US election: Democratic Senator: Trump is “undeniably popular”

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Lerato Khumalo

Democrats are banking on Taylor Swift’s influence in a new social media campaign. Elon Musk rails against ZDF. All information in the news blog.

5.40 a.m.: Elon Musk is giving away a million dollars every day to someone who signs his online petition in support of the US Constitution. This will apply until the election in November, the billionaire promised on Saturday (local time) at a campaign event for Republican Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. He also wasted no time handing over a million dollar check to one attendee. The winner was a man named John Dreher, according to event staff. “By the way, John had no idea. So there you go,” said Musk, ranked the world’s richest person by Forbes, as he handed Dreher the check.

4.30 a.m.: A quarter of home visits by Trump campaign workers in Arizona and Nevada may be fake. According to data obtained by The Guardian, poll workers paid by the Elon Musk-backed America Pac may have only pretended to knock on the doors of potential voters. Of 35,692 alleged home visits in Arizona, 8,511 were flagged as suspicious by the tracking app. The revelation could hit Trump hard shortly before the election – especially since the race between him and Kamala Harris is currently very close. Read more about the revelations here.

1.40 a.m.: Former US President Donald Trump says he was called and consulted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu would not listen to President Joe Biden’s advice in the current situation and called him on Saturday, the Republican presidential candidate said at a campaign event in Latrobe in the embattled state of Pennsylvania. Biden always just tells Netanyahu “Don’t do this, don’t do that, don’t do that,” criticized Trump.

Trump repeatedly accuses Biden of slowing down Netanyahu and his government in times of war and not providing enough support. During his visit to the USA in July, Netanyahu met Biden and his deputy Kamala Harris as well as Trump at his estate in Florida.

0.55 a.m.: The Democratic Senator for the US state of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, sees a “damn close” race for election victory. He noticed a lot of energy for Donald Trump. But people would also be enthusiastic about Kamala Harris. Still, “His campaign is successful in Pennsylvania, and he is undeniably popular, and it will be very close,” he told US magazine Politico. According to the politician, sending Elon Musk as a helper would be well received by the population.

But he doesn’t want to give Kamala Harris any advice, but rather continues to fight for votes himself. Pennsylvania is considered one of the swing states that Harris must win. According to calculations by the poll website FiveThirtyEight, Harris is narrowly ahead of Trump with 47.7 percent at 47.9 percent.

12:28 p.m.: Elon Musk attacked ZDF on his short message service X. The Tesla boss shared a picture from the ZDF “Politbarometer”. It shows a survey in which participants were asked whether Kamala Harris will win the race for the US presidential election in November or whether Donald Trump will be victorious. 72 percent of those surveyed in the survey voted for a Democrat to win.