2024 presidential race: Shock poll reveals weakness for Kamala Harris

A stunning new survey finds that Vice President Kamala Harris is tanking with a key voting bloc she will likely need to turn around soon if she wants to beat former President Donald Trump.

When it comes to crucial independent voters, both candidates are below 50 percent, but a new Gallup survey finds that just 35% of independents view the vice president favorably, while 60% view her unfavorably.

That puts her 25 points underwater with the very voters she needs to sway.

Trump, the poll finds, has 44% favorability among independents, against 53% unfavorable.

The survey of 1,007 American adults conducted between September 3 and 15, found overall that 46% of respondents view Trump favorably, and 53% view him unfavorably. Harris is viewed favorably by 44% and unfavorably by 54% of voters overall.

If there is a postive to any of the results for Harris it lies with her running mate compared to Trump's.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has a positive favorable rating with the overall group (41%-40%) and is close to having the same with independents (37%-40%). Ohio Senator J.D. Vance is underwater by 11 points with all respondents (36%-47%) and 18 points with independents.

But, as they say, running mates historically do not win elections.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Jill Biden will lead the U.S. delegation to Mexico for the inauguration of its first female president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the White House announced.

The ceremony takes place in Mexico City on October 1st.

Pardo is an environmental engineer and climate scientist. She is the former mayor of Mexico City.

Outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was Pardo’s mentor and supported her candidacy.

She will lead a country with one of the highest murder rates against women in the world.

Police say there is no threat to former President Donald Trump's rally site on Long Island after 'explosives' were reportedly found in a car near the site.

A spokesperson for the Nassau County Police Department confirmed to DailyMail.com that 'there was a suspicious occurrence' on Wednesday ahead of Trump's speech where thousands of MAGA fans are gathering.

But there is 'no validity' to a report that there was an 'explosive device found.'

'Reports of explosives being found at the site are unfounded,' said Nassau County Commissioner of Police Patrick Ryde.

'There is a person who is being questioned who may have been training a bomb detection dog near the site. The individual with the bomb dog falsely reported explosives being found and that individual is currently being detained by police.'

The latest reports of a possible Trump security breach comes just three days after a would-be assassin was arrested after stalking the former president with a rifle as he golfed at his Palm Beach golf club.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna announced on social media that a potential shooter had threatened her office.

'My office has received a very serious shooting threat,' Luna announced on X.

She blamed the 'division and hate campaign' against Republicans and warned that someone would be killed as a result.

'I will not be threatened, intimidated, or bow down to those using violence as a means to push their agenda,' she wrote. 'We will win.'

Luna asked for prayers from her supporters.

'Hate has no place here,' she concluded.

Luna is a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

In August, a video of her modeling a MAGA branded swimsuit resurfaced online and went viral prompting her to react to the images online.

'I’m confirming that I have indeed worn swimsuits and you can tell I am biologically a woman. #MAGA,' she wrote on X.

A group of former national security figures who worked for Republican presidents have signed a letter supporting Vice President Kamala Harris for president, warning of the ‘daily chaos’ that Trump would bring to the United States.

‘We expect to disagree with Kamala Harris on many domestic and foreign policy issues, but we believe that she possesses the essential qualities to serve as President and Donald Trump does not,’ the letter reads.

The letter accuses Trump of being unworthy of the presidency, citing his role in ‘inciting’ the riots on Capitol Hill on January 6th and being susceptible to flattery by world leaders like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.

'As President, he promoted daily chaos in government, praised our enemies and undermined our allies, politicized the military and disparaged our veterans, prioritized his personal interest above American interests, and betrayed our values, democracy, and this country’s founding documents,’ the letter reads.

The letter includes signatures from Republicans including former Lousiana Rep. Charles Boustany, former Florida Rep. Dan Miller, former Rep. Barbara Comstock of Virginia, Former Rep. Charles K. Djou of Hawaii and Rep. Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma.

Many of the other signers are former ambassadors, lawyers, state department employees, and deputy or assistant advisors to more prominent figures in the national security community.

The letter admitted that many Republicans would still prefer Trump over Harris but warned that ‘[A]ny potential concerns pale in comparison to Donald Trump’s demonstrated chaotic and unethical behavior and disregard for our Republic’s time-tested principles of constitutional governance.’

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday did not refer to the latest attack against Donald Trump as an assassination attempt.

Speaking at the Aspen Cyber Summit in Washington, D.C., Wray instead said:

The FBI did release a statement on Sunday saying it was investigating the incident at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida as an assassination attempt.

Republicans are highly critical of the rhetoric claiming ‘threat to democracy’ because they claim Democrats calling the former president this is what led to two assassination attempts just 64 days apart.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

At least one of Donald Trump’s top campaign aides is not pleased with Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ latest ‘childless cat lady’ trope against Kamala Harris.

Trump 2024 Senior Advisor Bryan Lanza expressed outrage during an interview with CNN and talked about his own stepmother who he says was vital in his childhood.

Arkansas Gov. Sanders is the latest Republican to go after Harris for not having any biological kids – though she does have two stepchildren through husband Doug Emhoff.

Sanders, a mother-of-three, said on stage ahead of a town hall with Donald Trump in Detroit, Michigan on Tuesday:

A new poll for DailyMail.com revealed today that 48 percent of likely voters believe that noncitizens are voting in American elections and that 45 percent feel strongly enough that they would support a government shutdown over the issue.

But a Republican-led vote on Wednesday to tie a stopgap spending bill - the SAVE Act - to new requirements for voters to provide proof of citizenship could tank.

GOP rebels in the House are set on handing Speaker Mike Johnson a big failure with just 13 days left until a government shutdown.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and a handful of other Republicans are vowing to vote against the measure saying that it doesn't 'responsibly' fund the government.

Johnson can only afford to lose four GOP votes to get it over the finish line, putting passage in jeopardy.

Massie called Johnson's bill an 'undead but doomed zombie.'

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor in Flint, Michigan

Donald Trump hinted at how he will respond to possible interest rate cuts by the Fed, terming them ‘political’ at his Michigan town hall Tuesday night.

The former President predicted a rate cut, which could be just the latest event to jolt the presidential race, but said it would suggest problems in the economy.

‘The economy is now not good, and interest rates, you'll see, they'll do the rate cut and all the political stuff tomorrow, I think. And you know, will he do a half a point? Will he do a quarter of a point?’ he said of the independent Fed. The Board of Governors meet Wednesday.

‘But the reason is because the economy is not good. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to do it. But we're going to get interest rates down, and we got to work with our farmers,’ Trump said.

Trump nominated Fed chair Jerome Powell in 2017 but clashed with him over interest rates during his tenure. In 2018 he said the Fed was ‘going loco.’ Analysts are expecting a rate cut amid cooling inflation.

Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., was elected to chair the House Freedom Caucus after its current leader Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., was spectacularly ousted from Congress in his primary.

Harris will serve until the end of 2024, setting up another leadership election in just a few months.

The group has been a pain in Speaker Mike Johnson's side, with many far-right demands.

They are currently pushing for the SAVE Act to be attached to the short-gap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown in 13 days.

The bill would create measures to ensure that noncitizens do not vote in the 2024 election.

VP hopeful J.D. Vance says Kamala Harris is trying to silence an American community overwhelmed by illegal immigrants by downplaying concerns over reports of migrants eating residents' pets.

The unusual story has dominated the news cycle ever since wild complaints emerged from Springfield, Ohio, that migrants, mostly from Haiti, are catching and eating pet cats and ducks.

Former President Donald Trump even brought it up in the debate last week, claiming migrants are 'eating dogs' in the town.

But Vice President Harris went farther, claiming in an interview on Tuesday that Vance and Trump's 'hateful rhetoric' is what led to a surge of over 30 bomb threats at schools in the same community.

DailyMail.com asked Vance during a campaign rally on Tuesday to respond to Harris' accusations - as boos and jeers broke out among the Wisconsin crowd.

Vance, who is from Ohio, replied that Harris is 'disgraceful' for downplaying the reports and claims he and Trump have heard from hundreds of residents who make the same claims.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

The House task force assigned with investigating the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt is now formally including the second attack over the weekend in the scope of their probe.

The change was announced by House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday evening in floor remarks with the task force’s chairman, Sen. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.).

It came after alleged would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was arrested for staking out of Donald Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday while the former president was golfing.

When fleeing the scene under the firepower of Secret Service, Routh left behind an SKS rifle, two bags with ceramic-layered bulletproof armor and a GoPro camera.

The FBI is investigating the incident as an assassination attempt.

Johnson said in remarks on Tuesday announcing the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump will include both attacks:

Speaker Mike Johnson (pictured) originally assigned the House task force earlier this summer to investigate the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13 but now wants the scope to include the bid made on September 15 in West Palm Beach, Florida

When Republicans vote on Wednesday to tie a stopgap spending bill to new requirements for voters to provide proof of citizenship they will have the backing of Americans, according to a new poll for DailyMail.com.

It found that 48 percent of likely voters believe that noncitizens are voting in American elections and that 45 percent feel strongly enough that they would support a government shutdown over the issue.

In contrast, 27 percent said they would oppose a shutdown on those grounds.

The results come in a poll of 1000 voters, conducted by J.L. Partners, which delved into one of the major dividing lines in the 2024 election.

Republicans insist that legislation is required to protect the legitimacy of the vote after years of unprecedented illegal immigration at the southern border.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Melania Trump defended her nude modeling pictures in her latest promotional video for her forth coming memoir, comparing them to the work of 'master artists.'

'Why do I stand proudly behind my nude modeling work?,' she says in the 45 second video posted to her social media accounts on Wednesday morning.

'The more pressing question is, why has the media chosen to scrutinize my celebration of the human forum in a fashion photo shoot? Are we no longer able to appreciate the beauty of the human body?'

The video is just a voice-over of the former first lady. And while she doesn't show any nude photos of herself, she does use photos of famous pieces of art, such as Michelangelo's statue of David, in the video.

'Throughout history, master artists have revered the human shape, evoking profound emotions and admiration. We should honor our bodies and embrace the timeless tradition of using art as a powerful means of self expression,' she says.

It marks the fourth video Melania Trump has posted to her social media accounts ahead of her memoir's launch on October 1. It's been an unusual marketing strategy to get people to pre-order her book.

It comes four days after a second assassination attempt on her husband Donald Trump. Melania Trump has yet to comment on Sunday's incident, when a suspect was found hidden just outside of Trump's West Palm Beach, Fla., golf club as he played a round.