Kamala Harris has overtaken Donald Trump in a new poll in Iowa, a state that the Republican presidential candidate won by a large margin in the last two US elections.

The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll put the Democrat ahead by three points, leading Trump 47% to 44%.

Harris’ lead is within the margin of error of 3.4 percentage points, but marks a notable reversal from an Iowa poll in September that gave Trump a four-point lead, the newspaper reported.

“The poll shows that women — especially those who are older or who are politically independent — are steering the late shift to Harris,” the Register said.

Trump won Iowa, which has trended Republican in recent years, by more than 9 percentage points in 2016 and by 8 points in 2020.

Trump’s campaign released a memo from its top pollster calling the Des Moines Register poll “a clear outlier.”

It said an Emerson College poll that gave Trump a 10-point lead better reflected Iowa’s electorate. That poll also has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.

Whoever wins Iowa will receive six Electoral College votes. It takes a total of 270 to win the White House.

Ahead of Election Day, Germany is eagerly watching to see who Americans will choose as their next American president.

Although officials in Berlin have expressed a desire for productive relations with whoever is elected, a second Trump presidency could spell trouble for Germany.

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With less than 48 hours to go before election day, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will prioritize swing states next Sunday.

Harris is hosting multiple events in Michigan, starting in Detroit, followed by a stop in Pontiac and ending with an evening meeting at Michigan State University.

Trump is gathering supporters in the key swing states of Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

Kamala Harris urged her supporters to “keep calm and carry on” during a surprise appearance on TV’s comedy sketch show “Saturday Night Live.”

The Democratic presidential candidate made her debut on the show, which has featured other presidential candidates throughout its decades-long history.

Donald Trump last appeared on SNL in 2015, where he poked fun at his tendency to exaggerate and evade policy details.

Earlier on Saturday, Harris and Trump’s planes shared the tarmac in Charlotte, North Carolina, as the two candidates held dueling events in the battleground southern state.

The Republican candidate later headed to Virginia, where he predicted he would win not only the Electoral College count, but a majority of votes cast across the country.
“We’re going to win the popular vote,” Trump told the crowd. “I think we have a very good chance of winning the popular vote.”

Meanwhile, the University of Florida’s Election Lab reported that more than 75 million Americans had already cast ballots on Saturday, a sign of voters’ enthusiasm.

nm,dv/lo (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)