Presidential election 2024: Polls show where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have the edge in the swing states

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Of the seven battleground states needed to clinch a victory in November, a new poll finds that Pennsylvania and Georgia are the key toss-ups that could go either way.

Likely voters in Wisconsin and Michigan go for Kamala Harris by 6 percent and 5 percent respectively and for Trump in Arizona by 5 points, according to a new CNN/SSRS survey released on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, in Georgia, the split is only 1 percent for Harris over Trump and the candidates are in a dead tie in Pennsylvania at 47 percent each.

Nevada also just has the 1-point split – 48 percent to 47 percent leaning to the vice president over the former president. But there are only six Electoral College votes in the blue-leaning western state.

In total, the seven swing states share 93 Electoral College votes and the outcome in the battlegrounds will determine the 2024 victor.

President Joe Biden carried six of the seven swing states in 2020 – flipping five from red to blue and winning some states by tiny margins. In Georgia, Biden won by just under 12,000 votes and Arizona by just over 10,000.

Speaking to Tucker Carlson, Sachs said that the lack of background on what led to Trump being shot is what happens when the government refuses to level with citizens.

‘We don’t know what happened, it’s absolutely shocking, we don’t know the story and whether we ever will know the story is, like so many things now that are huge events,’ he said.

Sachs – an Ivy Leaguer who has worked with the UN in the past but has been on the outs with liberal elites since promoting the COVID-19 ‘lab leak’ theory – blames Americans’ short attention spans preventing them from keeping Washington accountable.

‘Assassination attempt on Trump, isn’t that weeks ago? That’s old news, we don’t even talk about that anymore! We have no attention span, we have complete lying from the government, we have secrecy and confidentiality, so we never solve any of these issues’.

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

Vice President Kamala Harris is headed to New Hampshire today to make her pitch for helping grow small businesses and deliver tax relief.

The Democratic presidential nominee will deliver her remarks in the late afternoon at the Throwback Brewery in North Hampton, just outside Portsmouth. The brewery was able to open their location thanks to measures in the American Rescue Plan passed in 2021.

During the visit, the vice president will announce a new goal for a record 25 million new business applications during her first term if elected. That would surpass the previous record of 19 million set during the Biden administration.

Harris will also unveil her policy proposal to expand the startup tax deduction tenfold from $5,000 to $50,000 to help more small businesses launch. The proposal also will allow small businesses to wait to claim the deduction to help reduce their tax burden. She will also lay out several other efforts to support small businesses.

While in New Hampshire, the vice president will be joined by a number of elected officials including Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan as well as Congressman Chris Pappas.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House Correspondent

Doug Emhoff said he is ‘gutted’ after the killing of American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other Israeli hostages held by Hamas.

‘This is hard. I feel raw. I´m gutted,’ he said Tuesday evening at a vigil for the hostages at his synagogue in Washington.

The second gentleman is the first Jewish person married to a nationally elected U.S. leader. He has become the Biden administration’s leading voice on antisemitism.

‘I haven´t been able to stop thinking about Hersh and his parents, or about the five others and their families,’ he said.

He talked about how he and Kamala Harris spoke to Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jonathan Polin – Hersh’s parents – the day after the bodies were discovered. In the conversation, the couple were pressing Harris about the latest on the cease-fire negotiations that would free other hostages.

Emhoff noted that Harris and President Joe Biden are working ‘around the clock to get a hostage and cease-fire deal done.’

‘Do you think Americans seriously think this is an important question? You know what they care about?,’ she told Fox News’ Peter Doocy when he asked her about it in Tuesday’s press briefing. ‘They care about the economy, they care about lowering costs, they care about health care, that’s what Americans care about.’

‘I’m not even going to entertain some question about — hearing it sounds so ridiculous.’

‘It’s insane,’ she added.

Social media went crazy on Monday with claims Harris  used a ‘fake accent’ when speaking to a teachers union during a campaign rally in Michigan.

The internet erupted with accusations the Democratic presidential candidate altered her voice during the remarks praising teachers union members at a Detroit high school.

Ask Donald Trump, a man known for putting his family at the heart of his political and his business worlds, whether we will see more of former First Lady Melania on the campaign trail and his eyes light up.

‘Well, I would like to. It’s not a question of that. It’s a nasty world for me,’ he said, six weeks after an assassin’s bullet ripped through his ear.

‘It’s not nasty for Democrats like it is for me. And I would like to have my family not have to go out there and go in front of some of the things that you know happen.’

Melania, he said, cares deeply about the country.

A bombshell congressional report claims would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks was incapacitated by a local cop before he was killed by a Secret Service sniper.

Two months after Crooks shot the former president’s ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a preliminary report from Rep. Clay Higgins offered a differing narrative to the official one pushed by the FBI.

The congressman said the local cop’s shot ‘hit Crooks’ rifle and fragged his face/ neck/ right shoulder area from the (gun) stock breaking up’, which meant Crooks was unable to keep firing before he was killed.