Shock poll shows candidate with MAJOR surge in key swing state that could decide election

With 39 days to go until Election Day, a new Fox News poll revealed Kamala Harris is taking the lead in the state of Georgia, one of the key swing states .

The vice president received 51 per cent of support from registered and likely voters in the southern state, while Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received 48 per cent.

Harris was up 50 per cent to 48 percent among registered voters.

The poll also revealed that more Georgians see Harris as the candidate who will help the middle class and protect democracy by a three point margin each at 52 percent to 45 per cent.

In regards to the issue of abortion, Harris takes the lead with 18 points.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday said Israel's objective in Lebanon was 'legitimate' as the Israel Defense Forces warned residents of several Beirut neighborhoods to evacuate.

The events of the past week and the past few hours underscore what a precarious moment this is for the Middle East and for the world. Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorism the way it does so matters. The choices that all parties make in the coming days will determine which path this region is on, with profound consequences for its people now and possibly for years to come.

He spoke after the IDF struck Hezbollah's headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut with several huge explosions targeting the group's leader.

He described Israel's objective as 'an important and legitimate one.'

It's creating an environment that's secure enough to enable people to return home.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. set aside headlines about his relationship with a reporter 40 years his junior to introduce Donald Trump at a campaign event in Michigan on Friday.

And it was exactly the wild ride you might expect from a man whose presidential campaign included stories about dumping dead bears in Central Park, brain worms, and cutting the head off a whale.

He warned about plunging sperm counts in teenagers, delivered a no-nonsense account of Trump's meeting with the Ukrainian president and was interrupted by a telephone call from his doctor.

The 70-year-old, who pushed antivax conspiracy theories, accused the Democratic Party of siding with Big Pharma, Big Agriculture and Big Food.

'When my uncle was president, we spent zero on chronic disease,' he said.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Following Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon's capital, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson warned that major war could be imminent.

'We're on the verge of World War Three,' he said on Fox News after Beirut was struck by Israel.

Israeli Defense Forces confirmed the attack targeted top Hezbollah officials who have been targeting Israel for years.

'This is the most dangerous time since World War Two, and you have to have steady hands at the wheel,' Johnson said.

'The reason we're in this situation is because of the way that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have handled this.'

The U.S. announced an agreement with the Iraqi government Friday to wrap up the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by next year, with U.S. troops departing some bases that they have long occupied during a two-decade-long military presence in the country.

But the Biden administration refused to provide details on how many of the approximately 2,500 U.S. troops still serving in Iraq will remain there or acknowledge it will mark a full withdrawal from the country .

'I think it´s fair to say that, you know, our footprint is going to be changing within the country,' Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters Friday without providing specifics.

The announcement comes at a particularly contentious time for the Middle East, with escalating conflict between Israel and two Iranian-backed militant groups - Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza - threatening a broader regional war.

Bases housing U.S. forces and contractors have been regularly targeted by Iran-backed militias over the last several years, and those attacks intensified late last year and early this spring after the Israel-Hamas war broke out nearly a year ago.

(with reporting from the Associated Press)

Donald Trump promised Friday that he would prosecute Google if he won election to the White House, claiming that the search engine only shows 'bad stories' about him and good stories about his opponent Kamala Harris.

He offered no further evidence in his post on Truth Social.

Soon after Trump survived an assassination attempt in Jully, billionaire Elon Musk accused Google of having a search ban on the former president

It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some made up for this purpose while, at the same time, only revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Joe Biden said the U.S. had no knowledge of Israel’s strike on several residential buildings south of Beirut, the capitol of Lebanon, on Friday afternoon.

‘The United States had no knowledge of or participation in the IDF action,’ he told reporters.

‘We're gathering information,’ he added. ‘Need to get more information.’

The Israeli Defense Forces claim the central headquarters of Hezbollah was underneath the buildings they struck.

The target of the strike was Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, according to reports, although it’s unclear if he was hit.

At least 2 people were killed and 76 wounded in the airstrikes.

Asked how concerned he was about the escalation of fighting in the Middle East, Biden responded: ‘I'm always concerned about that.’

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S.-Mexico border near Douglas, Arizona, on Friday, and a local sheriff who will greet her at the airport revealed a message he will give her.

Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels, who has served in his role as a border town lawman since 2012, told DailyMail.com that his home has been ravaged by President Joe Biden and VP Harris's border policies.

He described how the rural area has been swamped with deaths, tragedies and crime related to the border, and that the Biden-Harris agenda has caused irreparable damage.

And new U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) data obtained by DailyMail.com Friday shows over 600,000 migrants with criminal histories are loose within the country.

But Dannels hopes to mend the divide between the Republican-leaning area and the Democratic VP, saying he plans to give her a gift at the airport when she arrives.

American security officials are still tracking Iranian plots to kill Donald Trump and other high-profile figures, according to the nation's top law enforcement officer.

Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered an update on Friday about Tehran's efforts to disrupt the 2024 election, as charges against three members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (I.R.G.C.) were revealed.

'There are few actors in this world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran, state sponsor of terrorism,' he said.

'Iran's malign activities are wide ranging.

'The US government is intensely tracking Iran's lethal plotting against current and former US government officials, including former President Trump.'

According to a new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll, Kamala Harris has a very thin lead over Donald Trump in nearly every swing state.

According to the findings, she leads by 7 points in Nevada, 5 points in Pennsylvania, 3 points in Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin and 2 points in North Carolina.

Trump and Kamala are tied in Georgia.

Its a sign that Election Day could be a nail-biter as the results are within the statistical margin of error.

A grand jury indictment unsealed Friday charges three members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps with carrying out a ‘wide-ranging hacking campaign’ that targeted former President Donald Trump.

The indictment calls it part of an effort to ‘stoke discord, erode confidence in the U.S. electoral process’ and acquire information about unidentified ‘U.S. officials.’ AG Merrick Garland echoed the same language at a press briefing Friday.

It says in May 2024 they were able to gain access to personal accounts of an unidentified ‘U.S. Presidential campaign’ through a spearfishing tactic. It says they engaged in a ‘hack and leak’ operation, after multiple outlets reported receiving an opposition file on Trump running mate J.D. Vance.

The IRGC members accused of the scheme are Masoud Jalili, Sayyed Ali Aghamiri, and Yasar Balaghi. All three defendants live in Iran, making any trial unlikely. The indictment says they relied on fraudulent email accounts and impersonated people who were publicly known, including former U.S. government officials. The U.S. has already designated the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization, Trump said following a security briefing that Iran is trying to assassinate him.

Garland said the three men charged in their own words admitted 'they were attempting to undermine Former President Trump’s campaign.' He said the hacked communications were sent unsolicited to members of President Biden's campaign this summer, and that according to intelligence there is currently no information the recipients opened the emails.

'As the intelligence community has reported, we are seeing increasingly aggressive Iranian cyber activity during this election cycle,' Garland said.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are running neck and neck in North Carolina, according to a new poll.

The CNN/SSRS survey found the two candidates each have the support of 48 percent of likely voters in a state that will be crucial in the election.

North Carolina backed Barack Obama in 2008 but has gone to the Republican candidate in each of the three presidential elections since then,

A poll in Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, which awards one of the state's electoral college votes, found that Harris had a comfortable lead there - 53 percent to 42 percent.

Israel claimed it had struck Hezbollah's central headquarters under residential buildings in Beirut this afternoon after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue the fight against the 'terror organization'.

Huge clouds of smoke towered over Beirut this afternoon following reported airstrikes in the Lebanese capital.

Residents said they heard multiple blasts on Friday, believed to be from Israeli 'shelling', according to journalist Mounir Rabih, on the ground.

Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV reported that Israeli strikes had destroyed four buildings in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

The IDF subsequently confirmed it had attacked Hezbollah in Da'aheh, Beirut on its social media pages.

'As of this time, there is no change in the directives of the Home Front Command. We will update any changes immediately on the official platforms of the Home Front Command,' it said.

Reports of attacks came minutes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a defiant speech at the UN General Assembly, vowing to continue striking Hezbollah in Lebanon until Israel achieves 'total victory'.

'My country is at war, fighting for its life,' Netanyahu said in his impassioned speech at the UN General Assembly.

'We must defend ourselves against these savage murderers. Our enemies seek not only to destroy us, they seek to destroy our common civilization and return all of us to a dark age of tyranny and terror,' he told delegates.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

A new survey asked hundreds of small businesses who they believe would be a better presidential candidate, and the results weren't close.

With just over a month until the November election and with ballots already in the hands of voters the Job Creators Network Foundation (JCNF) polled 400 small business employers.

These business operators largely had the same answer: Donald Trump.

Former President Trump holds a 12-point edge over Vice President Kamala Harris among small businesses nationwide.

Specifically, 51 percent of employers responded the ex-president will do a better job helping small businesses while 39 percent said Harris.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel used his speech before the UN General Assembly to rail against the body as an 'anti-semitic swamp,' to warn Iran not to attack his country and to give mixed signals on whether a ceasefire deal was possible.

As the fighting increased in the Middle East, Netanyahu took to the lectern to address a nearly empty chamber. Many diplomats walked out in protest as he entered the great hall to speak from the rostrum.

As Netanyahu took the stage, there was enough ruckus in the audience that the presiding diplomat had to shout, 'Order, please.'

Visibly angry during his remarks, Netanyahu almost shouted from the lectern as he slammed the UN for passing resolutions against Israel, accusing the governing body of a double standard.

'What hypocrisy, what a double standard, what a joke. So the UN's so silly. All the speeches you heard today, all the hostility directed at Israel this year - it's not about Gaza. It's about Israel,' he said.

'It's always been about Israel, about Israel's very existence and I say to, until Israel, until the Jewish state, is treated like other nations, until this anti-semitic swamp is drained, the UN will be viewed by fair-minded people everywhere as nothing more than a contemptuous farce.'

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Zelensky Friday, making most of his public comments about his infamous 2019 phone call with Zelensky, and thanked Zelensky for backing him up.

‘He could have grandstanded and played cute, and he didn't do that. He said President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong.’ Speaking at Trump Tower, Trump said Zelensky was ‘like a piece of steel’ during what Trump called the ‘impeachment hoax.’

Speaking alongside Zelensky, Trump also said he had a ‘great relationship, with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and claimed if he wins the election he can work out an end to the war before he takes office January 20th – a posture that would have him negotiating during the end of President Joe Biden’s administration.

‘I think we have common view that the war in Ukraine has to be stopped and Putin can’t win and Ukraine have to prevail,’ Zelensky said in his own comment.

Speaking about the war, Trump said: ‘It has to end. At some point it has to end. He's gone through hell. His country has gone through hell like few countries have ever … like it's happened anywhere. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. It's a terrible situation, and I will say I've had a great relationship.

During the December 2019 comments Trump was referencing, Zelensky did not say Trump absolutely nothing wrong, although he did say there was no 'quid pro quo.' Democratic impeachment managers said there was one when Trump sought an investigation of the Bidens while Ukraine was seeking military help. Zelensky told Time magazine at the time he 'never talked to the president from the position of a quid pro quo,' while also referencing the threats his country was facing. 'We’re at war. If you’re our strategic partner, then you can’t go blocking anything for us. I think that’s just about fairness. It’s not about a quid pro quo. It just goes without saying.'

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told Donald Trump not to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday just ahead of their sit-down.

The firebrand decried Zelensky for taking U.S. dollars amid his country's war with Russia.

Greene's plea fell on deaf ears, however, as the ex-president is now in a meeting with Zelensky.

Trump even offered some praise of Zelensky in a presser before the meeting, thanking him for backing up the former president in a past impeachment scandal.

Donald Trump running mate J.D. Vance dunks on the former president in newly unearthed direct messages that date from Trump’s last year in office.

One message, obtained from the recipient by the Washington Post, has Vance knocking Trump on his signature tariffs, which are central to Trump’s reelection campaign.

‘Trump has just so thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism (excepting a disjointed China policy),’ Vance wrote in February 2020. In another, he wrote that Trump ‘will probably lose’ – a prediction that proved correct.

The messages add to a bountiful public record of Vance’s prior slams on Trump, who he has called ‘reprehensible’ and ‘America’s Hitler’ when he was previously a member of a school fo Trump critics. But many of those comments are from the 2016 period, when a raft of prominent Republicans were going after Trump.

A Vance spokesman didn’t deny the comments but said they were aimed at ‘establishment Republicans.’ The campaign also blasted the paper for not sharing the identify of the recipient.

Donald Trump is leading Kamala Harris in yet another Arizona poll, this time grabbing a 6 percent lead that exceeds his edge in polling averages.

Trump leads Harris by six points, 48 to 42, in the new USA Today / Suffolk University poll.

Trump has led in multiple polls over a period of weeks in the state. The result comes as Harris prepared to visit the border and rolled out ad stressing efforts to control the border.

The poll has Harris with a 47 percent plurality among Hispanic voters, with Trump garnering 35 percent support.

Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego leads Trump ally Kari Lake 47 to 41 in a Suffolk poll of the hot Senate race there, in a state with Republican leanings that Joe Biden carried in 2020.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Kamala Harris is trying to turn the tables on Donald Trump’s criticism of her on migration issues with a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border and a dramatic new campaign ad.

In the 30-second spot, she takes ownership of the issue as the narrator declares ‘she will secure our border.’

‘Kamala Harris has never backed down from a challenge,’ the ad begins, showing footage of Harris as California attorney general, when she prosecuted border issues. It details her plan to hire more border agents and increase technology.

And it ends with this message: ‘We need a leader will a real plan to fix our border. And that’s Kamala Harris.

Donald Trump knows why world leaders are clamoring for meetings at Trump Tower: It is because he is favorite to win November's election.

And he cited the DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners election model which on Wednesday gave him a 55 percent chance of beating Kamala Harris, who is on 45 percent, as evidence of his rise in the polls.

He made his comments as he ended a press conference on the ground floor of Trump Tower.

The former president announced that he was due to meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer later in the evening and was then going to sit down with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky on Friday morning.

'Many of the leaders have been calling me. They wanna meet,' he said.

'I guess they see the polling. We are leading in the polls very seriously.

'The Daily Mail just came out with a very big poll and we're leading by 10.'

In fact, our election model crunches all the latest polling numbers, along with decades of voting figures and economic statistics, to try to forecast who has the best chance of winning the electoral college.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Kamala Harris will tackle her most politically vulnerable issue on Friday when she visits the U.S.-Mexico border.

Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have pummelled Harris for months on border policy and the high number of migrant crossings.

Now she will try to turn the tables and take control of the issue.

A senior campaign official said Harris will call ‘for tougher border security measures in a major speech.’

She attack Trump for putting his political interests ahead of a public solution, repeating her criticism of him for lobbying his allies in Congress for killing a border security bill because he feared, if the legislation was successful, it would hurt his presidential campaign.

‘The American people deserve a President who cares more about border security than playing political games,’ she will say.

She will also note border crossings have dropped. After the legislation died on Capitol Hill, the Biden administration announced rules that barred migrants from being granted asylum when U.S. officials deem that the southern border is overwhelmed. Since then, arrests for illegal border crossings have fallen.

Trump pre-emptively attacked her visit on Thursday during a press conference in New York, when he questioned her decision to travel there.

‘Why would she go to the border now, playing right into the hand of her opponent?’ he asked.

‘She keeps talking about how she supposedly wants to fix the border. We would merely ask: Why didn’t she do it four years ago?,’ he said.

Harris will visit a section of the 2,000-mile border in Douglas, Ariz., a key battleground state. She will meet with border patrol agents and call for more resources for them. She will also push propose new detection machines for fentanyl at border entry ports.

It will be her first visit to the border as a presidential candidate, and her first since 2021 when President Joe Biden charged her with finding the root causes of migration. Republicans have dubbed her the ‘border czar,’ a title her team disputes.

A Republican lawmaker is floating a bombshell new theory that Donald Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was actually shot multiple times.

The revelation of the 'second bullet' theory came at the end of a congressional hearing Thursday aimed at investigating the deadly assassination attempt on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Louisiana Republican Rep. Clay Higgins asked Dr. Ariel Goldschmidt, the medical examiner of Allegheny County who conducted the autopsy on Thomas Matthew Crooks, if a second bullet could have struck Crooks.

Republicans are ripping Vice President Kamala Harris' second scheduled trip to the U.S.-Mexico border as an 'election-year stunt,' saying she has been central to orchestrating U.S. immigration woes.

The VP is expected to visit the border wall in Arizona during a planned trip to the state on Friday, CNN first reported.

Harris previously visited El Paso, Texas, in June 2021 where she went to a Border Patrol processing center and screening area for migrants with asylum claims.

But she never toured the actual border, and has received harsh criticism from Republicans ever since for shirking her role as Biden's 'border czar.'

With her second trip to the border coming just weeks before Election Day and as immigration and border security concerns continually rank as a top worry among voters, GOP lawmakers say the trip is disingenuous after years of inaction.

And voters won't easily forget, they warn.