2024 election live updates: Latest poll finds Harris ‘narrowly’ wins over Trump

For the past year, pollsters, pundits and political operatives have been hard at work spinning a narrative about Black voters, and younger men in particular. Those voters, many have warned, are increasingly turning away from the Democratic Party, which has enjoyed a massive advantage among Black voters for decades.

“Black men are rapidly abandoning the Democratic Party”, a triumphant headline declared on the website of the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) earlier this year. That assertion was backed up by a poll from the NAACP in August, which found that as many as one in four young black male voters were considering voting for Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, here’s a recent cover of The Economist, which called the US economy “The Envy of The World”, and endorsed Kamala Harris yesterday:

And, as we posted earlier, here’s a letter from more than 300 economists opposing Trump.

Reese Witherspoon, star of The Morning Show and Big Little Lies, has endorsed Kamala Harris.

In a post on Instagram, she wrote: “I voted today. ✅ Top of my mind, as I considered all candidates, is protecting women’s rights to medical privacy and reproductive choice.

“This is a critical time in our shared history to vote for the candidate that represents the future we want to see. That’s why I voted for Kamala Harris for President. For my daughter and for the millions of hard-working American women who value our freedoms. I want to protect democracy at all costs.

“I love my country and no matter what happens in this election, I’m here to move our great nation forward in a unified way. 🇺🇸”

Robert F Kennedy Jr posted more than 800 words on X by way of explaining the now infamous “joke” about Puerto Rico made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who he says is his friend.

The post seeks to do damage control as Puerto Ricans and other Latino Americans expressed their disgust and dismay at the comment.

You can read the full post here:

The Kamala Harris campaign’s director of repaid response kept their response short:

Vice President Kamala Harris tweeted: “Donald Trump’s track record for the auto industry was a disaster. As president, he promised that the auto industry would not “lose one plant” during his term. Then six auto plants closed.

“Yet another empty promise—typical for a person that is all talk and no walk.”

“If we elect someone who tries to end democracy at every turn, as Trump did after losing the 2020 election, it really could end, just as it has in other countries,” they write.

They argued that voters concerned about the economy should not choose the former president, warning among other things that his tariff policy would be damaging.

“Just as Mexico didn’t pay for a wall in his first term, China will not pay for Trump’s tariffs if he’s given a second term. You will,” they added.

With less than a week before Americans head to the polls on Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is feeling the wind at their backs after a series of unforced errors by Donald Trump may have helped push undecided voters her way.

According to senior Harris campaign officials, undecided voters are casting their ballots for the vice president by a significant margin and have been driven by Trump’s extreme rhetoric and offensive remarks made by his surrogates, including at his Madison Square Garden rally last weekend.

One official told reporters on Friday that voters in a focus group held in a swing state this week were turned off by the hateful remarks directed at Puerto Rico by a pro-Trump comedian during the rally.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.