Presidential candidate gets 'big uptick' and race is now 'almost a toss-up,' top forecaster predicts

Nate Silver updated his model forecasting who has the better chances of winning the presidential election.

His latest data shows Kamala Harris with a 42.5 percent chance of clinching the Electoral College vote while Trump has a 56.9 percent chance.

However, on Tuesday Harris' probability of winning the Electoral College was at just 38.1 percent.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Pennsylvania

Donald Trump is returning to Pennsylvania on Wednesday for the first time since he was shot at a rally in the state earlier this month.

Just 17 days after the assassination attempt, the former president is returning to the key battleground state.

The rally in Pennsylvania’s capital of Harrisburg is just the third since the shooting and since becoming the Republican presidential nominee.

The FBI and multiple congressional committees are investigating the near-death of Trump and the security failures that allowed the shooter to get just 130 yards away from the stage with an AR-style weapon.

Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told DailyMail.com:

Shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was neutralized by the Secret Service – but not before shooting Trump just centimeters from his brain, killing one rally goer and critically injuring two others.

Pennsylvania is vital to clinch in the 2024 race and is one of just a handful of states that will determine the outcome in November.

Trump nabbed a victory in the Keystone State in 2016 by just 0.7 percent. But in 2020, the state flipped blue to hand Biden a victory over the incumbent by a 1.2 percent gap.

Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris in a Philadelphia suburb on Monday with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Shapiro is being floated as a running mate for Harris after she became the Democrat’s de facto nominee last week.

Trump hit back at Democrat attacks on the Republican ticket being 'weird'. He told Fox News:

Former President Donald Trump reached for his trusty 'I'm rubber, you're glue' defense after repeatedly being branded weird by the Harris campaign – calling the vice president a 'weird person.'

'Listen, this whole thing is a con job. "Just plain weird." Do you know who is plain weird? She’s plain weird,' Trump told the host on her Ingraham Angle show.

'She’s a weird person. Look at her past. Look at what she does.'

Doug Emhoff posted a cute video on social media with David Letterman.

The two men were at a fundraiser for Kamala Harris' campaign in Martha's Vineyard.

Playing on the theme that the torch has been passed by Joe Biden to Harris, Emhoff passed his phone to Letterman.

Letterman, in turn, passed it to Jack Schlossberg, the son of Caroline Kennedy and a political correspondent for Vogue.

Jill Biden was originally scheduled to attend the fundraiser with Letterman but Emhoff stepped in after Joe Biden exited the presidential race.

Actress and comedian Maya Rudolph will be returning to Saturday Night Live to reprise her Emmy-winning role as Vice President Kamala Harris.

Rudolph will play Harris at least throught the 2024 election this November, CNN reports.

It comes as the vice president is now center stage as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

Kamala Harris has raised $2.5 million from a fundraiser set to take place in Houston on Wednesday evening.

CNN reported the number. Harris also speak at the Divine Nine sorority, a prominent African American sorority.

While Harris is in Texas, Donald Trump will speak to the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago.

The vice president als0 was invited to attend but said she could only attend virtually, citing her schedule.

Harris will overnight in Texas to attend Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s funeral on Thursday in Houston.

By Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Democratic delegates will begin voting in the virtual roll call to officially make Vice President Kamala Harris the Democratic presidential nominee on Thursday.

The DNC and DNCC chairs announced Tuesday that only Harris qualified for the ballot after 3,923 delegates petitioned to get her on the ballot for the nomination.

Harris secured support from 99 percent of participating delegates.

Voting on the virtual roll call to officially make her the nominee will begin Aug. 1 and run through Aug. 5.

Delegates will receive a secure ballot to cast their vote on a rolling basis.

Donald Trump's invitation to address an association of black journalists - along with the group's shunning of Kamala Harris - has sparked outrage, resignations, and internecine fighting among its membership.

Trump is scheduled to take part of moderated discussion with the National Association of Black Journalists on Wednesday at their annual convention in Chicago.

Meanwhile, the group declined an offer from Harris to appear for a virtual conversation. The vice president could not appear in person due to logistical reasons, including her attendance at the funeral of the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in Texas.

Vice President Kamala Harris' much older ex-boyfriend Willie Brown believes that President Joe Biden should step down as president so that she can take the job.

Brown spoke with Politico columnist Jonathan Martin, revealing his thoughts about Harris, whom he dated when he was 60 and running for mayor of San Francisco and she was a relatively unknown 29-year-old Ameda County prosecutor.

Brown joked that if Harris won the presidency, 'She’ll deport my ass,' a joke he has long made about his former girlfriend turned political protege.

He also revealed that Harris was not former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's first choice for president and that he worked to make sure his other political protege Gov. Gavin Newsom was fully behind Harris.

President Joe Biden is set to headline the first day of the Democratic Convention in Chicago that will nominate Vice President Kamala Harris after Biden dropped out of the race.

The awkward but politically essential handoff will occur on Monday, the first of four days to be keynoted by party luminaries, culminating in an expected speech by Harris on Thursday.

‘Monday night is Joe’s night,’ a source told CNN.

'Convention is our opportunity to tell our story directly to the American people, rally behind the Democratic nominees, and grow our broad and diverse coalition to defeat Donald Trump,’ convention senior communications director Matt Hill said, without confirming the report.

‘We look forward to sharing more soon about our convention in Chicago where Democrats will offer a forward-looking vision for our country that stands in stark contrast to the extremism from Donald Trump's convention that would take America backwards.’

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced it will begin moving forward with next steps in canceling student loan debt for tens of millions of borrowers this fall.

This week the Education Department will start emailing borrowers who have at least one federal student loan with an update on the potential student loan debt forgiveness available to them under the rule changes being finalized this fall.

It is the latest move in an a massive effort by President Biden to wipe out billions in student loan debt. The administration has already canceled more than $168 billion in debt for some 4.8 million borrowers.

The rules if finalized would bring the total number of borrowers eligible for student loan debt cancelation to more than 30 million, including those who have already had debt wiped out since Biden took office.

Kamala Harris appears to be rallying Democrats behind her candidacy but a majority think Donald Trump will win in November.

About 8 in 10 Democrats say they are somewhat or very satisfied with Harris as the Democratic nominee, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

That poll was taken after Joe Biden left the race.

In a poll taken before Biden stepped down – but after his disastrous debate with Donald Trump – only 4 in 10 Democrats were satisfied with him as the nominee.

However, 56%, say that if Trump and Harris are the nominees in the November election, Trump is more likely to win.

Democrats are pushing for their favorite colleagues and friends to be considered for Vice President Kamala Harris's running mate.

Harris is reportedly getting close to choosing a VP and could be out on the campaign trail with her second-in-command by her side as soon as next week.

After quickly obtaining the Democratic party's full support following President Joe Biden's monumental reelection exit just over a week ago, she started vetting potential No. 2 options.

The top contenders thought to be in the running include Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.

Donald Trump was asked on Fox News about Kamala Harris using the pronouns ‘she/her' in her X bio. he said:

Asked if he was 'fluid' he said: