Latest news on the Harris and Trump election polls

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Vice President Harris with a slight lead nationally over former President Donald Trump.
Trump is campaigning in the swing state of North Carolina on Tuesday.
Harris was scheduled to record interviews with NBC News and Telemundo.

Two weeks until election day.

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll on Tuesday shows Vice President Kamala Harris with a narrow national lead over former President Donald Trump in an incredibly close race.

Harris and Trump are spending the final phase of the 2024 election courting voters across the country. Harris campaigned Monday with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who has become one of Trump's most vocal critics.

The former president held several events in North Carolina, a crucial swing state that could decide the race for the White House. Trump is holding another rally in Greensboro, North Carolina on Tuesday evening.

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What religious views does Kamala Harris have?

Harris identifies as a Baptist – a major Protestant Christian denomination. She told the Associated Press in 2020 that she attends services at the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco.

However, her religious background is quite mixed. Her father is Christian and her mother is Hindu. Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jewish.

− Sudiksha Kochi

Harris targets Latino men with small business boot camps and a pledge to hire more police officers

Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday released a new list of proposals to help Latino men get ahead economically.

Harris said she would support legislation allowing construction workers and apprentices to deduct tools and other equipment from their taxes, which her campaign estimated would affect 2 million people.

The vice president said he would fund “high-quality bilingual education and English language acquisition programs” and increase the number of college and career counselors in lower-income schools, while also funding small business boot camps for aspiring entrepreneurs.

The plan includes promises to “end the police shortage” by hiring 100,000 more police officers nationwide.

–Francesca Chambers

Presidential elections are stressful, but Vice President Kamala Harris says she's not using a single possible wellness technique to ease anxiety during her presidential campaign: marijuana edibles.

The issue came up during a town hall-like exchange between Harris and journalist Maria Shriver on Monday in Royal Oak, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

“Everyone I talk to says, 'I have to turn off the news – I can't read anything, I meditate, I do yoga. I'm so worried… I'm eating jelly beans.' Everything possible. “What are you doing?” Shriver asked, seeming to be referring to cannabis gummies.

Laughing, Harris replied, “I don’t eat jelly beans.”

− Karissa Waddick and Darren Samuelsohn

More: Kamala Harris talks about election stress: “I don’t eat gummy bears”

Donald Trump, who is leading the polls among male voters, invoked the masculinity of a golf legend over the weekend, peppering his speeches with profanities and attending an NFL game to ensure he retains this key constituency.

It's a strategy designed to further excite the Republican presidential candidate's most ardent supporters and emphasize turnout among low-propensity male voters, in a hypermasculine style that his critics see as a corrosive version of denote masculinity.

Meanwhile, he barely nods to — and perhaps angers — the swing voters of suburban women who were once considered key campaign targets.

− Zac Anderson

More: Crude talk and the NFL: Trump expands his lead among male voters

How many days until election day?

There are still about 13 days until Election Day, November 5th.

Many states have already begun early voting in person or by mail. Numerous national and state polls show the 2024 race to be very close, with both candidates essentially tied.

Harris and Trump's campaign have pressed ahead with more events and interviews over the past two weeks.

– Sudiksha Kochi

Donald Trump has vowed to initiate a “mass deportation” of at least 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States if he returns to the White House.

He made a similar promise during his first term. It didn't work out after he ran into logistical and legal obstacles. Next time, experts say, everything could be different.

A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll found that 45% of respondents support Trump's mass deportation proposal and 49% oppose it, with 4% undecided. The poll of 1,000 likely voters, conducted on landlines and cellphones Oct. 14-18, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

A second, more experienced Trump administration will know “how to effectively use enormous bureaucracy to its advantage,” said César García Hernández, a law professor at Ohio State University and author of “Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants.” .

− Lauren Villagran, Bart Jansen and Aysha Bagchi

More: Donald Trump has promised “mass deportation”. It would cost billions.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are tied in the presidential election polls. The Real Clear Politics average of 2024 polls puts Harris ahead of Trump by just 0.9 percentage points.

In some of the key swing states like Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania, it's even closer. For example, in the Wisconsin polling average, Trump leads Harris by 0.2 percentage points.

– Marina Pitofsky

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There are several ways to vote in the general election. Depending on where you live, you can vote early by mail or in person. You can also wait until you go to a polling place on November 5, Election Day, to cast your vote.

USA TODAY provides a breakdown of when early voting has begun or will begin in states. The first state in the country to begin voting was Alabama, which sent out mail-in ballots on September 11th. Alabama does not have early in-person voting options.

Seven states are expected to open early in-person or in-person early voting options on Monday, including Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, South Carolina and Texas.

– Sudiksha Kochi and Fernando Cervantes Jr.

What religious views does Kamala Harris have?

Harris targets Latino men with small business boot camps and a pledge to hire more police officers

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