Trump vs Harris live: Harris leads Trump in latest polls but they are neck and neck in three crucial swing states
Three swing states hang in the balance as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’s presidential campaigns battle it out with less than nine weeks to go until election day.
A new CNN poll found that the Democratic presidential nominee currently leads her Republican rival in four battlegrounds states, taking Wisconsin (50 per cent to 44 per cent) and Michigan (48 per cent to 43 per cent).
However, in Georgia and Nevada, the vice president is said to lead by just one point – 48 per cent to 47 per cent in each. The pair are tied at 47 per cent in Pennsylvania, while Trump leads in Arizona 49 per cent to 44 per cent, as per the survey.
Trump has again been denied a bid to move his criminal his hush money case from state to federal court, after District Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected Trump’s latest long-shot request on Tuesday. The former president hoped to overturn the guilty verdict and postpone his sentencing in New York on September 18.
Harris is back on the campaign trail in New Hampshire on Wednesday and is expected to propose an expansion of tax incentives for small businesses from $5,000 to $50,000.
A convicted murderer whoselife sentence was commuted by Donald Trump on the last day of his presidency has recently been convicted of attacking his wife.
Jaime Davidson was serving a life sentence in a New York jail for his role in a 1990 robbery that led to the death of Wallie Howard Jr., an undercover police officer. Davidson, while not present, planned the robbery that targeted one of his rival drug dealers. Trump, in the final 24 hours of his presidency, commuted Davidson’s sentence.
Katie Hawkinson reports on what happened next.
Davidson was sentenced to three months in jail in May
The Justice Department has announced the