Election polls live updates: Trump surges to early voting lead in battleground state

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

About 700,000 people – half the expected number of voters in the state – have already cast their ballots.

Registered Republicans have a 40,000, or 5.7 percent, lead over registered Democrats.

Jon Ralston, editor of the Nevada Independent, said:

This is a unicorn year. We have never seen this before. There is still a lot of time, but Republicans have reason to be confident with this unprecedented turnout pattern.”

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, was released from prison today after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

Bannon, 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 by reposting the National Pulse report on social media platform X.

He will hold a press conference in Manhattan later today 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, after rising from his role at Breitbart to become one of the most influential right-wing voices.

Bannon joined Trump in the White House but spectacularly fell out with him 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 the election was stolen.

Joe Rogan has revealed that Kamala Harris agreed to appear on his podcast, but he declined the terms proposed by her team.

Rogan, who recently had a three-hour conversation with Republican candidate Donald Trump, says the Harris campaign offered him to interview the vice president on Tuesday, but he said he would “travel to her” and “just a hours wanted to do’. ‘.

“I feel strongly that the best way to do that is in the studio in Austin,” he revealed Monday night on X. “My sincere desire is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a person. I really hope we succeed.’

Liberals have urged Harris to talk to Rogan after it emerged that Trump’s interview with the podcaster racked up a whopping 17 million YouTube views in less than 24 hours.

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

After the dramatic shakeup at the top of the Democratic presidential nomination, Democrats are growing increasingly confident in their ability to keep the White House and Senate and flip the House with Kamala Harris as their presidential nominee.

But two congressional districts could help decide the fate of the country, not just in November, but in both chambers of Congress: Pennsylvania’s Eighth Congressional District and Nebraska’s Second Congressional District.

The case for keeping an eye on these two districts to know where the election is going was first made by Steve Israel, former New York Congressman and chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

He wrote in June: “When the dust settles, the results from Nebraska’s 8th and 2nd Congressional Districts will be the only information you need to conclude who won the 2024 election. For the next five months, they will be the center of the political universe.”

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

Katelyn Caralle, senior US political reporter

Michigan voters are siding with Donald Trump with just a week until Election Day.

Of the 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 vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

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

Regardless of who they support or vote for, survey 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 deserve another term.

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

Even before the event, critics including Hillary Clinton’s running mate Tim Walz and Kamala Harris compared it to a 1939 gathering of Nazi sympathizers at the same location.

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

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

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

He was prayed for in an emotional moment by faith leaders across the state earlier in the day before drawing a raucous MAGA crowd.