Alert – Election 2024 live updates: Kamala Harris hit with Donald Trump polling shock after debate – News Alerts

Kamala Harris is trailing Donald Trump by one point in the key swing state of Michigan, according to a poll conducted after the debate.

Multiple pundits and surveys declared the vice president the winner of her Tuesday showdown with Donald Trump.

But an Insider Advantage poll of 800 voters found 49 percent are backing Trump, and 48 percent are backing Harris.

The results are further proof the election could be one of the closest in history.

Follow all the updates with 52 days until the polls open on election day

13:06

New poll shows Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris in key battleground state

When is the Trump and Harris debate and who is favored to win?

A new poll of the crucial swing state of Michigan shows warning signs for Kamala Harris as she looks to secure the so-called Democratic ‘blue wall.’

The InsiderAdvantage poll shows Donald Trump leading by one point in the state.

It has the GOP nomineee at 49 percent and Harris at 48 percent signaling it’s going to be an extremely close race in the must-win state for Democrats on their path to the White House.

The InsiderAdvantage poll was conducted of 800 likely voters September 11 and 12, after the presidential debate.

Michigan has 15 electoral votes up for grabs come November. Trump managed to flip the state red in 2016 but it went for President Biden in 2020 and Democrats have since taken a trifecta in the state.

The Real Clear Politics average has Harris up by less than one point in the state.

18:02

Trump: 'We're a dumping ground for Venezuela because we have stupid people running our country'

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference held at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

17:49

Trump says Haitian migrants have 'destroyed' Springfield, Ohio

Donald Trump said he hoped to be called the ‘border president’ as he launched an attack on how the influx of Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, has ‘destroyed’ residents’ way of life.

The former president said more than 20,000 migrants have descended on the town as he attacked Kamala Harris on the border.

He also said Harris would turn the U.S. into a ‘poor violent third world refugee camp and it already sort of is.’

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on September 13, 2024. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

17:39

Trump lists crimes by migrants under Kamala Harris in San Francisco calls her the 'godmother of sanctuaries cities'

Donald Trump ripped into Kamala Harris’ record on migrant crime in her home state of California.

Kamala was the godmother of sanctuary cities. She was right out there at the forefront. And also, the movement of ‘defunding the police,’ she was there right at the beginning

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak at a press conference at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on September 13, 2024. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

17:38

Trump begins his press conference saying his golf course is 'one of the best anywhere in the world'

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump walks to speak during a news conference held at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Donald Trump said his golf course was one of the ‘best anywhere in the world’ as he addressed the press in California.

The former president spoke at the Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes, with the Pacific Ocean as his backdrop.

This course is one of the best courses anywhere in the world.

It is a major property, as you can imagine. Also, lots of weddings and lots of events. And the ballroom right behind you, people get married literally on a nightly basis.

17:12

Biden slams Trump for spreading false rumor people are eating pets

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Joe Biden criticized Donald Trump for spreading false reports of migrants eating pets, saying it was leading to attacks on the Haitian community.

The ‘Haitian American community is under attack right now,’ Biden said at the White House during an event for Black Excellence.

‘There’s no place in America for this. It has to stop. What he’s doing has to stop,’ he said.

Trump has doubled down on his comments that migrants in Springfield City, Ohio, are eating pets. The false rumor has spread on the internet and lead to threats in the community.

Rob Rue, the mayor of Springfield, Ohio, said that the bomb threat made on Thursday that forced the evacuation of the city hall, two schools, and other buildings in the community was explicitly anti-immigrant and hostile to the city’s Haitian community, following Trump’s stoking of a rightwing conspiracy theory that some residents’ pets are being eaten.

16:33

EXCLUSIVE: Inside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's push to meet Trump and Harris

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pushed to meet Kamala Harris and Donald Trump during his short visit to the United States but their campaign schedules interfered.

The PM is ‘keen to meet both candidates if schedules align in the future,’ a British official told DailyMail.com.

Starmer is eager to sit down with whoever will be President Joe Biden’s successor amid questions about what the special relationship between the two countries will look like after November’s election.

Harris is campaigning in Pennsylvania on Friday when Starmer is scheduled to be at the White House to meet with Biden. Trump is on the West Coast, fundraising in California and then holding a rally in Las Vegas.

Inside British PM Keir Starmer's push to meet Trump and Harris

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pushed to meet Kamala Harris and Donald Trump during his short visit to the United States but their campaign schedules interfered.

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16:24

ABC News denies Kamala Harris received debate questions in advance

ABC News put out a statement denying the MAGA-fueled allegations that Vice President Kamala Harris had a leg up during this week’s presidential debate.

‘Absolutely not,’ an ABC News spokesperson told the Daily Beast. ‘Harris was not given any questions before the debate.’

Former President Donald Trump said on Fox & Friends Wednesday that Harris was ‘awfully familiar’ with the questions being given to her by moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.

Muir and Davis have come under fire for fact-checking Trump in real-time during Tuesday night’s debate in Philadelphia.

ABC denies Kamala Harris knew debate questions in advance

ABC News is denying the extraordinary allegations there was collusion between the presidential debate moderators and Vice President Kamala Harris ' campaign.

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14:51

Donald Trump devotee Laura Loomer sparks MAGA civil war

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign hit some turbulence as the MAGA world sparred over his cozy relationship with right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer.

The 31-year-old firebrand accompanied Trump on his private plane as he as jetted to the presidential debate in Philadelphia and the 9/11 commemoration in New York on Wednesday.

Loomer – known for spewing hate-filled screeds against a wide swath of religious and ethnic groups – has been described as Trump’s ‘security blanket.’

‘I spent a few days with Laura Loomer earlier this year and came away with the impression that she functions as a security blanket for Trump,’ tweeted Washington Post reporter Kara Voght.

‘When campaigning asks him to deny his most based tendencies, Loomer encourages them. And Trump loves that.’

Despite the comfort she provides, an array of Republicans from Marjorie Taylor-Green to Senator Lindsey Graham have denounced Loomer as ‘appalling and extremely racist’.

Republican women round on firebrand Trump devotee Laura Loomer

Some of Trump's closest allies have blamed her for his shaky performance against Kamala Harris and warned that she risks pole-axing his tottering campaign with her incendiary tweets.

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13:58

Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer set for crunch talks at White House

President Joe Biden has signaled a new openness to allowing Ukraine to send long-range missiles into Russia amid a warning from Vladimir Putin such a move would lead to ‘war.’

Biden is expected to discuss the issue with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer when the two men meet at the White House on Friday afternoon.

American officials told CNN that they did not expect an immediate sign off from Biden on allowing US-provided Army Tactical Missile Systems — known as ATACMS — to be launched on targets inside Russia.

But the United Kingdom has sent its own long-range Storm Shadow missiles to Kyiv. Their use, along with use of similar weapons from France, is currently limited to within Ukraine.

A change in that policy will require U.S. sign-off, which is what Biden and Starmer will be discussing in their meeting on Friday.

Biden and British PM Kier Starmer set for crunch talks on Ukraine

President Joe Biden has signaled a new openness to allowing Ukraine to send long-range missiles into Russia amid a warning from Vladimir Putin such a move would lead to 'war.'

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12:59

Kamala Harris heads to Trump counties as she makes campaign swing through Pennsylvania

GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA - SEPTEMBER 12: Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at the Greensboro Coliseum September 12, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Harris held two rallies today in the state of North Carolina on the heels of her debate two nights ago with Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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

Kamala Harris is headed to Trump country today to campaign in counties that Trump won in 2020 and 2016 as she looks to win Pennsyvlania.

The vice president is first headed to Johnstown, PA this afternoon. It is in Cambria County which Trump won by more than 68 percent in the last election even as he lost the state.

From there, she’s headed to Wilkes-Barre which is in Luzerne County. Trump won it in 2020 by more than 56 pecent in 2020.

It’s part of the second stretch of Harris’ ‘New Way Forward Tour’ as she mounts an aggressive campaign in the final stretch.

The move to head into so-called Trump country is part of an effort by the Harris campaign to grow her support.

In Johnstown, Harris will meet with a local small business owner as she promotes her economic plan. In Wilkes-Barre, she will hold a rally at the McHale Center.

The last Democrat to win both of those counties in a presidential election was President Obama in 2008. He also won Luzerne in 2012.