69 minutes ago Harris campaign reportedly fears ‘blue wall’ could crumble; Eminem to introduce Obama at rally – US politics live

Vice-president’s team concerned Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania might not vote as a block for first time since 1988Don’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alertsKamala Harris has a significant advantage over Donald Trump among young voters, matching the lead Joe Biden ended up taking in the 2020 election, a new poll finds.The survey from CNBC Generation Lab shows Harris up 20 percentage points with voters aged 18 to 34, with 60% support compared with Trump’s 40%. That’s about the same margin by which Biden won the group four years ago. Continue reading...

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Watch live as federal prosecutors, FBI officials, and New York Police Department (NYPD) officials announce the arrests and charges in a sex trafficking and interstate prostitution case.

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2 hours ago Kamala Harris campaign reportedly bracing for tight election amid fears ‘blue wall’ could crumble – US politics live

Vice-president’s team concerned Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvia might not vote as a block for first time since 1988Don’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alertsKamala Harris has a significant advantage over Donald Trump among young voters, matching the lead Joe Biden ended up taking in the 2020 election, a new poll finds.The survey from CNBC Generation Lab shows Harris up 20 percentage points with voters aged 18 to 34, with 60% support compared with Trump’s 40%. That’s about the same margin by which Biden won the group four years ago. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Trump confidant Laura Loomer claims she is ‘blacker’ than Kamala Harris

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2 hours ago Election 2024 live: Trump pursues Latino votes during roundtable; Harris sits down for NBC interview

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3 hours ago Those early Zoom meetings got people fired up for Harris. Now they're trying to get them to vote

Kamala Harris' candidacy generated a burst of enthusiasm through Zoom meetings this summer

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3 hours ago Is it wrong for Elon Musk to offer voters $1m a day to get Trump elected? That’s a tough one | Marina Hyde

The great and good of US media and politics can’t decide if the lavish giveaway is unethical or illegal. I’m no expert, but it seems off to meFor a guy who has spent his entire life making “I am very rich” the keystone of his personal brand, there is something quite poignant about watching Donald Trump get financially cucked by Elon Musk on stage every night. Musk is much younger, much richer, and has had a much more successful series of hair transplants. But needs must, it seems.As you might be aware, Musk has recently decided to update the tired dystopian fiction trope in which impoverished citizens are forced to compete in deadly gameshows where the winner gets a life-changingly glittering prize, and the losers are killed for sport. In Elon’s rebooted version, the richest man in the ...

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3 hours ago Americans don’t want to see a Trump movie but elsewhere it’s a different story

Controversial drama The Apprentice has bombed stateside but it’s attracting bigger audiences in other parts of the worldI’ll be the first to admit that I did not want to watch The Apprentice, the new film chronicling Donald Trump’s ascendancy through 1970s and 80s New York. Like most people in my liberal social circle, my reaction to the movie’s existence was essentially: why? Why watch two hours of a de-handsomed (though still recognizable) Sebastian Stan as the young real estate mogul, and Jeremy Strong as his mentor Roy Cohn, go through events I already know – if not in exact detail, than certainly in spirit – in the life of a man I actively wish I knew less about?And yet I found the film, written by Vanity Fair’s Trump chronicler Gabriel Sherman and directed by Iranian Danish film-m...

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