Harris to appear on SNL as shock poll gives her lead in Iowa: Election 2024 live

Singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo has told her 38.2 million followers on Instagram in a reel posted on Saturday evening: “A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for a national abortion ban and a vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for reproductive freedom.”

Rodrigo sat down with survivor and advocate Hadley Duvall to talk about reproductive rights. Watch their conversation below:

Kamala Harris’s plane was bound for Detroit after today’s rally in North Carolina, but has been diverted to New York City for an unannounced stop.

Reporters were told of the diversion mid-flight, according to the pooler.

Citing an insider, The New York Post reports that the vice president will make a surprise appearance during tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live.

Harris will appear during the show’s traditional cold open, the Post says, which is usually devoted to satirizing politicians. Harris is portrayed on the show by Maya Rudolph.

This week’s episode of SNL is hosted by John Mulaney and the musical guest is Chappell Roan.

Also set to appear, according to the Post are Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and former cast member Pete Davidson.

J Ann Seltzer, widely considered to be among the best pollsters in the country, has just published her final survey of Iowa for The Des Moines Register.

To the surprise of many it shows a 12-point swing to the Democratic Party ticket since 2020, putting Kamala Harris three points over Donald Trump in the Hawkeye State at 47% to 44%.

The results come as Trump and Harris have focused their attention almost exclusively on seven battleground states that are expected to shape the outcome of the election. Neither has campaigned in Iowa since the presidential primaries ended, and neither campaign has established a ground presence in the state.

A victory for Harris would be a surprising development after Iowa has swung aggressively to the right in recent elections, delivering Trump solid victories in 2016 and 2020.

The poll shows that women — particularly those who are older or who are politically independent — are driving the late shift toward Harris.

“Age and gender are the two most dynamic factors that are explaining these numbers,” Selzer said.

The poll of 808 likely Iowa voters, which include those who have already voted as well as those who say they definitely plan to vote, was conducted by Selzer & Co. from October 28-31. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points — so any lead Harris has is within that.

Robert F Kennedy Jr has tweeted that on the day Donald Trump takes office if he wins the election, the White House will advise all US water systems to remove fluoride from public water.

Kennedy will reportedly have a key role in health policy in a second Trump administration.

Politico cites the American Dental Association as saying that water fluoridation is “safe, effective and healthy,” and that “70 years of research, thousands of studies and the experience of more than 210 million Americans tell us that water fluoridation is effective in preventing cavities and is safe for children and adults.”

In his latest blog for investment platform Saxo, former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci says the Harris campaign is “nauseously optimistic”.

They’re saying they’re nauseously optimistic – not cautiously – they’re nauseously optimistic. They’ve got a pit in their stomach, but they’re looking at their data and they like their data.

They’re looking at the women’s turnout and they like it. The elder vote in Pennsylvania is way down. It means older people are saying, “I’m not going to vote. I don’t like her, so I’m not going to vote for her, but I can’t vote for this anymore”.

His final message to Americans as the country casts their vote is to back Kamala Harris, even if you have to “hold your nose”.

I would be telling them I’m for Harris. While I may not agree with every single policy, she’s a constitutionalist and she’s for our system. He’s talking about shaking the system and going after his enemies.

Imagine a politician who wants to go after his enemies in a democracy that has free speech, versus if you were railing against her and she won, you would have zero worries about her coming against you.

So, I would appeal to their individual liberty and say if Donald Trump is coming after Liz Cheney, which you may think is distant from you, but that’s a domino toppling that’s heading towards you because that’s how really bad things start.

If you don’t like her or her tax policy, hold your nose and vote for her, because she represents a system that has made the country the most prosperous economy in the history of the world.

Donald Trump is still trying to frame his rambling, sometimes incoherent, trains of thought as “The Weave”.

The former president is right about one thing: “Nobody else can do a weave like Trump.”