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Kamala Harris lives her ‘momentum’ in front of Trump with a post-convention rebound in the polls
The Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency, Vice President Kamala Harris, enjoys a sweet moment after the momentum to her candidacy given to her by the party convention held last week, which is already beginning to be seen in the polls, as well as in the records of collection of donations to her campaign.
According to the average of national surveys updated this Sunday by the Washington Post newspaper, Kamala Harris’ advantage continues to grow and currently stands at two percentage points.
Even so, if you take into account the state polls (more representative, since in the United States citizens do not directly elect their president but elect their “voters” or members of the Electoral College, which are distributed according to the population of the state), Donald Trump continues to lead in 4 of the 7 most closely quarreled states.
The former Republican president (2027-2021) is still ahead in North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, although Harris has managed to scratch him an average of three points, since he announced his candidacy a month ago, after the departure of President Joe Biden.
The Democrat is ahead in the other three hinged or purple states, which will have more representativeness on November 5, due to the tightness of their results: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, says the Post.
After four days of convention in Chicago and the speeches of unity around Harris of the most important figures of the party, the vice president officially accepted the nomination for the presidency last Thursday.
These events, broadcast by the main television networks in prime time, usually always leave a rebound in the polls.
In Trump’s team they already counted on it, with this phase of “honeymoon”: “The rebounds after the Convention are a phenomenon that occurs after most party conventions (…) So don’t be surprised to see Harris get a temporary rebound of 2 to 3 points,” says a memorandum distributed yesterday by the Republican’s campaign.
According to the Silver Bulletin website, created by Nate Silver, founder of ABC News’ FiveThirtyEight survey analysis site, Harris has taken a four-point lead in national polls after independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was eliminated from the survey model, after announcing last Friday that he was pausing his campaign to support Trump.
His latest average thus shows Harris with 48.8% of the votes and Donald Trump with 44.8%.
Harris is also going through a sweet moment in terms of collecting donations. The campaign said this Sunday that it has raised 540 million dollars in the last month, “a record for any campaign in history.”
In the three days alone after his acceptance speech on Thursday, he has managed to raise 40 million dollars.
In comparison, the campaign of the former president and Republican candidate, Donald Trump (2017-2021), has announced that it raised about 139 million dollars in July and that it had accumulated about 327 million at the beginning of August.
During this week, Harris and his running mate, the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, will focus on the disputed state of Georgia, which was precisely decisive for Biden to achieve victory in 2020. It was the first time the state supported a Democratic presidential candidate in almost 30 years.
Harris and Walz will take a bus tour, similar to the one before the convention in Pennsylvania, which will culminate with a rally led by Harris on Thursday night in the Savannah area.
For his part, Donald Trump and his vice president candidate, JD Vance, will be in Detroit, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
International
Police investigate deaths of Rob Reiner and wife as apparent homicide
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is investigating the deaths of Hollywood actor and filmmaker Rob Reinerand his wife as an “apparent homicide,” amid a wave of tributes to the director of classics such as When Harry Met Sally.
According to U.S. media reports on Sunday, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead at their Los Angeles mansion with what appeared to be stab wounds.
Several political figures shared messages of condolence following the reported deaths of the director of A Few Good Menand his wife.
While the LAPD did not officially confirm the identities of the victims, it stated that homicide detectives were dispatched to the Reiner residence.
“At this time, no additional details are available and the investigation into an apparent homicide is ongoing,” the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement posted on social media.
LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton told reporters that no arrests have been made and that no individuals are currently being questioned as suspects.
“I’m not going to confirm whether anyone is being questioned at this moment or not. We are going to try to speak with as many family members as we can,” Hamilton said.
CNN reported that a family spokesperson confirmed the deaths of Reiner and his wife.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, former U.S. President Barack Obama, and former Vice President Kamala Harrisissued statements expressing their condolences.
International
U.S. and Mexico Reach Deal to Address Water Deficit Under 1944 Treaty
The United States and Mexico have reached an agreement to comply with current water obligations affecting U.S. farmers and ranchers and for Mexico to cover its water deficit to Texas under the 1944 Water Treaty, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement.
The department уточified that the agreement applies to both the current cycle and the water deficit from the previous cycle.
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump accused Mexico of failing to comply with the water-sharing treaty between the two countries, which requires the United States to deliver 1.85 billion cubic meters of water from the Colorado River, while Mexico must supply 432 million cubic meters from the Rio Grande.
Mexico is behind on its commitments. According to Washington, the country has accumulated a deficit of more than one billion cubic meters of water over the past five years.
“This violation is severely harming our beautiful crops and our livestock in Texas,” Trump wrote on Monday.
The Department of Agriculture said on Friday that Mexico had agreed to supply 250 million cubic meters of water starting next week and to work toward closing the shortfall.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, quoted in the statement, said Mexico delivered more water in a single year than it had over the previous four years combined.
Trump has said that if Mexico continues to fall short of its obligations, the United States reserves the right to impose 5% tariffs on imported Mexican products.
Mexico’s Deputy Foreign Minister for North America, Roberto Velasco, said that a severe drought in 2022 and 2023prevented the country from meeting its commitments.
International
Several people shot in attack on Brown University campus
Several people were shot on Saturday in an attack on the campus of Brown University, in the northeastern United States, local police reported.
“Shelter in place and avoid the area until further notice,” the Providence Police Department urged in a post on X. Brown University is located in Providence, the capital of the state of Rhode Island.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social that he had been briefed on the situation and that the FBI was on the scene.
At 5:52 p.m. local time (11:52 p.m. GMT), Brown University said the situation was still “ongoing” and instructed students to remain sheltered until further notice.
After initially stating that the suspect had been taken into custody, Trump later posted a second message clarifying that local police had walked back that information. “The suspect has NOT been apprehended,” the U.S. president said.
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