Poll in key state shows surge in youth support for candidate in Trump-Harris race

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior Political Reporter

Kamala Harris is regaining ground that President Joe Biden struggled to gain among young voters this election cycle.

Biden, 81, was lagging in the polls when he was still in the race, largely due to losing support among younger voters.

But now, with Harris, 59, at the top of the ticket, this voting bloc has growing enthusiasm for the November election.

In a five-candidate race, Harris leads Donald Trump by 9 percentage points among these millennial and Gen Z registered voters, a 10-point jump from last month, when Biden was trailing the former president.

Time magazine’s cover story offers a bright picture of the start of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign and seeks to capitalize on the momentum the Democratic candidate is experiencing.

The story is titled ‘The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris’ and the cover features a stoic black-and-white portrait of the vice president.

“Where has this Kamala Harris been all this time?” the article asks, adding:

Judging by the past few weeks, Harris’s own party has underestimated her.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior Political Reporter

Elon Musk revealed that his conversation with Donald Trump on Monday night will take place live on X.

The former president will return to the platform to host the talk with the billionaire on his own after being largely absent since 2021, when he was banned by then-Twitter owner Jack Dorsey.

Musk promised to conduct “system escalation testing” before talks with Trump.

This comes after a failed campaign launch in X with Ron DeSantis last year, when the Florida governor was launching his bid for the Republican presidential primary.

The only activity Trump has undertaken on his X account since January 8, 2021, was reposting in August 2023 an image of his now-famous Fultin County Jail mugshot.

Just 12 days after the first anniversary of that publication, Trump will return to the platform for his long-awaited chat with Musk.

The battalion commander who led Tim Walz’s former unit slammed the vice presidential candidate over allegations of “stolen valor.”

Now Lt. Col. John Kolb, the man who would take over Walz’s unit after the governor resigned in 2005, has blasted the Democrat for claiming the rank of command sergeant major and for retiring early from deployment to Iraq.

Kolb wrote in a Facebook post that Walz “did not earn the rank,” adding that “it is an affront to the NCO Corps that he continues to hold on to the title.”

A US aircraft carrier strike group has been moved to the Middle East as new Israeli intelligence reports suggest Iran will launch an attack within days.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a guided-missile submarine to the Middle East late Sunday and ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to quickly move to the area, the Defense Department announced.

The move came just hours after Austin spoke with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said.

During that conversation, Gallant told Austin that Iranian military preparations suggest the country is preparing for a large-scale attack in retaliation for the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas. Axios reports.

His killing, as well as that of top Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr by Israel in an attack on Beirut, have fuelled concerns of a wider war in the Middle East.

A veteran Republican pollster has warned that Donald Trump is “destroying his re-election chances” after the former president fell behind Kamala Harris in recent polls.

Frank Luntz, dubbed “the Nostradamus of pollsters,” said last week that Harris is slightly favored to win, and has now revealed why he thinks Trump is slipping: “The campaign is disciplined; their candidate is not.”

“(Trump) is single-handedly destroying his chance at re-election. He is the weakest Democratic candidate in terms of record in a long time, but his insistence on making attacks personal and cruel is dulling their impact and actually backfiring,” Luntz said. The Guardian.

The announcement comes amid reports that Trump’s recent criticisms, including claims that Harris “went black,” have scared off donors. The vice president, on the other hand, is enjoying a honeymoon period with liberal media falling over themselves to promote her campaign and pollsters predicting her to win the White House.

Luntz says Trump can regain momentum by focusing on two key issues: the border crisis, which Harris presided over disastrously, and the faltering economy.

“Right now I think Trump is going to lose because he is unable to sustain a message on inflation or immigration,” Luntz said.