Former President Trump is ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to a new poll.
Trafalgar Group conducted the poll, which surveyed 1,078 “likely voters in the 2024 general election,” from 6 to 8 August.
Trump leads Harris 45.9 per cent to 44.4 per cent. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received 3.8 per cent. Trump won Pennsylvania in the 2016 election against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but lost it in 2020 to President Joe Biden.
On Sunday night, as the Paris Olympics wrapped up with an impressive closing ceremony, Donald Trump had something else on his mind: himself.
The former president specifically wrote on his social media platform Truth to take credit for bringing the next Summer Games to Los Angeles. He wrote:
“As President-Elect, I worked with the Olympic Organizing Committee of Los Angeles in getting the 2028 Olympics to come to the United States. There was tremendous competition from other countries.”
A spokesman for then-Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said in November 2016 that Trump planned to support the city’s bid to host a third Olympics. At the time, Los Angeles was competing with Paris and Budapest to host the 2024 Games, though Budapest eventually withdrew its bid. In 2017, the International Olympic Committee confirmed that Paris would host the 2024 event – the French wanted it in part because it last hosted the games exactly a century earlier, in 1924 – while 2028 would go to Los Angeles. Trump wrote in his post, referring to the failed bid to host the 2016 Games in Chicago, which Obama supported:
“President Obama refused to speak to the International Olympic Committee (perhaps because of a previous rejection by them of a proposal personally made by him!), which needed the enthusiastic support and approval of the U.S. – Without which they would not have chosen our Country. I gave them what they wanted to hear, and got the job done! It was my great honor to do so. Hopefully I will be President, and our Country will have reached new (and record!) levels of success. SEE YOU IN 2028. Thank you!”
Trump’s boastful post at the end of this year’s Games came after he called the opening ceremony a “disgrace.” The former president made the comment in an interview with Fox News, in which he was referring to a part of the ceremony involving a drag persona that some Christians believe mocked Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” (but was actually meant to be a reference to Greek mythology).
Trump said last month:
“I thought it was terrible.”
When asked what would happen at the 2028 Games if he became president, he had the following response:
“We’re not going to have the Last Supper as it was portrayed last night.”
