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

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior Political Reporter

Of the seven swing states needed to secure victory in November, a new poll finds Pennsylvania and Georgia are the key states that could tip either way.

Likely voters in Wisconsin and Michigan lean toward Kamala Harris by 6 percent and 5 percent respectively and toward Trump in Arizona by 5 points, according to A new CNN/SSRS poll published on Wednesday.

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

Nevada also has a difference of just one point: 48 percent to 47 percent favor the vice president over the former president. But there are only six Electoral College votes in the Democratic-leaning western state.

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

President Joe Biden won six of the seven key states in 2020, flipping five of them from Republican to Democrat and winning some states by very small margins. In Georgia, Biden won by just under 12,000 votes and in Arizona by just over 10,000.

“Do you think Americans really think this is an important issue? You know what they care about?” he told Fox News’ Peter Doocy when asked about the issue at Tuesday’s press conference. “They care about the economy, they care about cutting costs, they care about health care — that’s what Americans care about.”

“I’m not even going to consider any questions about it… hearing it sounds so ridiculous.”

“It’s crazy,” he added.

Social media went wild on Monday with claims that Harris used a “fake accent” when speaking to a teachers union during a campaign rally in Michigan.

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

Ask Donald Trump, a man known for putting his family at the centre of his political and business world, if we’ll be seeing more of former first lady Melania on the campaign trail and his eyes will light up.

“I would like to, that’s not the point. This world is horrible for me,” he said six weeks after an assassin’s bullet went through his ear.

“It’s not as bad for Democrats as it is for me. And I wish my family didn’t have to go out and deal with some of the things that, as you know, happen.”

Melania, he said, cares deeply about the country.

An explosive congressional report claims would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks was incapacitated by a local police officer before being killed by a Secret Service sniper.

Two months after Crooks shot the former president in the ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a preliminary report by Rep. Clay Higgins offered a different narrative than the official one pushed by the FBI.

The congressman said the local police officer’s shot “hit Crooks’ rifle and shattered his face, neck and right shoulder because the stock (of the gun) broke,” meaning Crooks was unable to continue shooting before he died.