2024 presidential election live updates: Poll shows Trump and Kamala in a dead heat… but a candidate leading in a crucial swing state

Ask any of the Donald Trump fans at his Wednesday night Long Island rally whether he should debate Kamala Harris again and the the answer is unanimous: Yes.

‘I think you should go for it,’ said Andrew Peters, a 49-year-old bodyshop owner, wearing a ‘F**k Hamas’ T-shirt. ‘What’s he got to lose?’

Trump has repeatedly ruled out the idea after declaring himself the victor of last week’s televised clash.

But a J.L. Partners poll for DailyMail.com reveals that American voters are overwhelmingly in favor of seeing the two candidates pit their wits against each for a second time, including a clear majority of Trump’s own supporters.

The survey of 1000 likely voters found that 63 percent said they should meet again on the debate stage.

Only 19 percent said there was no need.

When just Republicans were taken into account, 54 percent wanted a second debate. And that grew to 59 percent of people who said they intended to vote for Trump himself in November.

A House Foreign Affairs Committee majority spokesperson said that Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is giving Secretary of Sate Antony Blinken another week to show up for testimony on the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Blinken was legally compelled to appear for a public hearing on September 19, pursuant to a September 3 subpoena.

The spokesperson told DailyMail.com:

In an additional effort to accommodate the secretary’s travel schedule, [Chairman McCaul] issued a superseding subpoena for his appearance on September 24th, when the secretary is back from the Middle East.

He hopes Secretary Blinken complies with the superseding subpoena and shows up to provide answers for his role in the withdrawal. Otherwise, he will move forward with marking up the resolution holding him in contempt of Congress.

Former President Donald Trump is trailing Vice President Kamala Harris in two crucial battleground states, while a third state remains a toss-up.

Trump won all three so-called ‘blue wall’ states over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, delivering him an Electoral College victory.

In 2020, President Joe Biden flipped the three states back to the Democratic column.

Harris now has a six-point lead in Pennsylvania – 51 percent to 45 percent – with Green Party hopeful Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver garnering 1 percent each.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

While twice as many Pennsylvania debate-watchers say that Kamala Harris won against Donald Trump, the two remain in a split race in the battleground swing state.

One week after the candidate’s first showdown, Harris remains ahead of Trump by just 1 percentage point among registered and likely voters – 48 percent to 47 percent, according to a new Washington Post poll.

The statistically insignificant gap shows that these swing state voters are not swayed by Harris’ debate performance.

It underscores that most voters have already made up their minds and there is little the 2024 candidates can do before November to convince them otherwise.

More than 8 in 10 registered voters in the Keystone State say they watched at least some of the debate between Trump and Harris on September 10.

Of those who tuned in, 54 percent said Harris won, 27 percent said Trump won and 17 percent said neither was victorious.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Despite Kamala Harris’ commanding debate performance against Donald Trump earlier this month, polls have not reflected the vice president receiving any bump since then.

The deadlock between Trump and Harris remains pretty consistent nationally both before and after their debate on September 10.

Harris has kept her statistically insignificant advantage over Trump since the first polls of her versus the former president came out in early August.

In Pennsylvania, which is one of the most important battleground states to win the presidency in November, Harris edges over Trump by 4 percent – 50 percent to 46 percent.

Former President Donald Trump said Wedesday that when he left the stage last week he thought he had the ‘best debate’ and didn’t challenge the moderators because he ‘wanted to be elegant.’

Trump recapped his showdown last Tuesday against Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News’ late night show Gutfeld.

While most polls showed that viewers believed Harris had definitively won last week’s debate in Philadelphia, Trump admitted he came away from it with a different impression.

‘And I walked off of that stage and I thought I had the best debate. And I was very unfairly treated by the anchor. I’m not fans of those guys anymore. And his hair was better five years ago,’ Trump said of ABC News’ David Muir. ‘That happens. That happens with the clock.’

Trump noted how he believed he had been considered the debate GOAT – greatest of all time – up until that point and complained that Muir and his co-moderator Linsey Davis fact-checked him ‘nine times or 11 times’ and never corrected Harris.

Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is planning to visit the city at the center off false migrants-eating pet claims within the next two weeks, as he tries to keep immigration at the heart of the election battle.

His supporters roared as he cracked an off-color joke about visiting Springfield, Ohio, during a rally on Long Island.

‘You may never see me again,’ he said to the delight of thousands of people packed into the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, who chanted ‘Save the cats.’

‘But that’s OK, you gotta do what you gotta do.’

Unfounded claims about Haitian migrants in the city eating cats and other pets have circulated in the dark recesses of the internet for weeks.

But they blew up last week when Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, spread a baseless rumor that migrants were preying on cats.