Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are in battleground states today as they race to make their final pitches to voters just weeks until Election Day. Harris will participate in a radio interview with Charlamagne tha God in Detroit, Michigan, while Trump tapes a town hall in Georgia before an all-female audience and then speaks about the economy.
Trump’s visit to the pivotal swing state comes as early in-person voting is underway there, and election officials say the Peach State is shattering its early voting turnout record. Early in-person voting begins in North Carolina on Thursday.
The latest CNN Poll of Polls average of national polling still finds no clear leader in the presidential race, with an average of 50% of likely voters supporting Harris and 47% backing Trump.
Conservative megadonor Miriam Adelson gave $95 million to a leading pro-Trump super PAC during the third quarter of this year, according to new Federal Election Commission filings.
Preserve America, the super PAC, received virtually all of its $95 million in third-quarter funding from Adelson, the widow of the late casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, the filing said. The group has taken on a key role, spending tens of millions to support former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.
Both Miriam and Sheldon Adelson are among the largest givers to Republican candidates and causes over the last decade. Miriam Adelson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, by Trump in 2018 and has now given Preserve America $100 million total this year, according to the filing.
The super PAC’s report also showed that it spent nearly all that it raised in the third quarter, dropping nearly $92 million on independent expenditures, mostly TV and digital advertising campaigns, supporting Trump’s third White House bid.
It reported just $7.4 million in cash on hand at the end of September — a shrunken war chest that could limit the group’s ability to place last-minute ad buys in an already inundated presidential race unless Adelson makes additional contributions in October.
