Poll: Harris must fight for male votes

Harris is behind Trump in polls among men. The Republican made a surprising statement in a speech. All information in the news blog.

2.30 am: According to a new survey by YouGov and the “Economist”, only 39 percent of the men surveyed want to vote for American Vice President Kamala Harris, while 47 percent voted for Donald Trump. 1,4356 registered voters were surveyed between July 21 and 23. The margin of error is 3.1 percentage points. In a similar survey by Emerson College, Trump was ahead of the Democrat among men. In the US state of Michigan, he is 16 percentage points ahead of male voters. A survey by the “New York Times” and Siena College had Trump with 56 percent ahead of Harris (37 percent) among men.

11.10pm: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke out in favor of a crypto-friendly policy at the Bitcoin conference in Nashville. He announced that if he were re-elected, he would fire the head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, on his first day in office. The SEC under Gensler is skeptical about cryptocurrencies. “Bitcoin stands for freedom, sovereignty and independence from state coercion and control,” said Trump.

Trump promised to set up a Bitcoin and Crypto Advisory Council in the White House. In the first 100 days of his term, the council would draft “transparent regulatory guidelines for the benefit of the entire industry.” There will be rules, but they will be made by people “who love your industry, not hate it,” Trump said.

19:07: Two weeks after the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate has declared that he will continue to hold campaign events outdoors. The Secret Service has agreed to “significantly increase security measures,” Trump said on his online network Truth Social. “They are perfectly capable of doing so.” He added that “no one should ever stop or impede free speech or assembly.”

18:33: Donald Trump’s running mate is becoming an increasing problem for the former president. Rumors are already circulating that Vance is to be removed from office. But is that even possible? Read more about it here.

16:59: JD Vance has had many different names in his life. Read here how it came about.

4.15 am: At an appearance in Florida on Friday evening (local time), Donald Trump called on his supporters to vote – and surprised everyone with a statement. “You have to vote. Then you won’t have to do it anymore. In four years it will be fixed, everything will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore,” Trump told Christian supporters. Trump repeated his unsubstantiated accusation that the Democrats wanted to cheat in the election and promised to fix the alleged problems in the electoral system as president so that his Christian supporters would only have to vote this one time.

Observers expect the presidential election to be a close one, with the decisive factor being who gets more voters to the polls. Trump has therefore given up his opposition to mail-in voting, which he had previously described as fraudulent.

Without directly addressing Trump’s speech, Kamala Harris’ campaign posted on X a short time later: “To Trump and his Project 2025: We are not going back.” Project 2025 is a utopian vision of a conservative think tank that wants to give the US president significantly more power and publicly fill offices with Trump followers. Trump had said he had nothing to do with the project.

It is unclear whether Trump simply meant that after an election victory, it would no longer matter whether many voters would vote in 2028 because he would then be safely in the saddle, or whether there was another reason why people would no longer vote. If Trump won the election in 2024, he would not be able to run again because US presidents can only serve a maximum of eight years in office.