2024 election polls live updates: Trump and Kamala Harris are tied in Pennsylvania, new poll shows

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are tied in Pennsylvania, the battleground state that could decide the election, a new poll shows.

The Keystone State is seen as critical in the path to victory for each candidate, and DailyMail.com’s election model has consistently shown the result there will ultimately determine the race.

Fifty-one percent of voters in the survey said Trump would be better for their financial situation, compared to 48 percent for Harris.

Among independent voters, 50 percent sided with Trump while just 38 percent selected Harris.

Half of the respondents said the economy was the top issue, with 60 percent saying they are worse off than they were five years ago.

Pro-life activists have warned that Melania Trump's backing of abortion rights could undercut former president Trump's message on this issue in the lead up to the November election.

The former First Lady, 54, reveals in her upcoming memoir, due out next week, that she supports a woman's right to choose as a staunch defender of 'individual liberty' and 'personal freedom' - a position she has held for her 'entire adult life'.

'It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,' she writes in the book.

But pro-life activists were quick to blast Melania for having an opinion that differs from her husband's.

Kristan Hawkins, president of the Students for Life of America, wrote on Twitter/X: 'It’s hard to follow the logic of putting out the former First Lady’s book right before the election undercutting President Trump’s message to pro-life voters. What a waste of momentum.'

Kamala Harris will be joined by Liz Cheney, one of Donald Trump's fiercest Republican critics, on the campaign trail in Wisconsin on Thursday.

The two will appear together in a historic white schoolhouse in Ripon, where a series of meetings held in 1854 to oppose slavery's expansion led to the birth of the Republican Party.

bThe move sees Harris aiming to reaching out to moderate voters and rattle the former president.

Cheney was the top Republican on the House committee that investigated Trump's role in the events of January 6, 2021.

It earned her Trump's disdain and effectively exiled her from her own party.

Cheney lost her Wyoming seat to a Trump-endorsed candidate two years ago and she endorsed Harris, the Democratic nominee, last month.

Vice President Kamala Harris is slightly trailing former President Donald Trump with Arab Americans, according to polling released Wednesday from the Arab American Institute.

The survey found that 42 percent of likely voters preferred Trump, while 41 percent backed Harris. Twelve percent plan to back a third-party candidate.

Normally Democrats have a 2-to-1 advantage with this group.

But polling found that 'it's Trump who is the beneficiary of the community's anger and despair over the Biden Administration’s failure to prevent the unfolding genocide in Gaza,' a release said.

The poll found that by a small percentage - 46 percent to 43 percent - Arab Americans also preferred that Republicans have control of Congress.