New ballot exhibits Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in essential battleground states: Live

The most recent financial disclosures of JD Vance have revealed an electic investment portfolio – from the right-wing streaming service, Rumble and a popular Catholic prayer app, to a controversial biotech firm.

The 2022 filings, made to the Senate Ethics Committee, shows that Trump’s running mate also had financial interests in a housekeeping services provider, legal technology developer and student loans assistance company, among others. The Ohio senator has requested an extension on his 2023 filings.

The investments have been made through different companies set up by Vance and his associates, some named in apparent reference to JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Mike Bedigan reports.

The former House speaker sat down with The New Yorker for an interview which published on Thursday; in it, she outlined a bleak outlook for the Biden campaign following the president’s concerning appearance at June’s presidential debate in Atlanta.

Pelosi told David Remnick that she didn’t see a path to victory for the incumbent president after he appeared lost on stage at points and could not complete his thoughts.

John Bowden reports.

President Joe Biden has recorded an interview with Robert Costa of CBS News — his first since withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race. The full interview will be broadcast on CBS Sunday Morning tomorrow.

Asked if he were confident that there would be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025, Biden said: “If Trump loses, I’m not confident at all. He means what he says. We don’t take him seriously. He means it, all the stuff about, ‘If we lose, there’ll be a bloodbath, it’ll have to be a stolen election.’”

Here’s a clip:

Meanwhile, Ohio Senator JD Vance, Donald Trump’s choice for running mate, will also be making the rounds of the Sunday shows. He will interviewed by Jonathan Karl on ABC News’s This Week, also on Sunday morning — other guests scheduled to appear are Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and Charlamagne tha God, co-host of The Breakfast Club.

The senator is also scheduled to appear on CNN’s State of the Union (other guests: Senator Bernie Sanders, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg) and CBS’s Face the Nation (alongside Kansas Governor Laura Kelly; Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America; retired General Frank McKenzie, former commander of US Central Command).

Fox News Sunday will have Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Democrat Rep Jason Crow of Colorado.

On NBC, Meet the Press is pre-empted by coverage of the Olympics from Paris.

The White House has condemned Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich for arguing against a ceasefire and hostage release deal brokered with the Biden administration, calling his recent public statements unhelpful and dangerous.

National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby on Friday said the US welcomes Israel’s announcement that it will participate in talks with Hamas representatives set to begin next week, either in Doha or Cairo, and said President Joe Biden has spoken with Israeli and Qatari leaders about “a way forward” to “close remaining gaps and to see if we can get this hostage deal concluded.”

Andrew Feinberg reports.

Per NBC News:

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was just a year into his first term when in May of 2020 a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes, spurring protests across the state and the nation.

To Philonise Floyd, Walz’s compassion and dedication to ensure accountability for his older brother’s murder — and for other police brutality victims in Minnesota — is one of the things that make him worthy of being the next vice president of the United States.

“He’s built for this,” Floyd, 43, said on Friday. “He’s built for this fight that he’s going to go through and I think he can do it.”

The Associated Press reported that the plane was diverted from Bozeman, Montana due to a mechanical issue but landed safely at Billings Logan International Airport. A staff member at the Billings airport confirmed the incident.

Michelle Del Rey reports.

A California man with a history of political violence was sentenced on Friday to 20 years in prison for repeatedly attacking police with flagpoles and other makeshift weapons during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

David Nicholas Dempsey’s sentence is among the longest among hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions. Prosecutors described him as one of the most violent members of the mob of Donald Trump supporters that attacked the Capitol as lawmakers met to certify Joe Biden‘s 2020 presidential election victory.

Dempsey, who is from Van Nuys, stomped on police officers’ heads. He swung poles at officers defending a tunnel, struck an officer in the head with a metal crutch and attacked police with pepper spray and broken pieces of furniture, prosecutors said.

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Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump in three of the most important battleground states that will likely decide the election.

A new poll from The New York Times and Siena College shows the vice president has dramatically reversed the fortunes of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

In a survey of likely voters conducted between August 5 and 9, Harris leads Trump by four percentage points 50 per cent to 46 per cent.

Per the Times:

While the reshaped race is still in its volatile early weeks, Democrats are now in a notably stronger position in these three battleground states that have long been key to the party’s victories — or defeats. Still, the results show vulnerabilities for Ms. Harris. Voters prefer Mr. Trump when it comes to whom they trust to handle the economy and immigration, issues that remain central to the presidential race.

Much of the newfound Democratic strength stems from improved voter perceptions of Ms. Harris. Her favorability rating has increased 10 percentage points among registered voters in Pennsylvania just in the last month, according to Times/Siena polling. Voters also view Ms. Harris as more intelligent and more temperamentally fit to govern than Mr. Trump.