Columbus, OH

Wisconsin State

USA TODAY

Ahead of the DNC, many recent polls show Harris ahead in national polls and nearly tied in key swing states.

Who will win the 2024 election? What the polls say ahead of DNC

Pennsylvania State

TheDailyBeast

One thousand three hundred eighty-eight days after the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump appeared to tacitly admit that he lost to Joe Biden.Almost four years of denials gave way to one seemingly innocuous throwaway line, made while Trump held a press availability Thursday about immigration issues near a stretch of wall on the Arizona side of the U.S.-Mexico border.Holding up a printed copy of a graph that purportedly shows migrant encounter stats at the southern border, and which was on display the moment he was the target of an assassination attempt at a July rally in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, Trump...

Wait, Did Trump Just Admit He Lost the 2020 Election?

NBC News

CHICAGO — A historic switch in the presidential ticket. A shift in the polling. And a still-undefined presidential nominee. That’s the backdrop to this week’s Democratic convention, which began Monday with President Joe Biden passing the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris and will end Thursday night with Harris officially accepting her party’s presidential nomination.

Five poll numbers that tell the story of the Democratic convention — and what's coming next

HuffPost

A wave of joy and enthusiasm permeated the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. But Kamala Harris does not have this in the bag.

The Party Is Over For Democrats. Now Comes The Hangover.

Salon

Vice President Kamala Harris has taken a 3 point lead over Donald Trump in the national race for the White House, according to a pair of surveys released this week. On Monday, Survey USA and UMass Amherst both released surveys showing the Democratic candidate winning over more likely voters than the former president, a stark turnaround from before she entered the race last month. According to Survey USA, Harris earns the support of 48% of likely voters while Trump earns the backing of 45%. According to Umass Amherst, the vice president has a 46% to 43 % lead over the GOP candidate; in January, the same pollster found Trump leading President Joe Biden by 43% to 39%.

Harris beats Trump in the latest polls, expanding her lead in the national polling average

South Carolina State

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Florida State

Akeena

Recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals a significant trend: Florida is experiencing a substantial outflow of residents. According to the latest figures, over 275,000 individuals left Florida for other states in 2022.

Florida Sees Surge in Departures as Hundreds of Thousands Move Out

The analysis in this report is based on 4,527 registered voters who responded to two different American Trends Panel (ATP) surveys. Wave 146 was conducted April 8-14, 2024, and Wave 151 was conducted Aug. 5-11, 2024. The full methodology for Wave 146 can be found here. The full methodology for Wave 151 can be found here.

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Salem, OH

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Northern Kentucky Tribune

Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

North Carolina State

Axios Raleigh

After losing voters for most of the last six months, the Democratic Party has seen a bump in affiliated voter registrations since President Biden ended his re-election campaign, per an analysis by Western Carolina University political professor Chris Cooper.Why it matters: Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign saw an influx of both volunteers and donations in its first week — pointing to momentum building in the Democratic party around her candidacy. Zoom in: The latest voter registration numbers in North Carolina are also evidence that Harris' campaign launch is giving the party a modest but much-needed boost in the state. It's "potentially...

NC Democrats see voter registration bump since Biden-Harris switch

Georgia State

Arizona State

The Hill

Former President Trump is narrowly edging out Vice President Harris in Arizona and Pennsylvania, while he runs behind her in Georgia, according to new polling first shared with The Hill. The polling, which was commissioned by Democratic super PAC Progress Action Fund and conducted by the left-leaning pollster Public Policy...

Trump edges out Harris in Arizona, Pennsylvania but lags in Georgia in new polling

Colorado State

David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

New Jersey State

San Antonio, TX

Morristown Minute

NEW JERSEY - A San Antonio, Texas woman, Janet Bernal, also known by several aliases including “Rocky G” and “RockyG-Kruella,” has been arrested and charged with wire fraud for allegedly selling over $18 million worth of counterfeit coupons to be used at retail stores across the United States.

Coupon Queen's $18M Fraud: Woman Arrested in Nationwide Scheme

A new survey shows Harris leading Trump in pivotal swing states.

Let's look at the polls

Los Angeles County, CA

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Herbie J Pilato

It's been 33 years since actress Nancy Kulp died of cancer in 1991 at 69. Best known as Miss Jane Hathaway on TV's classic country comedy, The Beverly Hillbillies(CBS, 1962-1971, Kulp was a trailblazing political advocate. She was a Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania’s 9th congressional district. She later worked as an artist-in-residence at Juniata College and taught acting. And she was also gay. Long divorced, she came out of the closet at the age of 67 and acknowledged she was a lesbian. This is her story.

The Secret Gay Life of Nancy Kulp ('The Beverly Hillbillies'): 33 Years After Her Tragic Death

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris leads Republican former President Donald Trump in three battleground states – Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan – by four points, according to polls by the New York Times and Siena College. Harris is ahead of Trump by four percentage points...

Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in three key swing states, new poll shows

The Current GA

A state Supreme Court’s decision reversing a lower court’s ruling that a private contractor was exempt from the Georgia Open Records Act is being hailed as a win for open government.

State Supreme Court rules Open Records Act applies to private contractors working for governments

The Georgia Democratic Party claims Trump's allies are trying to "establish a new power of not certifying an election result should their preferred candidate lose."

Democrats Sue Georgia Election Board Over New Rules That Could Delay Vote Certification

Wyoming State

WyoFile

Don Hall is an avid snowmobiler, but instead of heading for the hills each winter in search of deep powder, he takes an older snowmachine to lower elevations nearer the snow line. There’s a reason the Riverton resident prefers the lower zones despite the rocks, fences and sage most riders avoid: That’s where the coyotes are.

Wyoming allows snowmobilers to run down wildlife. Despite global outrage, it may stay legal.

The Lens

This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

Michigan State

Detroit, MI

The Independent

Democratic candidates Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have made their joint debut this week, with a whirlwind schedule campaigning through battleground states. Harris and Walz have already stopped in Philadelphia, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and will soon hold events in Arizona and Nevada.  They are speaking at a union event in Detroit later on Thursday for the United Auto Workers group.The auto unions have been a key bastion of support for President Joe Biden, who even went so far as to join the picket line with members in solidarity in September of last year. Though Harris has not yet had...

Confusing polls show voters in Michigan much prefer Harris’s policies — but not Harris herself

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Key things to know about U.S. election polling in 2024

Confidence in U.S. public opinion polling was shaken by errors in 2016 and 2020. In both years’ general elections, many polls underestimated the strength of Republican...

Key things to know about U.S. election polling in 2024

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