Harris to visit three swing states as Trump campaigns in hurricane-hit North Carolina

With barely two weeks until election day, neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump appears to have an edge in the presidential race, a new poll suggests.

In the handfull of swing states likely to determine the election, Harris and Trump are tied at 47%, the Washington Post-Schar School poll says.

Those battleground states are Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

The poll suggests Trump is strongest in Arizona - a state Joe Biden won in 2020 - with a six point lead among registered voters.

Harris has her largest margin - six points - in Georgia.

Biden's surprise victory in Georgia in 2020 was the first by a Democrat in decades. It was also Republicans' most narrow defeat.

The BBC is tracking the US election polls here.

Donald Trump doubles-down on 'enemy from within' attack on Pelosi, Schiff

Despite attempts from allies to defend the former president's comments, Donald Trump has doubled down on describing former speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrat Adam Schiff as "enemies from within".

“These are bad people. We have a lot of bad people,” he tells Fox News' MediaBuzz. “But when you look at shifty Schiff and some of the others, yeah, they are to me the enemy from within. I think Nancy Pelosi is an enemy from within.”

Trump allies have been scrambling for over a week to defend him, saying his remarks had been misinterpreted. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Sunday insisted the former president was referring to "marauding gangs" rather than his predecessor and the California senator.

Schiff dismissed his comments on X, while Pelosi’s spokesman Ian Krager said in a statement Trump was “showing himself to be increasingly unhinged and unstable”.

Harris outspends Trump by nearly $200m in September

The campaign for Kamala Harris significantly outspent Donald Trump last month, according to records released by the Federal Election Committee (FEC) yesterday.

The Democratic Party presidential candidate has build up a significant financial advantage over the course of the campaign so far, both outraising and outspending her Republican rival in recent months.

The Harris team disclosed to the FEC that her campaign spent $270m (£207m) in September, compared to $78m for Trump.

The vast majority of both of their expenditures went on campaign advertising, as the presidential race entered its final weeks.

Harris has outraised Trump significantly in money raised by small donors as well, with $220m raised compared to his campaign's $63m.

She also has the edge, if by a smaller margin, in cash on hand available to their respective campaigns - entering October with $187m in the bank, while Trump reported $120m.

Kamala Harris ramps up efforts to win over support in swing states

With only 15 days to go until election day, Kamala Harris has been focusing on the swing states - those that could reasonably be won by either a Democratic or Republican candidate.

After spending the weekend in Georgia and Michigan, she is expected to start her Monday in Pennsylvania for the first of a series of talks across suburban communities in battleground states.

Harris will join Congresswoman Liz Cheney in Chester County, Pennsylvania, for the first event before heading to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, and Oakland County, Michigan.

Donald Trump is in North Carolina, visiting the city of Asheville to see the full damage Hurricane Helene brought to the state last month.

He the will be moving on to Greenville for a rally this afternoon before attending a meeting of 11th Hour Faith leaders alongside his son Eric and former secretary of housing and urban development Dr Ben Carson in Concord, according to his campaign.

-BBC