US election: 10 days left – What polls say Harris and Trump are up to | News about the 2024 US election

Ten days before Election Day, the race for the White House between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remains very close in battleground states across the country.

The candidates Harris, Trump and their deputies are going into the election campaign with full force.

Singer Beyonce Knowles, her former Destiny's Child bandmate Kelly Rowland and country singer Willie Nelson all tried to use their star power to win voters for Harris in Texas.

Trump, meanwhile, met with podcaster Joe Rogan for a three-hour interview. He then traveled to Michigan, where the delay meant he spoke late to a thinned-out crowd.

What are the latest updates from the surveys?

The latest national New York Times-Siena College poll from October 20-23, 2024 found Harris and Trump tied at 48 percent nationally. The remaining 4 percent are undecided.

Among likely female voters, Harris has a 54 percent to 42 percent lead over Trump. But the former president makes up for it among male voters, with 55 percent supporting Harris versus 41 percent.

Harris received the highest approval rating from voters ages 18 to 29, at 55 percent, compared to Trump's 43 percent, while Trump leads among voters ages 45 to 64, 51 percent to 44 percent.

Worryingly for Harris, 61 percent of respondents said the country was on the wrong path, while 27 percent said it was on the right path.

Meanwhile, poll tracker FiveThirtyEight, which averages several national polls, shows Harris with a razor-thin lead of 48 percent to Trump's 46.6 percent. But their lead of 1.4 percentage points is smaller than the 1.8 percent earlier this week.

While national polls provide valuable insight into voter sentiment, the ultimate winner is determined by the Electoral College, which reflects the results in each state.

The seven key swing states that could determine the election are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Together, these states account for 93 — or a third — of the 270 electoral colleges needed to win the election.

According to FiveThirtyEight's latest polling average, Trump has a 1 percent lead in North Carolina and a 2 percent lead in Arizona and Georgia. And in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Harris and Trump are separated by less than half a percentage point, with Trump narrowly ahead in Pennsylvania and Nevada and Harris ahead by a narrow margin in Michigan and Wisconsin.

All results are within the margin of error and the outcome of the vote can swing in either direction.

What was Kamala Harris up to on Friday?

Harris campaigned with musicians Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Willie Nelson in Houston, Texas.

During the stop, Harris emphasized her support for abortion rights as she sought to contrast with Trump and make gains among female voters.

Texas has not supported a Democratic president since 1976, and Republican Trump is almost certain to win the state's 40 Electoral College votes.

But Democrats are betting this will provide Harris with a powerful backdrop to talk about abortion rights in the final days before the Nov. 5 election. The state has passed some of the strictest anti-abortion regulations in the country under Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

What was Donald Trump up to on Friday?

Trump was also campaigning in Texas on Friday and made a stop in Austin to tape an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Rogan is arguably the most popular podcaster in the United States, with tens of millions of social media followers, most of them men. Rogan's podcast has 17.5 million subscribers on YouTube alone and 14 million on Spotify. According to Media Monitors, the average age of his listeners is 24 years old.

In his interview with Rogan, Trump again indicated that he supports eliminating the income tax and replacing lost revenue with tariffs.

Trump then traveled to a rally in Traverse City, Michigan, where he addressed Harris' struggles with the state's large Arab-American population, which could decide the outcome of a very close race.

According to the Arab News/YouGov poll released Monday, Trump leads Harris 45 percent to 43 percent among Arab Americans. There are still two weeks left until voters elect the next US president. Large swaths of the population are angry with the Biden administration, of which Harris is a part, for his unwavering support of Israel's war on Gaza and Lebanon.

“Also, Kamala is in complete free fall with the Arab and Muslim populations in Michigan. It’s in free fall,” Trump said. “They sent their jobs abroad, brought crime into their cities, and tonight it's like a powder keg about to explode in the Middle East.” People are being killed on a scale we've never seen before have.”

He also pointed to Harris' unlikely alliance with former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is running for vice president. Cheney, who has a long-running feud with Trump, is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, a central figure in the 2003 Iraq invasion. “And why should Muslims support Kamala when she embraces Muslim-hater Liz Cheney?” Trump asked and spoke to the crowd.

What's next for the Harris and Trump campaigns?

Harris will campaign with former first lady Michelle Obama in the Michigan city of Kalamazoo on Saturday.

The campaign rally will be Michelle Obama's first campaign event for Harris.

Saturday is the first day of early voting statewide in Michigan.

Meanwhile, Trump is scheduled to hold several events in Pennsylvania on Saturday but will begin his day with a rally in Michigan.

Trump's Vice President JD Vance will make a campaign stop in Atlanta, Georgia, before traveling to Erie and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.