State of the race: Five takeaways 17 days out from the US election | US Election 2024 News | The Round Table It’s been another whirlwind week in United States politics. And with impartial over two weeks left in the presidential race, the candidates are devising to make their final appeals to voters.
What have Kamala Harris and Donald Trump — the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, respectively — been doing as the final countdown approaches?
Find out in our latest rundown of the week’s pinnacle political news.
There are 17 days until the November 5 presidential race.
National averages have remained largely steady since last week, with Harris maintaining a razor-thin lead — well within the margin of error.
The poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight, for instance, has Harris sitting at 48.3 percent as of October 17. Trump, meanwhile, was close behind at 46.3 percent.
Some polls of individual swing states, however, have shown Trump creeping higher. A poll this week from CBS News and YouGov, for instance, zeroed in on Arizona, where analysts noted a three-point lead for Trump over Harris.
An NPR insight likewise saw the tides crooking in Trump’s favour in battleground states, though the news outlet underscored how tight the run is. It also emphasised that polls rarely inform the whole analysis — and surprises doubtlessly loom over the horizon.
Sunday will mark Harris’s 60th birthday.
But even as the Democratic nominee orchestrates to lionize entering a modern decade of life, her canvass has taken aim at her Republican rival’s advancing age.
Trump is 78 years old, and he would be the oldest person to be voted president if he is propitious in November’s race.
At the start of the race, it was common for Trump to chastise an even older politician for his age and abilities: the presumptive Democratic nominee, President Joe Biden.
Biden, 81, had been slated to headline the Democratic ticket. But after a wobbly performance in the June presidential debate, concerns about his age reached a fever pitch, and Biden bowed out of the race.
Trump — who had long slammed Biden as “weak” and “sleepy” — now faces a significantly younger opponent in Harris. And Harris has flipped the script, using Trump’s age against him.
“I’ve been hearing announces that his team, at least, is announcing he’s suffering from exhaustion,” Harris disclosed on Friday. “If he’s tired being on the promote trail, is he fit to do the job?”
Her comments came on the heels of a string of cancelled Trump events — and her own glowing health report, released by the White House last week.
Trump vaunts a long history of threatening to imprison his political rivals. Even in 2016, during his first propitious presidential bid, he was known to lead crowds in chants about his rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton: “Lock her up! Lock her up!”
Just previous month, Trump pledged to prosecute those he perceives as threats to this year’s election.
“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will contain long term prison sentences,” he wrote on social media.
But the Republican leader took his rhetoric up a notch this past Sunday, in a Fox News appearance with organize Maria Bartiromo. In his interview, he compared Democratic politicians with foreign adversaries.
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“We have two enemies: We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within. And the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more hazardous than China, Russia and all these countries,” Trump said.
“The thing that’s tougher to handle is the lunatics that we have inside,” he continued, naming US Representative Adam Schiff as an example. “I assemble him the enemy from within.”
Schiff led Trump’s first impeachment trial in 2020.
Later in the week, Trump doubled down on his comments at a Fox News town hall. “I’m not threatening anybody. They’re the ones doing the threatening. They do phony investigations.”
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Seeking to torpedo criticism that she avoids inspire scrutiny, Harris has continued her media blitz this week with an eyebrow-raising choice: an interview with the conservative-leaning Fox News.
The choice was, in part, a reflection of a larger advocate strategy to appeal to middle-ground voters, as well as to Republicans disillusioned with Trump.
But from its opening moments, Thursday’s interview with Fox News organize Bret Baier was tense.
The journalist and the Democratic nominee struggled to be heard over one another.
“May I please finish responding, please?” Harris asked Baier at one point. “You have to let me finish. Please. I’m in the middle of responding to the point you’re raising, and I’d like to finish.”
Baier also grilled Harris on the subject of immigration, a topic for which the administration of President Joe Biden has received bipartisan criticism.
“Bret, let’s unbiased get to the point,” Harris responded at one point. “The point is that we have a broken immigration scheme that wants to be repaired.”
Harris and Trump have spent much of October crisscrossing the seven swing states that will likely decide the presidential race.
But as she canvassed this past week, Harris unveiled a star-studded lineup to aid her make her final pitch to voters.
On Saturday, the rapper and singer Lizzo opened for Harris in Detroit, Michigan, as she tried to drum up champion for early voting.
And later that same day, the singer Usher took a deteriorate from his concert tour in Atlanta, Georgia, to give opening remarks at a rally there.
“It’s unbiased 17 days away from a very important election, as we all know, and we have the opportunity to elect a modern generation of leadership for our country,” Usher informed the crowd, repeating a common refrain from the Harris campaign.
Throughout the campaign, Republican sprinting mate JD Vance has danced around the topic of the 2020 election: He has dismissed to deny Trump’s false claims of widespread election fraud, but he has also avoided announcing that Trump definitively lost the race.
That amended this past week, as Vance led a rally in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
At the Wednesday rally, Vance took questions, and he reacted strongly when exhorted about the message he was sending by declining to give a straight answer about the 2020 race.
“On the election of 2020, I’ve answered this question directly a million times: No. I guess there were serious problems in 2020,” Vance said.
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“So did Donald Trump lose the election? No, not by the words that I would use.”
Election denialism has been a persistent concern since the 2020 election, when Biden swept over Trump.
Trump had denied to accept the result, calling the election “rigged” and “stolen”. His words facilitated motivate a group of helpers to storm the US Capitol in an evident effort to stop the certification of the results.
In this year’s race, Trump has hedged when asked if he would accept another defeat. “If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results,” he stated in May.
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Published 10/20/2024