As of September 28, ABC’s Project FiveThirtyEight (538) reported that democratic party nominee and vice president Kamala Harris leads in the polls by a 2.8 lead at 48.6%. 538 also reported that former president and republican party nominee Donald Trump sits at 45.7% in the national polls. Fox 5 Atlanta reported Harris and Trump are aiming to win undecided voters across states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Nevada.
AP News reported on September 27 that Harris made her first appearance in the U.S.-Mexico border last Friday since her nomination as the Democratic Presidential candidate. In an Instagram post on September 29, Harris wrote, “as president, I will secure our border, disrupt the flow of fentanyl coming into the United States, and work to fix our broken system of immigration.” AP News also reported that former president Trump met with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York in an effort to put an end to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
Fox 5 Atlanta has also reported that the Harris-Walz campaign has made efforts to “reach more young Black voters ahead of election day” by kicking off the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Homecoming Tour.
CNN reported that the republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance openly disapproved of President Zelenskyy’s visit to a Pennsylvania ammunition plant instead of showing more thanks to the United States for providing foreign aid. CNN reported that these remarks followed an interview Zelenskyy had with The New Yorker where he called Vance “too radical.”
The Vice Presidential debate was held Tuesday, October 1 in New York. If you missed the debate, the Captain’s Log will recap its key moments in the next issue of the newspaper on October 10.
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