue of immigration and border security – and Harris’ team is looking to close the gap, two people familiar with the discussions told CNN.

The former president has gone to different areas along the border over the last eight years.

The border is a hot button issue in the 2024 race amid record-high illegal crossings under President Joe Biden and VP Harris leading to other issues like a lack of affordable housing and rising crime.

Many times the issue of immigration ranks second or third on top issues to voters in November’s election.