News blog on the US election
New poll: Trump’s lead shrinks
Updated on 27.07.2024 – 02:42Reading time: 5 min.
In polls, Trump is slightly ahead of the Vice President. In a post on his own platform, the former President attacks the FBI director. All information in the news blog.
2 O ‘clock: Two weeks after the fatal shooting at a campaign rally in the US state of Pennsylvania, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced a return to the site of the attack. He will return to Butler, Pennsylvania, to hold a “big and wonderful” rally, the 78-year-old announced on his online mouthpiece Truth Social. “What a day it will be – fight, fight, fight!” wrote the Republican in capital letters. He did not provide any further details about the timing.
1.35 am: The FBI has confirmed that former US President Donald Trump was wounded in the ear by a bullet at a campaign event in the state of Pennsylvania. “What hit former President Trump in the ear was a whole bullet or one that had been broken into smaller pieces and was fired from the deceased’s rifle,” the FBI said in a statement provided to the German Press Agency in Washington.
11.40pm: According to a new poll by the Wall Street Journal, Trump is slightly ahead of Harris. However, Trump’s lead over President Joe Biden, who withdrew from the race for the presidential election in November a few days ago, was larger in the previous survey. In the current survey of 1,000 registered voters, Trump received 49 percent and Harris 47 percent. In the previous survey, Trump had a lead of 6 percentage points over Biden. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
11.30pm: Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance has defended his sexist statements about childless women. “The simple argument I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really believe it changes your perspective. And in a pretty profound way,” Vance said in an interview. The media were misrepresenting his statements. Rather, he wanted to make it clear that the Democratic Party had become hostile to families and children. He did not want to criticize women who do not have children.
In an interview with Fox News in 2021, Vance, now 39, described leading Democratic politicians – including Vice President Kamala Harris – as “childless cat women” who were unhappy with their lives. The comments have now resurfaced on social media and have sparked much criticism.
18:16: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is harshly attacking FBI Director Christopher Wray after a statement about the assassination attempt on Trump. On his own platform “Truth Social,” the former president writes: “FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he was not sure if I was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet (The FBI did not even check!).”
Trump further writes: “No, unfortunately it was a bullet that hit my ear, and it hit hard. There was no glass or shrapnel. The hospital called it a ‘Gunshot wound to the ear’ and it was. No wonder the once respected FBI has lost the trust of Americans!”. In addition, according to Trump, these and other misjudgments by the FBI director are the reason why “he knows nothing about the terrorists and other criminals who are streaming into our country in record numbers.”
Earlier this week, Wray said in a hearing of the US Congress’s Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that Trump may not have been hit in the ear by a bullet in the July 13 assassination attempt, but by shrapnel. In his post on “Truth Social,” Trump also criticized the FBI director for his alleged previous statement that Joe Biden was physically and mentally fit. That was “wrong!”, Trump said.
Obama supports Harris’ candidacy
11.05 am: Former US President Barack Obama is supporting current Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid to be the Democratic presidential candidate. “Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to support you and do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office,” Obama says in a video showing him calling Harris.