US election live: Kamala Harris more trusted than Donald Trump on the economy, says poll
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Good morning US politics readers. More Americans trust Kamala Harris with the US economy than they do Donald Trump, according to a new poll that suggests the former president losing the advantage he had over Joe Biden.
The poll, conducted by the Financial Times and the University of Michigan, found that 42% of voters trust Harris on economic issues – one percentage point ahead of Trump.
The survey “marks a sharp change in voter sentiment following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the White House race” last month, the Financial Times reported. While Trump’s numbers were unchanged from last month’s poll results, Harris’s standing was a seven percentage point improvement compared with Biden’s numbers in July.
But three weeks into her presidential campaign, Harris has yet to unveil her economic policy platform, and Democrats are warning the Democratic presidential candidate and her running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz,that they must solidify their economic message before Republicans bring it back to the forefront of the campaign. On Saturday, Harris said she would be releasing an official economic policy platform in the coming days. She told reporters:
It’ll be focused on the economy and what we need to do to bring down costs and also strengthen the economy.
Here’s what else we’re watching today:
The Senate and House are out.
8pm ET. Donald Trump will sit down for a conversation with the tech billionaire and owner of X,Elon Musk, who has become a vocal supporter of the Republican presidential nominee.
Donald Trump plans to sue the US justice department for $100m for executing a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago estate to retrieve classified government documents, according to a report.
The former president’s lawyers intend to sue the department for its conduct during the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago on 8 August 2022, amid the federal investigation into his alleged retention of classified records, Fox News reported on Monday.
Trump’s legal team will argue that the DoJ was engaged in a “clear intent to engage in political persecution” when it searched his property, the report says. It quotes Trump attorney Daniel Epstein as saying:
What President Trump is doing here is not just standing up for himself – he is standing up for all Americans who believe in the rule of law and believe that you should hold the government accountable when it wrongs you.
When Elon Musk took over as owner of Twitter, researchers and elections officials feared a rampant spread of misinformation that would lead to threats and harassment and undermine democracy.
Their fears came true – and Musk himself has emerged as one of its main drivers.
The tech billionaire has cast doubt on machines that tabulate votes and mail ballots, both common features of US elections. He has repeatedly claimed there is rampant non-citizen voting, a frequent Republican talking point in this election.
Musk, the ultra-wealthy owner of Tesla and other tech companies, is scheduled to interview Donald Trump on Monday, where they are sure to find common ground on these election conspiracy theories.
Musk is a vocal supporter of the former US president and current Republican nominee. He has restored the Twitter/X accounts of people banned under previous ownership, dismantling the platform’s fact-checking and safety features. Trump’s X account, which was suspended after the January 6 insurrection, was restored as well, though Trump has not returned actively to the platform.
Donald Trump will sit down with Elon Musk for an interview tonight, nearly a month after the tech billionaire and owner of X officially endorsed the Republican presidential candidate.
Trump will participate in the interview on X, scheduled for 8pm ET on Monday, from his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida while Musk will be in Austin, Texas.
According to Musk, the interview will be “unscripted with no limits on subject matter, so should be highly entertaining!”
Live conversation on 𝕏 with @realDonaldTrump & me at 8pm ET tomorrow
Following Musk’s takeover of X, formerly Twitter, he restored Trump’s account, which was suspended by the platform’s former owners following the 6 January 2021 attack on Congress by his supporters.
The Financial Times/the University of Michigan poll, which found that voters felt more positive about Kamala Harris’s handling of the US economy than Joe Biden says “as much about how badly Biden was doing as it does about how well Harris is doing”, Erik Gordon, a professor at the university, told the paper.
The poll is good news for previously-anxious Democrats, but their worries aren’t over because voters still see themselves better off with [Donald] Trump as president, and most voters think of their interests first and grand policy questions second.
Good morning US politics readers. More Americans trust Kamala Harris with the US economy than they do Donald Trump, according to a new poll that suggests the former president losing the advantage he had over Joe Biden.
The poll, conducted by the Financial Times and the University of Michigan, found that 42% of voters trust Harris on economic issues – one percentage point ahead of Trump.
The survey “marks a sharp change in voter sentiment following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the White House race” last month, the Financial Times reported. While Trump’s numbers were unchanged from last month’s poll results, Harris’s standing was a seven percentage point improvement compared with Biden’s numbers in July.
But three weeks into her presidential campaign, Harris has yet to unveil her economic policy platform, and Democrats are warning the Democratic presidential candidate and her running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz,that they must solidify their economic message before Republicans bring it back to the forefront of the campaign. On Saturday, Harris said she would be releasing an official economic policy platform in the coming days. She told reporters:
It’ll be focused on the economy and what we need to do to bring down costs and also strengthen the economy.
Here’s what else we’re watching today:
The Senate and House are out.
8pm ET. Donald Trump will sit down for a conversation with the tech billionaire and owner of X,Elon Musk, who has become a vocal supporter of the Republican presidential nominee.
