Trump is likely to face questions at the press conference about racist remarks at the rally; 40,000 people expected for Harris speech – US elections live | US elections 2024

New polls have found that support for Donald Trump among young black men has fallen since August, while support for Kamala Harris has risen.

A new NAACP poll conducted between Oct. 11 and Oct. 17 found that 21% of black men under 50 said they would vote for the former president, up from 27% in August.

Harris' support among this group rose from 51% to 59% over the same period, the researchers said.

Any moment now, Donald Trump will be giving a speech to the press at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

The event was scheduled for 10 a.m. ET, but appears to be about 20 minutes late.

Tuesday morning's news conference comes as Trump and his campaign continue to face backlash over racist and vulgar comments made at Trump's campaign rally in New York City on Sunday.

When Trump opens the floor to questions on Tuesday, it's likely Trump will face questions about the comments at that press conference.

According to the New York Times, the National Park Service is expecting around 40,000 spectators for Kamala Harris' speech at Ellipse Park in Washington DC tonight

Lauren Gambino

Kamala Harris will lay out her vision for the presidency in a speech from the White House tonight to underscore the “gravity” of the election to Americans in November, her campaign chairman said Jen O'Malley Dillon told reporters in a call to preview the speech.

Harris, a former prosecutor, will frame the speech like a closing argument, with the American people as the jury and the campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond. She has been laying out the evidence for the last 100 days and is now ready to rest her case.

Richmond said Harris would use the speech from a website where Trump spoke to his supporters before they stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 to remind Americans that the former president was “so completely out of touch with his grievances and his Power and his endless desire for it.” Revenge for his failure to focus on the needs of the American people.”

Harris is also expected to lay out her personal story and her vision for building the economy and working across party lines to serve “all Americans” – unlike Trump, she will argue, including those who didn't support her .

O'Malley Dillon said the speech was intended to reach voters who haven't yet made up their minds — or aren't sure whether they will vote — young people, those who haven't tuned in, suburban women and independents. O'Malley Dillon said Trump's rhetoric in recent weeks, and particularly his Madison Square Garden rally, appeared to have created even more opportunities for the campaign to reach these voters. Support from her Puerto Rican audience is growing.

“We know there are still many voters who are still thinking about who to support or whether to vote at all,” O'Malley Dillon said. The campaign, she said, views the contests as having a “margin for error.”

USA Today has reportedly joined the Washington Post and LA Times in deciding not to support a presidential candidate in the 2024 election.

USA Today, which includes more than 200 U.S. news outlets including the Arizona Republic, The Des Moines Register and the Detroit Free Press, is one of the highest-circulation daily newspapers in the country.

On Monday, the company said it would not endorse any candidates “in any presidential or national elections” this year, a spokesperson told The Hill.

In the last election, USA Today endorsed Joe Bien for president.

The spokesman said Monday that while the company will not be promoting the presidential election, “local editors at publications across the USA TODAY Network have discretion to assist at the state or local level.”

Former President Donald Trump reportedly told ABC News that he did not hear any of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's comments at Trump's rally in New York on Sunday, including when the comedian called Puerto Rico an “island of floating trash.”

When asked about the comments, Trump reportedly did not condemn them, but rather reiterated that he had not heard them.

Trump also said he didn’t know Hinchcliffe: “I don’t know him; Someone put it there. I don’t know who he is.”