The last hour, shows Kamala Harris has improved upon Joe Bidens numbers. In a aa ballot, 49 of respondents said they would vote for harris and her running mate Tim Walz compared to 44 for donald Trump And J. D. Vance. While those results should give democrats some comfort that Harris Campaign has been effective, those numbers are still within the margin of error and that is important to always recognize when looking at polls. With thousands of early votes cast, and many more Absentee Ballots arriving in mailboxes in the coming days, both campaigns are taking a more aggressive stance in these final weeks of the race. Following her wellreceived Debate Performance just 12 days ago, Kamala Harris is seeking to do it again and face trump at least one more time. Her campaign announced yesterday the democratic nominee accepted a proposed Cnn Debate scheduled for october 23rd, less than two weeks before election day. Now that is basically a dare for Donald Trump, whos insisted that actually he
General election will soon be cast. A handful of states are scheduled to mail out Absentee Ballots in the coming days. North carolina was supposed to be the first state to send out Ballots Yesterday, but that was delayed last minute due to a lawsuit filed by Robert F Kennedy junior who dropped out of the president ial race two weeks ago, but now he wants his name removed from the ballot to prevent spoiling the candidacy of Donald Trump. More than 130,000 voters registered in North Carolina have requested Absentee Ballots so far but it is unclear when they will receive them because the state may have to reprint the ballots which is an effort that could add days to the delay. Meanwhile, among the other states scheduled to begin early voting are illinois, minnesota, virginia and pennsylvania. A Swing State that figures heavily into both campaign electoral strategies. All of that is happening against new developments in the president ial campaign, as well as Donald Trumps legal bowels. Bat
for watching, tomorrow at 5 pm eastern i will host politicsnation live from buffalo new york where i will be commemorating the first anniversary of the mass shooting that killed ten black people last may. governor kathy hochul will join me to discuss her fight against hate crimes in the state. right now american voices with alicia menendez begins. ican voices with hello to youm alicia menendez. on the air tonight, some bad news for trump fans in iowa hoping to see the former president onstage tonight. run by the weather. tonight was supposed to be a side by side look at how the 2024 gop nomination is taking shape. it clashed between trump between and ron desantis. desantis is carrying on despite not officially throwing his hat into the race, while trump postponed his rally. however, nbc has exclusive reporting tonight about the governor s political operation set to move into its new headquarters this monday. when that happens, desantis must file paperwork to run within 15 da
Welcome back to the weekend. Week two of the election first trial wrapped with a bombshell. Under redirect from the prosecution, former the National Enquirer david pecker admitted he brought former playbook model Karen Mcdougal story about her affair with to influence the election. The story says would have been gold if it had been published. He also detailed conversations he had with white house staffers after Trump Took Office about extending mcdougals agreement. And joining us now to discuss it all is New York Times Investigative Reporter Susanne Craig and Senior Correspondent Laura Jarrett. I was reading all yawls notes all week. That means my friend Laura Jarrett was slower to respond to text message. We have been watching this breathlessly but there are a lot of folks not watching it with the same level of detail. If someone was not tuned in all week what would you tell them what the top line of what happened . The top line is a man who has no donald trump for the better part of
rights. on monday, donald trump was called to the stand to testify in a 250 million dollar civil fraud trial, that could break up his entire family s business empire. predictably, he was combative as a witness. he often gave long winded responses, and he avoided answering questions directly. instead, he took the opportunity to disparage laetitia james, the attorney general who brought the lawsuit, and arthur engoron, the judge presiding over the case who had ot punishment against the company. now on monday, angwin had asked the presidents attorneys to control their client while trump was on the stand. at one point, when asked about one of his properties, he declared, quote, i m not a windmill person. interestingly, no one had asked him anything about windmills. during another line of questioning about his financial statements from 2020, one trump began to reply, quote, i was so busy in the white house with china, russia, and keeping the country safe, at which point the lawyer