2024 presidential election reside updates: Dire warning for high Republican in nail-biter Senate race

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is in bother in his race in opposition to Democrat Colin Allred in response to a brand new ballot.

Cruz’s lead within the race is slowly slipping away, the survey by Public Coverage Polling/Clear and Affluent America reveals.

The longtime Texas senator is up by only one level – 47 p.c to Allred’s 46 p.c.

That is a decline since August, which had Cruz up by two factors. And to make issues worse, his favorability score has tanked from six to eight factors in just some weeks.

Retaining Cruz’s seat is essential for Republicans as they try to flip the Senate crimson.

If Allred is victorious in just a few weeks, he could be the primary Democratic senator of the state since 1988.

Donald Trump accused Democrats on Monday of interfering together with his potential to marketing campaign by diverting Secret Service personnel for themselves or visiting world leaders.

He provided no proof however cited the instance of the president of Iran, who was in New York final week for the United Nations Basic Meeting, the place he was afforded safety.

Trump stated the lesson was that extra Secret Service brokers had been wanted.

Donald Trump gunman Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, has pleaded not responsible to a number of fees, together with tried assassination of the previous president.

Routh appeared in federal court docket in West Palm Seashore, Florida, on Monday days after being charged with making an attempt to assassinate Trump. He has been ordered to stay in jail with out bail as his case snakes by means of the court docket.

He faces 5 whole federal fees after cops stated he pointed a rifle by means of a fence at Trump’s golf membership in West Palm Seashore on September 15.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

President Joe Biden stated that he might name on Congress to return again in session after Hurricane Helene devastated the southeast.

At a press convention discussing the tragic storm that has killed upwards of 100 folks, Biden stated he might think about requesting the physique’s return.

When requested if he’ll press Congress to work on payments associated to Helene, Biden stated ‘That’s one thing I’ll should request however no choice has been made but.’

Biden’s warning that Congress might have to return again comes after funding for catastrophe reduction was not included within the newest funding package deal lawmakers handed final week.

Trump posted on X earlier than flying to Georgia, saying that he had deliberate to cease off in North Carolina too however entry and communications have made it too troublesome.

He additionally leveled a declare that federal authorities and the state’s Democratic governor had been stopping assist attending to Republican areas.

I’ll be there shortly, however don’t just like the studies that I’m getting in regards to the Federal Authorities, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their method to not assist folks in Republican areas. MAGA!

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

President Biden gave an emphatic reply when requested if he was comfy with Israel’s plan because it lots forces on the border with Lebanon.

‘I am extra conscious than you would possibly know, and I am comfy with them stopping. We should always have a ceasefire now,’ Biden stated. He took the query on the White Home Monday regardless of saying he needed to stay with the topic of recuperate from Hurricane Helene.

The remark stopped far wanting an endorsement of an invasion, which comes as Israel continues its struggle in opposition to Hamas in Gaza, amid fears that occasions within the area might develop right into a regional struggle.

The president’s feedback comply with studies that Israel is planning a restricted floor operation into Lebanon, after a sequence of withering strikes concentrating on Hezbollah management and weapons, even because it lots forces on the border.

A ‘restricted’ invasion would seem to cease wanting Israel’s 2006 struggle in opposition to Hamas in Lebanon. It comes days after Israel took out longtime Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah in an air strike.

By Emily Goodin, senior White Home correspondent

President Joe Biden stated he expects to go to the areas devastated by Hurricane Helene later this week.

‘I am dedicated to touring to impacted areas as quickly as doable, however I have been informed that it will be disruptive if I did it proper now,’ he stated.

‘We won’t do this on the danger of diverting or delaying any of the response property wanted to cope with this disaster,’ he famous.

However he did say ‘I count on to be there later in later within the week.’

‘I’ve informed the governor of North Carolina I am going to go down and I count on to be down there by Wednesday or Thursday when it’s clear for me,’ he famous.

Biden coughed a number of instances throughout his remarks and stated he had a chilly.

He additionally defended spending the weekend at his Rehoboth Seashore residence whereas the hurricane was devastating elements of the South.

‘I used to be commanding, I used to be on the telephone for at the very least two hours yesterday, and the day earlier than, as nicely. I commanded, it is known as a phone,’ he stated.

Donald Trump heads to Georgia on Monday to deal with the efforts to assist victims of the hurricane.

Biden refused to remark when requested if the previous president could be disruptive.

‘I don’t have any concept,’ he informed reporters.

The U.S. is working frantically to assist Americans get out of Beirut with an Israeli floor invasion of Lebanon imminent.

The embassy stated in a submit on X on Monday that it’s coordinating with airways to assist U.S. residents go away after a sequence of airstrikes – together with one which killed Hezbollah’s chief Hassan Nassrallah.

On Friday it was introduced the embassy wouldn’t be evacuating residents, so these wanting to depart must pay for flights themselves.

The pressing discover was shared amid studies Tel Aviv has informed the Biden administration there shall be a floor invasion.

The New York Occasions editorial board endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president calling her the ‘solely patriotic alternative’ and her rival former President Donald Trump ‘unfit for any workplace.’

The group of opinion journalists who make up the board made the endorsement on Monday with simply over 30 days to go earlier than the election in what stays a razor-thin race for the White Home.

‘As a devoted public servant who has demonstrated care, competence and an unwavering dedication to the Structure, Ms. Harris stands alone on this race,’ they wrote.

A the identical time, they warned until voters reject him, ‘Trump can have the ability to do profound and lasting hurt to our democracy.’

Donald Trump flies into hurricane nation on Monday as his opponent Kamala Harris returns residence to Washington for briefings, as each alter their campaigns to the devastation wrought by Helene on the weekend.

Trump shall be in Valdosta, Georgia, the place he’ll get an replace on storm harm and can ‘facilitate the distribution of reduction provides,’ as his marketing campaign put it.

Helene ripped into Florida’s Gulf Coast on Thursday night time, triggering days of torrential rain and flooding.

It destroyed houses throughout the South-east and left at the very least 100 folks useless in its wake.

Virtually three million folks had been with out energy on Sunday night time.

Donald Trump proposed a surprising, one-off answer to American crime issues that some are saying resembles the favored horror film sequence The Purge.

‘In case you had one actually violent day. One tough hour — and I imply actual tough — the phrase would get out and it will finish instantly,’ Trump stated.

He stated that the crime drawback exists as a consequence of police not being ‘allowed to do their job’ as a result of Kamala Harris and ‘the liberal left will not allow them to.’

The speech led many to recommend what Trump is proposing is the plot of the film sequence The Purge.

Journalist Brian Krassenstein requested: ‘Did Trump simply f***ing recommend The Purge?’

By Emily Goodin, senior White Home correspondent

Kamala Harris is cancelling her deliberate marketing campaign stops for Monday to be able to return to Washington D.C. for briefings on Hurricane Helene.

She’s going to go away Las Vegas within the morning and be in Washington for a briefing at FEMA on Monday afternoon, in response to her marketing campaign. She can even go to the devastated areas when it received’t disrupt the emergency response efforts.

Her transfer comes as Republican rival Donald Trump heads to Georgia to deal with the efforts to assist victims of the hurricane.

President Joe Biden will discuss his administration’s response on Monday morning on the White Home.

Greater than 100 folks have died from the storm, which has left harm throughout a number of Southern states, significantly the forested mountains of western North Carolina.

Roads and I-64, a significant interstate, have been worn out in elements of those areas, making it troublesome to herald vital provides. Native and federal officers, together with the Nationwide Guard, are racing to deliver reduction.

Greater than 460,000 individuals are with out energy and greater than 1,000 had taken refuge in 24 shelters.

A Democrat operating for Senate in Michigan has warned Kamala Harris her inner polling is ‘underwater’ in one of many states essential to her likelihood of victory.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin informed donors final week she wasn’t feeling her ‘greatest’ in regards to the numbers within the Nice Lake State, in response to video obtained by Axios.

‘I am not feeling my greatest proper now about the place we’re on Kamala Harris in a spot like Michigan,’ she stated throughout a digital fundraiser with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).

Slotkin is operating in opposition to former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers in some of the intently watched Senate contests within the nation.

The result shall be a vital think about figuring out which get together has management of the higher chamber from January 2025.

For Harris, Michigan gives one of many easiest paths to victory together with different Blue Wall states together with Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

If Trump sweeps the Solar Belt states, Harris would want to choose up at the very least one to have an opportunity of taking the White Home.