Swing state poll shows surge in youth support for candidate in the race between Trump and Harris

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Kamala Harris is making up ground that President Joe Biden was struggling to earn from young voters this election cycle.

Biden, 81, was lagging in the polls when he was still in the race mostly due to losing support among younger voters.

But now, with 59-year-old Harris at the top of the ticket, this voting bloc has growing enthusiasm for the November election.

In a five-way race, Harris beats Donald Trump by 9 percentage points among these Millennial and Gen Z registered voters, which is a 10 point jump from last month where Biden was trailing the former president.

Time Magazine's cover story gives a flowery image of the start of Vice President Kamala Harris presidential run and seeks to build on the momentum the Demoratic candidate is seeing.

The story is titled 'The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris' and the cover has a stoic black and white headshot sketch of the vice president.

'Where has this Kamala Harris been all along?' the article questions, adding:

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Elon Musk revealed that his conversation with Donald Trump on Monday evening will be held live on X.

The former president will return to the platform to host the talk with the billionaire on his own account after remaining mostly absent since 2021 when he was banned by then-Twitter owner Jack Dorsey.

Musk vowed he will run 'system scaling tests' ahead of the conversations with Trump.

It comes after a botched campaign rollout on X with Ron DeSantis last year when the Florida Governor was launching his Republican presidential primary bid.

The only activity Trump has made on his X account since January 8, 2021 was coming back on to post in August 2023 an image of his now famous mug shot from Fultin County prison.

With just 12 days to spare before the one-year anniversary of that post, Trump will come back on the platform for his highly-anticipated talk with Musk.

The battalion commander who ran Tim Walz's former unit has slammed the vice presidential nominee over claims of 'stolen valor'.

Harris has also been put in the unenviable position of confronting claims that Walz misrepresented his rank when he retired from the National Guard.

Now Lieutenant Colonel John Kolb, the man who would take over Walz's unit after the governor quit in 2005, has obliterated the Democrat for claiming the rank of Command Sergeant Major and for retiring before deployment to Iraq.

Kolb wrote in a Facebook post that Walz 'did not earn the rank' and added that 'it is an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps that he continues to glom onto the title.'

A US carrier strike group has been rushed to the Middle East as new Israeli intelligence suggests Iran will launch an attack within a matter of days.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a guided missile submarine to the Middle East late Sunday, telling the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to move quickly into the area, the Defense Department announced.

The move came just hours after Austin spoke with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, announced.

During that conversation, Gallant told Austin that Iranian military preparations suggest that the country is getting ready for a large-scale attack in retaliation for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh - the political leader of Hamas, Axios reports.

His assassination, as well as that of Hezbollah's senior military commander Fuad Shukr by Israel in a strike on Beirut, have fueled concern of a larger war within the Middle East.

A veteran Republican pollster has warned that Donald Trump is 'destroying his re-election chance' after the ex-president fell behind Kamala Harris in recent polls.

Frank Luntz, dubbed 'the Nostradamus of pollsters', said last week that Harris is slightly favored to win - and now he has revealed why he believes Trump is flagging: 'The campaign is disciplined; their candidate is not.'

'[Trump] is single-handedly destroying his chance for re-election. This is the weakest Democratic nominee in terms of record in a long time but his insistence on making the attacks personal and vicious are blunting their impact and, in fact, backfiring on him,' Luntz told The Guardian.

It comes amid reports that Trump's recent broadsides, including claims Harris 'happened to turn black', have spooked donors. The vice president, on the other hand, is enjoying a honeymoon period with the liberal media falling over themselves to promote her campaign and pollsters tipping her to take the White House.

Luntz says that Trump can regain the momentum by focusing on two key issues: the border crisis, which Harris disastrously presided over, and the flailing economy.

'Right now I think Trump's gonna lose because he's incapable of sticking to a message about inflation or immigration,' Luntz said.