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52% to 46%
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump among likely voters nationwide, 52% to 46%. It’s the same margin as before the debate which voters say Harris won by 58% to 36%.
“You look at Haiti, you look at the demographic makeup, you look at the average I.Q. — if you import the third world into your country, you’re going to become the third world. That’s just basic. It’s not racist. It’s just fact.”
— “Donald Trump Jr. suggested on Thursday that Haitian immigrants were less intelligent than people from other countries, and claimed that there was demographic evidence to back this up. He provided none,” the New York Times reported.
“Well, I’ve given up. Every time I come on I want to really talk to you about substantive issues. I don’t want to talk to you about this clown sh*t.”
— James Carville, when asked on a podcast about Laura Loomer.
50% to 46%
A new Data for Progress survey finds Kamala Harris now leading Donald Trump by four points nationally, 50% to 46%.
“I observed him to be a man who is not mentally fit for the job … He’s a narcissist, and he’s a pathological liar.”
— Former Rep. Jim Greenwood’s (R-PA), on MSNBC, explaining why he’s voting for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.
“We admire Taylor Swift’s music but I don’t think most Americans, whether they like her music or fans of hers or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think if fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans.”
— Vice presidential candidate and Trump running mate JD Vance, as reported by the Daily Beast
“Can someone give this guy a cognitive test? It’s not clear to me that he’s actually mentally fit to do the job.”
— House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), quoted by CNN, on Donald Trump’s performance in this week’s debate.
$47 million
Kamala Harris raised $47 million in the first 24 hours following her debate with Donald Trump on Tuesday night, the New York Times reports. “That tally included donations from 600,000 people. It is her largest 24-hour fund-raising period since an initial burst of donations when she entered the race in July and raised $81 million on the first day.”
306,422
NPR reports that as of 11 a.m. ET Wednesday there have been 306,422 visitors to Vote.gov referred from Taylor Swifts’s Instagram post Tuesday night endorsing Kamala Harris for president.
67 million
New York Times: “Tuesday’s televised clash between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump drew 67.1 million live viewers, according to Nielsen, outdrawing Mr. Trump’s debate in June with President Biden by 31 percent.”
