Trump vs Harris live: Harris’s lead widens in new post-DNC poll as pressure rises ahead of her CNN interview

A spokesperson for the US Army says participants in the Trump event at Arlington National Cemetery “were made aware of federal laws” regarding political activity and then “abruptly pushed” an employee of the site.

“This incident was unfortunate … the ANC employee and her professionalism has been unfairly attacked.”

This week, in an attempt at a light-hearted post about the controversy, the Ohio senator shared a photo of a cat wearing a “Cats for Vance 2024” bandana.

It did not go well, as Rhian Lubin reports.

While analysts debate whether his opponent is pivoting to the center after being elevated to the position of Democratic nominee, Donald Trump is showing no signs of doing so.

First came his explanation for why temperatures are warming and the Earth’s climate is now observably headed in one direction: nuclear weapons.

Ariana Baio has the story.

But, surprisingly it was a different topic of discussion that led to a fiery exchange, after the campaign advisor targeted Melber for his reporting about the Republican National Convention last month.

On Wednesday evening, Vice President Kamala Harris will make her first big swing through Georgia with her running mate, Tim Walz .

President Joe Biden won the state in 2020 by the narrowest of margins. Democrats flipped the two Senate seats in the runoff races in 2021 and Raphael Warnock held his seat in the 2022 midterm. So it’s no surprise Harris is concentrating on the state today.

Kamala Harris has surged ahead of Donald Trump, 48 percent to 43 percent in a new USA Today/Suffolk University Poll that was conducted after the Democratic National Convention.

This is an eight-point turnaround in the presidential race from late June, when Trump led President Joe Biden in the survey by nearly four points.

The vice president’s small lead was fueled by big shifts among some key demographic groups traditionally crucial for Democrats, including Hispanic and Black voters and young people. Among those with annual incomes of less than $20,000, in the biggest change, a three-point Trump edge over Biden in June has become a 23-point Harris advantage over Trump in August.

The poll of 1,000 likely voters, taken by landline and cell phone Sunday through Wednesday, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. With the election approaching, the survey is now measuring likely voters; previous polls were of registered voters.

Harris has succeeded in doing what Biden never could this year: Lead Trump.

David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said: “With the ‘Brat Summer’ of Kamala Harris emojis winding down, young people, persons of color, and low-income households have swung dramatically toward the vice president.”

He added: “These same demographics were emphasized and woven together by numerous speakers at the convention.”

Some of the biggest shifts since the June poll, which fall outside the poll’s margin of error, include:

• Voters 18 to 34 years old previously supported Trump by 11 points and now back Harris by 13 points (49%-36%)
• Hispanic voters, who have been heavily courted by the Trump campaign, moved from supporting Trump by two points to supporting Harris by 16 points (53%-37%)
• Black voters, one of the Democrats’ traditional core constituencies, shifted from supporting Biden by a 47-point margin to supporting Harris by 64 points (76%-12%)
• Lower-income voters now support Harris by a margin of 23 points (58%-35%)

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) studied Grok’s ability to transform prompts about election fraud and candidates into images.

It found that the tool was able to churn out “convincing images” after being given prompts, including one AI image of Vice President Kamala Harris doing drugs and another of former president Donald Trumplooking sick in bed.

Kelly Rissman has the details.

This week, the former president has sparked fury from veterans, military groups, and soldiers’ families after he was, firstly, captured posing with his thumbs up and smiling at a soldier’s grave and, secondly, two of his campaign staffers were accused of verbally abusing and pushing a cemetery official.

Now, Trump is under fire for turning the anniversary of the deaths of fallen American servicemen into a campaign video with social media users branding it “disgusting.”

Myriam Page has the story.