Trump, Harris to be with the stars; the latest polls

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump they spent months courting the pivotal state voters who could ultimately decide choice. On Friday, Trump will return to one of those states, holding a rally in Traverse City, Michigan. He will do stay for an interview with Joe Rogan on his mega-popular podcast.

Harris is to appear at a rally in Houston, TexasFriday. The Lone Star State is expected to ultimately vote for Trump, but the vice president will take the stage with Beyoncé to support Democratic Senate candidate Colin Allred, who is seeking to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.

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New poll shows Harris and Trump tied in the popular vote

According to one poll, Trump and Harris are locked in a big fire in the popular vote by the New York Times and Siena College released on Friday. The poll of 2,516 voters nationwide showed the candidates tied 48 percent to 48 percent. results is within the poll’s margin of error of +/- 2.2 percentage points.

trump card lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton despite winning the Electoral College in 2016. He also lost the popular vote Joe Biden in 2020.

— Rachel Barber and Kinsey Crowley

Trump: ‘I’m not a dictator’ (and my former military officials are lying)

It’s not just John Kelly. Trump has to defend himself against a host of former military leaders — officials he appointed — who say the former president has fascist and authoritarian tendencies.

“If I fire somebody, every newspaper in the world talks to them to see if they can get them to say something bad,” Trump told WABC/New York radio hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby in an interview that aired Thursday .

Kelly, a retired general who served as Trump’s White House chief of staff, told The New York Times that he “definitely fits into the general definition of a fascist, for sure.” Kelly also said, “He definitely prefers the dictator approach to the government.”

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, asked on CNN if he considered Trump a fascist, told CNN: “He certainly has those leanings.”

And Mark Milley, whom Trump nominated to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the book’s author Bob Woodward: “We have to stop him! … He is the most dangerous person ever. I had my suspicions when I told you about his mental decline and so on, but now I realize he’s a total fascist.”

Trump’s response: Invective.

In his radio interview on the “Cats & Cosby Show,” Trump used personal terms to attack Kelly (“a stupid person”), Esper (“a weak guy”) and Milley (“a total dope”).

As for his election opponent, Harris, Trump said of one of his recent interviews: “All he could do was talk about Trump whenever he was asked the question, ‘Well, I think Trump is a dictator.’… No I am a dictator. . It’s just incredible.

–David Jackson

How to see Beyoncé perform at the Harris rally

superstar Beyoncé́ is expected to take the stage at Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally in Houston, Texas, on Friday night.

When Harris released it first video campaign adBeyoncé’s 2016 hit “Freedom” played in the background. Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, Harris agreed in July.

USA TODAY will stream the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer’s performance. live on his YouTube channel.

— Rachel Barber

What other presidential candidates has Beyonce performed for?

Beyonce has previously endorsed former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden for their presidential runs.

The famous pop star performed the national anthem at Obama’s inauguration for a second term as president in 2013. Beyonce, along with other artists, also performed at a concert and rally for Clinton in 2016, when the Democrat ran against Trump.

He is expected to appear at Harris’ rally in Houston on Friday.

— Sudiksha Kochi

differences between how men and women see the state of the nation, the issues that matter, and the candidates represent the defining divide in American politics today, shaping the outcome of the presidential race now just 10 days away.

In the most recent USA TODAY/Suffolk University National Poll, women overwhelmingly supported Democrat Kamala Harris, 53% to 36%. That’s a mirror image of men’s overwhelming support for Republican Donald Trump, 53 percent to 37 percent. If those margins hold through Election Day, it would be the largest disparity since a gender gap emerged more than four decades ago in 1980.

—Susan Page, Sudiksha Kochi, and Maya Marchel Hoff

The key to mobilizing young voters may be peer pressure, new poll shows

From podcast appearances to celebrity endorsements, VP Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump pulled out all the stops in the final days of the 2024 presidential campaign to lure young voters to the polls.

For Harris, those efforts seem to be working.

The Harvard Youth Poll, released Friday, showed Harris leading Trump nationally by 20 points among registered voters under 30. major swing states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Wisconsin — where the race is more competitive, Harris’ lead has dropped to 9 points.

–Karissa Waddick

When will Trump be on Joe Rogan’s podcast?

Former President Donald Trump is set to appear Friday on the podcasting giant “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Rogan is set to interview Trump in his studio in Austin, Texas, as reported by Politico.

This would mark Trump’s first appearance on Rogan’s wildly popular podcast. Vice President Kamala Harris also makes her own podcast appearances, including one on “Call Her Daddy” hosted by Alex Cooper.

— Sudiksha Kochi and Fernando Cervantes Jr.

The survey published on Thursday reaffirms what has been clear for weeks: it’s an incredibly close race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The margin of the electorate that can be swayed by candidates is shrinking as more people across the country turn to voting for advance vote.

Trump leads Harris by two percentage points in a Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday, within the poll’s margin of error. However, Harris led Trump by three percentage points in Tipp’s tracking poll.

– Kinsey Crowley

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Harris will be in the Republican state of Texas. She will join him Colin Allred, the candidate for the Senate at a rally in Houston that will focus on the loss of reproductive freedom — a central issue in both candidates’ campaigns.

Harris is expected to join him at the global superstar’s campaign stop Beyoncéwho is from Houston.

– USA TODAY Network

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Trump will hold a rally in Traverse CityMichigan on Friday, delivering remarks in a crucial battleground.

Trump is too set to appear on the podcasting giant “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Initial reported by PoliticoRogan will interview Trump in his studio in Austin, Texas.

– Fernando Cervantes Jr., Marina Pitofsky