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

Donald Trump doubled down on his questions about Kamala Harris’s race – which have drawn a strong rebuke – saying “I think I was right.”

But, President Joe Biden dropped out of the race paving the way for Vice President Harris to ascend to the top of the Democratic ticket. It was a move that has put the Trump campaign on its heels as Harris has surged in polls and momentum.

The Trump campaign denied the Times’ report that the Republican nominee has seen struggles in his campaign. Still, several examples show the potential pitfalls Trump has encountered in recent weeks.

Alex Lang reports.

With Kamala Harris taking her place at the top of the Democratic Party ticket and selecting Tim Walz as her running mate, on Thursday the Cook Political Report showed that the electoral race in Arizona, along with Nevada and Georgia, had flipped from “leaning Republican” to “toss-up” over just a few weeks.

When Joe Biden was top of the ticket, Donald Trump was leading him by approximately 2.5 per cent in the state.

Enthusiasm behind the Harris ticket and a quest to deny Donald Trump a second term in the White House has seen a movement by moderate Republicans to back the Democrat.

Here’s the Republican Mayor of Mesa, Arizona, endorsing Harris:

In the latest local polling, Harris now leads Trump by two per cent, while down-ticket in the Senate race, Democrat Ruben Gallego is leading MAGA loyalist Kari Lake by 11 points!

Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media and Technology Group has reported a $16.4m loss and less than $1m in quarterly revenue, only months after it began trading publicly to much fanfare earlier this year.

The parent company of Truth Social said on Friday in its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had earned $837,000 in revenue for the second quarter of 2024 — down 30 per cent from the same period last year — and had also paid millions of dollars to cover legal expenses related to its stock market listing.

“Additionally, the Company incurred $3.1 million of IT consulting and software licensing expenses, primarily related to its software licensing agreement to power its new TV streaming service,” Trump Media said in a press release.

Trump Media said it ended the quarter with $344m in cash and cash equivalents, with no debt.

On March 27, shares in Trump Media closed at $66.22. On Friday at market close, they were $26.21.

The company has a market capitalization of nearly $5bn, an extraordinarily high valuation given its very modest sales.

Truth Social plays a major role in Trump’s campaign for reelection, with the former president usually posting several times a day. He has 7.5 million followers on the site, which he started having been deplatformed by both Twitter and Facebook following the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

By contrast, early in her speech at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, she received heckles from pro-Palestine protesters chanting “free, free Palestine.” In response, Harris tried to speak from a policy perspective.

Eric Garcia watched her remarks.

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.