2024 election update: Trump books MSG rally; Latest polls, news | Oct. 9

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• Former President Donald Trump: Trump has events planned in Scranton, Biden’s birthplace, and Reading, Pennsylvania. The hurricane prompted Trump to postpone a virtual health-related event and reschedule a Univision town hall in Miami on Tuesday night.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a campaign rally at Dodge County Airport on Sunday, October 6, 2024, in Juneau, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

• Vice President Kamala Harris: Harris travels to Las Vegas before stopping in Arizona. First, she will virtually attend a press conference on Hurricane Milton and the federal response that President Joe Biden is receiving at the White House.

Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two as she departs for New York at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Oct. 7, 2024. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP) (Photo by EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Ge

• Black Voters’ Views of Trump, Harris: According to a recent poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, about 7 in 10 black voters have a somewhat or very favorable opinion of Harris, with little difference between black voters and voters in their view of the Democratic nominee. In contrast, black voters’ opinions of former President Donald Trump were overwhelmingly negative, underscoring the challenges he faces in trying to undermine Harris’ support among black men. (October 8)
• Trump’s big lead in Florida: According to a new New York Times/Siena College poll, Trump is ahead in Florida by an incredible 13 points, 55% to 41%. “This doesn’t look like the other polls in the state. To date, the Times average of all polls puts Mr. Trump ahead of Florida by just four points,” the Times writes. (October 8)

A sign reading “VOTE DEFEND DEMOCRACY on NOV 8” is posted on a street pole the day before the midterm elections on November 7, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)

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Donald Trump returns to New York in the final leg of the race, planning a rally at the city’s iconic Madison Square Garden stadium.

Trump is planning his event for Oct. 27, opening the final week of the campaign, according to a campaign official familiar with the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement.

It will be Trump’s second rally in the city where he grew up, following a stop in the South Bronx in May.

Trump has claimed he believes he can win New York, even though it is an overwhelmingly Democratic state and the city even more so. But such an event is likely to attract outsized media attention.

The former president is also campaigning in other Democratic states this week, including California and Colorado.

– From The Associated Press

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