2024 election live updates: Trump swaps states for New York’s Madison Square Garden rally – The Independent

JD Vance appeared on CNN State of the Union on Sunday, facing tough questions from Jake Tapper about Donald Trump’s comments about the “enemy within” and his suggestion that he could use the US military to go after his opponents.

Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who supported Kamala Harris, slammed Vance’s response, saying, “What we’ve just seen is what it looks like when somebody has to go through incredible contortions to try to find a way to protect the person JD Vance himself called America’s Hitler.

It’s hard to gauge the size of the crowd roughly two hours before the doors open at Madison Square Garden, but a long line has packed in from the Seventh Avenue entrance and filled half the street by now at 33rd Street, across from the Penn Station entrance.

Today, the street is entirely pedestrianized, with NYPD barricades on both sides, under downtown landmarks like Sbarro and Target.

There is a sea of ​​red MAGA hats and several flags waving over the crowd.

We should be in by noon.

Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz will cross the country to visit all seven battleground states in the coming days, part of a final blitz before the end of the presidential campaign.

The Democratic presidential candidate will spend Sunday in Philadelphia, attending church services in the morning and visiting a barber shop. Harris also plans to stop by a Puerto Rican restaurant and youth basketball facility.

On Monday, Walz, who is governor of Minnesota and Harris’ running mate, will campaign in Manitowoc and Waukesha, Wisconsin, before heading to Ann Arbor, Michigan for a joint rally with Harris. Singer Maggie Rogers is scheduled to perform.

The Independent. Ariana Baio and Alex Woodward outside Madison Square Garden ahead of Trump’s rally later Sunday.

Vendors outside the arena replaced their usual merchandise with MAGA products.

Two people were seen impersonating Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a dictator Trump has often complimented.

A Nigel Farage-inspired bid to persuade Donald Trump to veto Keir Starmer’s controversial Chagos Islands deal can be revealed today.

The Independent has seen legal advice on Starmer’s controversial deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius sent to Mr Trump, which was requested after the Reform UK leader raised the issue directly with the former president’s team.

The advice was drawn up by legal experts who worked alongside Farage on the Brexit campaign.

Mr Farage says he was not directly involved in the legal advice, but his ties to Trump are believed to have played a vital role in the initiative.

The goal of Farage and his allies is to convince Trump to block the deal if he becomes president.

A growing number of Americans say Donald Trump is too old to be president — but not as many as when President Joe Biden faced similar concerns about his age over the summer.

A new YouGov poll found that 44 percent say Trump, at 78, is too old to lead the executive branch. That figure is up from 35 percent who said the same in a similar survey in February.

Likewise, the number of people who said he was not too old fell from 53 percent in February to 46 percent in October.

Those numbers are compared to 81-year-old President Biden, who dropped out of the 2024 presidential campaign and endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. In a similar survey in February, 63 percent of respondents said Biden was too old to be president. That figure jumped to 70 percent in July.

Harris and her running mate are poised to charge through the contested states for a series of rallies focused on getting out the vote and “harnessing the energy of these events to mobilize voters to go to the polls,” according to the Harris-Waltz campaign.

The Trump campaign has sent out the list of speakers for the former president’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden.

Doors are at noon, with the former president scheduled to speak around 5:00 PM ET.

• Senator Jay D Vance
• Speaker Mike Johnson
• Representative Elise Stefanik
• Representative Byron Donalds
• Tulsi Gabbard
• Rudy Giuliani
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr
• Lara Trump
• Eric Trump
• Donald Trump Jr
• Elon Musk
• Dan Scavino
• Stephen Miller
• Dana White
• Tucker Carlson
• Brooke Rollins
• Steve Witkoff
• Howard Lutnick
• Grant Cardone
• Sergio Gore
• Michael Harris Jr
• Tiffany Justice
• Lee Greenwood
• Christopher Macchio
• Mary Milben
• Sid Rosenberg
• Kill Tony
• Scott Lobaideau
• David Rehm

With just over a week to go before Election Day, a historic gender gap is emerging that could decide whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins the White House.

A recent national opinion poll found that women overwhelmingly support the vice president, 53 percent to 36 over her Republican rival.