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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff disclosed that his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, had reprimanded him on the day President Joe Biden announced he was giving up his bid for reelection because she couldn’t find him.
During an interview with the Draft Kings Network, Emhoff said he was taking a spin class in Los Angeles and had left his cell phone behind when a friend informed him of what was going on.
“So, it was — I was in L.A., it was during that weekend when all the planes were down because of [a] software glitch, so I had to spend an extra day in L.A.,” he explained.
“I decided to go to cycling class with some friends, and it was an hour class and we were just chit-chatting. I had my phone in the Secret Service car, so I didn’t have my phone, and then my friend’s partner just showed me his phone with the letter from President Biden and I’m like, ‘Gotta go,’ and I just ran into the car, and there was my phone literally, like, you could feel the steam, seven or eight messages all with, you know, ‘Where are you? Call Kamala! Call Kamala!'” he said.
“It was a one-minute or less conversation, which started with, ‘Where the f**k were you? I need you right now.’ And basically, ‘Get to work,’ and I did,” he said.
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A brand new poll shows that former President Donald Trump is ahead of Harris in five of the seven crucial swing states, which will be crucial in deciding who wins the election.
According to an AtlasIntel survey of likely voters in battleground states, Trump leads in Pennsylvania (51 percent to 48.1) and Michigan (50.6 percent to 47.2).
The former president is also in a “narrow” lead in the states that are in doubt: Arizona (49.8 percent to 48.6), Georgia (49.6 percent to 49), and Wisconsin (49.7 percent to 48.2). This information was provided by AtlasIntel. In Nevada (50.5 percent to 47.7) and North Carolina (50.5 percent to 48.1), Harris is ahead.
538 voters chose AtlasIntel as the most reliable polling organization for the 2020 presidential contest. If the Republican takes the five battleground states that he presently leads in their polling, with Harris at 248 Electoral College votes, Trump would win the 2024 election with 290 Electoral College votes.
Reacting to the poll results, a Trump spokesperson told Newsweek: “Americans are sick and tired of Kamala Harris and her failed policies that have led to skyrocketing inflation, an out-of-control border- and rampant crime that terrorizes communities. She is weak, failed, and dangerously liberal, and the American people know a fraud when they see one.”
According to the AtlasIntel poll, Trump would prevail in two of Harris’s most important “blue wall” battleground states.
Another prominent election prediction model has shifted to “lean” toward Trump after weeks of indicating that the race was a “toss-up.”
The change results from a series of new polling data suggesting that Vice President Kamala Harris’s national lead has diminished or vanished entirely.
Additionally, multiple swing states now show the former president holding a narrow lead in most of the battlegrounds that will ultimately determine the outcome of the next election, the UK’s DailyMail.com reported.
The outlet teamed with J.L. Partners to create an election model that now gives Trump a nearly 63 percent chance of winning.
“When those numbers are fed into our exclusive prediction model, it shows that Trump would claim the overall win in 62.4 percent of our simulations. At the end of last week, he was at 59.8 percent. The new numbers suggest the momentum is with him rather than the vice president, and it shifts the overall result from ‘toss-up’ to ‘lean Trump,’” the outlet reported.
