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Kamala Harris lives her ‘momentum’ in front of Trump with a post-convention rebound in the polls
The Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency, Vice President Kamala Harris, enjoys a sweet moment after the momentum to her candidacy given to her by the party convention held last week, which is already beginning to be seen in the polls, as well as in the records of collection of donations to her campaign.
According to the average of national surveys updated this Sunday by the Washington Post newspaper, Kamala Harris’ advantage continues to grow and currently stands at two percentage points.
Even so, if you take into account the state polls (more representative, since in the United States citizens do not directly elect their president but elect their “voters” or members of the Electoral College, which are distributed according to the population of the state), Donald Trump continues to lead in 4 of the 7 most closely quarreled states.
The former Republican president (2027-2021) is still ahead in North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, although Harris has managed to scratch him an average of three points, since he announced his candidacy a month ago, after the departure of President Joe Biden.
The Democrat is ahead in the other three hinged or purple states, which will have more representativeness on November 5, due to the tightness of their results: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, says the Post.
After four days of convention in Chicago and the speeches of unity around Harris of the most important figures of the party, the vice president officially accepted the nomination for the presidency last Thursday.
These events, broadcast by the main television networks in prime time, usually always leave a rebound in the polls.
In Trump’s team they already counted on it, with this phase of “honeymoon”: “The rebounds after the Convention are a phenomenon that occurs after most party conventions (…) So don’t be surprised to see Harris get a temporary rebound of 2 to 3 points,” says a memorandum distributed yesterday by the Republican’s campaign.
According to the Silver Bulletin website, created by Nate Silver, founder of ABC News’ FiveThirtyEight survey analysis site, Harris has taken a four-point lead in national polls after independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was eliminated from the survey model, after announcing last Friday that he was pausing his campaign to support Trump.
His latest average thus shows Harris with 48.8% of the votes and Donald Trump with 44.8%.
Harris is also going through a sweet moment in terms of collecting donations. The campaign said this Sunday that it has raised 540 million dollars in the last month, “a record for any campaign in history.”
In the three days alone after his acceptance speech on Thursday, he has managed to raise 40 million dollars.
In comparison, the campaign of the former president and Republican candidate, Donald Trump (2017-2021), has announced that it raised about 139 million dollars in July and that it had accumulated about 327 million at the beginning of August.
During this week, Harris and his running mate, the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, will focus on the disputed state of Georgia, which was precisely decisive for Biden to achieve victory in 2020. It was the first time the state supported a Democratic presidential candidate in almost 30 years.
Harris and Walz will take a bus tour, similar to the one before the convention in Pennsylvania, which will culminate with a rally led by Harris on Thursday night in the Savannah area.
For his part, Donald Trump and his vice president candidate, JD Vance, will be in Detroit, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
International
Pope Francis meets former Gaza hostages
Pope Francis met on Thursday at the Vatican with 16 Israelis who had been held hostage in Gaza for months by the Islamist group Hamas, according to the official Vatican news website.
The group consisted of ten women, four men, and two children, as reported by the same source. Several of the former hostages showed the Argentine pontiff banners or photos of their loved ones who remain in captivity.
Francis had previously met with the families of hostages in April this year and November 2023, but this was the first time he had met with individuals who had personally endured captivity.
Since the conflict between Israel and Hamas began, the pope has repeatedly called for the immediate release of Israeli hostages, while also condemning the suffering of the Palestinian population.
The war erupted on October 7, 2023, when Islamist militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,206 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures that include hostages who died in captivity.
Of the kidnapped, 97 are still being held in Gaza, but the Israeli military estimates that 34 of them have died.
The military offensive launched by Israel in response has killed at least 43,736 people in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-governed territory.
International
Israeli airstrikes on Damascus kill 15 and injure 16, including women and children
Israeli forces carried out airstrikes on residential buildings in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and its surroundings on Thursday, resulting in at least 15 deaths and 16 injuries, according to Syria’s Ministry of Defense and state television.
The ministry stated that around 3:20 p.m. local time (12:20 GMT), the Israeli military launched an aerial attack from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights, targeting several residential buildings in the Mazzeh neighborhood in western Damascus and the Qudsaya suburb to the northwest of the capital.
The airstrikes “resulted in the death of 15 people and injuries to 16 others, including women and children,” based on initial estimates, in addition to significant damage to private property and civilian buildings, the ministry added.
Meanwhile, state television reported Israeli airstrikes on three buildings in Mazzeh and another on a building in an educational complex located in a residential area of Qudsaya.
Following the strikes, loud explosions were heard throughout the city, and thick plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the targeted locations. Ambulances and emergency services rushed to the scene to attend to the victims.
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Drug trafficker dies after boat collision with Guardia Civil Vessel in Sanlúca
Three people were on the boat that collided with a Guardia Civil vessel around midnight at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, near the Andalusian city of Cádiz, a spokesperson for the Civil Guard reported.
Two officers sustained “contusions,” the spokesperson explained.
The drug traffickers managed to bring the boat to shore, where one of them was “abandoned” severely injured. The other two fled.
The Civil Guard officers attempted to resuscitate the victim before transporting him to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, but he ultimately died early in the morning.
The other two suspects took advantage of the officers’ absence while they were taking the victim and returned to set their boat on fire.
The collision occurred very close to the site of another accident on September 1, where a drug trafficker died following a Guardia Civil pursuit.
The suspects’ boat traveled “400 meters” before crashing head-on and “at full speed” into the riverbank, where a hundred bundles of hashish were found.
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