2024 presidential election: Donald Trump’s chances of beating Kamala Harris are increasing, says top forecaster

Donald Trump’s chances of beating Kamala Harris have improved thanks to a series of strong polls, according to a leading election forecaster.

Harris remains the front-runner, with a 55 percent chance of victory, while Trump is now at 45 percent after rising from 39 percent on Sept. 17.

G. Elliott Morris of 538 said Trump’s advance is due to a national Quinnipiac poll showing him with a 1-point lead and a New York Times/Siena poll showing him leading in the critical Sun Belt states of Arizona, North Carolina and Georgia.

“That’s hardly better than flipping a coin!” Morris adds.

‘Narrow margins in key states make this cycle’s presidential race the closest in decades; the outcome could be closer than any election in nearly 150 years.’

Kamala Harris will finally have her first in-person interview as a Democratic presidential candidate on Wednesday night.

The vice president will sit down with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle in Pittsburgh for a conversation that will air at 7 p.m. ET.

Harris’ strategy has largely been to avoid the media since President Joe Biden dropped out and she was catapulted into the nomination.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rebuked a CNN anchor in a tense exchange for mentioning recent comments about Vice President Kamala Harris’s cognitive ability.

The San Francisco Democrat’s irascible response came after CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked her about recent comments by former President Donald Trump.

“Donald Trump says Kamala Harris has bigger cognitive problems than Joe Biden,” Tapper began as he appeared ready to finish his question.

Then Pelosi abruptly interjects: “Why would you cover that up?”

Donald Trump has claimed to have received intelligence indicating that Iran had made “real and specific threats” to assassinate him.

The Republican presidential candidate’s campaign gave the chilling update Tuesday night, in a statement that described the plans as “an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States.”

The newsletter was sent by Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung and claimed that the former commander in chief had been briefed on the alleged plot.

This comes days after investigators discovered that Iranian “malicious cyber actors” sent emails to associates of President Biden’s campaign with information “taken from stolen, non-public Trump campaign materials” over the summer.

This also follows two failed assassination attempts against the second-term presidential hopeful, the most recent of which occurred this month.