Trump and Harris polls tighten with days to go as former president sues CBS News for $10bn: 2024 election live updates

Donald Trump is suing CBS News for $10bn alleging that the 60 Minutes interview with his rival Kamala Harris was deceptively edited to unlawfully influence the 2024 presidential election.

Thursday’s long-shot claim, filed less than a week before Election Day, follows his obsessive attacks on CBS and threats to revoke its license.

With five days of campaigning to go in the 2024 race, Harris and Trump are making their final pitches to voters, spending Thursday at rallies across the crucial Sun Belt states of Arizona and Nevada.

The Democratic presidential nominee hit back at her Republican rival after he vowed to “protect” women “whether the women like it or not” at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday.

“Donald Trump thinks he should get to make decisions about what you do with your body. Whether you like it or not,” Harris posted on X.

In a bizarre stunt prior to that speech, Trump had posed in a garbage truck dressed as a sanitation worker in an attempt to troll Harris and Joe Biden after the latter allegedly called MAGA voters “garbage” in anger over comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s already-notorious Madison Square Garden joke about Puerto Rico.

Key Points

• National polling average shows Harris down to a 1.2% lead over Trump

• Trump files $10bn lawsuit against CBS News over Kamala Harris interview

• Kamala Harris campaign hits back at Donald Trump’s vow to ‘protect’ women ‘whether the women like it or not’

• Trump prolongs uproar over Puerto Rico slur with garbage truck stunt

• Elon Musk fails to show up in court for $1m sweepstakes hearing

• Harris leads Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan in latest polling

Arizona enlists county employees to help tackle a surge of 2-page early ballots

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Employees for Arizona’s most populous county have been reassigned to help election workers with an around-the-clock operation to process early ballots that are an unusually long two pages.

Election officials in Maricopa County must verify each voter’s signature on early ballot envelopes and then remove the ballot pages so they can be prepared for actual counting. The county was unsure how long it would need to keep up the 24-hour operation, which kicked off Thursday night.

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Arizona enlists county employees to help tackle a surge of 2-page early ballots

Watch: Harris warns of ‘unstable’ Trump ‘out for unchecked power’

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Watch: Harris says her mother would tell her ‘just go beat him’

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‘Dude’s nearly 80’: Walz takes a shot at Trump’s age after garbage truck gaffe

00:40 , Oliver O’Connell

Tim Walz took a shot at Donald Trump’s age after his garbage truck campaign stunt.

Walz, speaking in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on Thursday, slammed the septuagenarian after he flew to Wisconsin, donned a bright orange safety vest, and got into a garbage truck in an attempt to troll Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Katie Hawkinson has the story.

Walz takes a shot at Trump’s age after garbage truck gaffe: ‘Dude’s nearly 80’

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Did the teleprompter loop around? Trump again claims he’s the father of IVF:

Perhaps more alarmingly, Trump says Robert F Kennedy Jr is going to work on women’s health in his administration:

Watch LIVE: Kamala Harris campaigns in Reno, Nevada

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Watch: Trump tells crowd he sued CBS, says network and ABC should lose licenses

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Trump looks better now than he did in 2016, gush JD Vance and Joe Rogan

00:20 , Oliver O’Connell

JD Vance sat down with Joe Rogan for an interview on his podcast, broadcast on Thursday, and soon both were gushing that Donald Trump looks better now than he did in 2016.

The bold claim came early on in the Republican vice presidential nominee’s appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience when the host asked him whether he had any doubts about becoming Trump’s running mate.

Rogan references the enormous change the role brings to a person’s life and the intense responsibility the job entails.

“Everybody’s watched presidents age radically, dramatically,” he said, adding: “Everyone but Trump.”

Vance responded: “Yeah, it’s kind of amazing.”

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JD Vance and Joe Rogan gush that Trump looks better now than he did in 2016

Trump tells crowd Democrats treat them like garbage, call them names

00:23 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump tells the crowd in Henderson, Nevada that the Democrats “treat you like garbage”.

He adds: “For the last nine years, Kamala and her party have called you racists, bigots, fascists, deplorables, irredeemables, even Nazis. And they called me Hitler.”

National polling average shows Harris down to a 1.2% lead over Trump

00:11 , Oliver O’Connell

The FiveThirtyEight national polling average for the 2024 election has Kamala Harris’s lead narrowing to 1.2 per cent over Donald Trump.

The candidates continued their sweep across the Sun Belt battleground states on Thursday, with rallies in Arizona and Nevada. Both will then head to the Midwest on Friday.

Watch: Trump repeats odd claim Democrats don’t want windows in buildings

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Meanwhile, back in Henderson, Nevada

00:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Meanwhile, back at the Trump rally, things are going pretty much as expected.

The former president has said he will “put the drug smugglers and human traffickers right out business” if elected and will enforce the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who commit murder.

Referring to Joe Biden’s “garbage” gaffe, Trump says: “How stupid is a man to say that? But she believes it too. I’d love to hear that conversation.”

Returning to the topic a little later, he says: “Two days ago Joe Biden called our supporters ‘garbage’. That’s nasty. I think that’s worse than ‘deplorables’… My supporters are far higher quality than Crooked Joe… My response to Joe and Kamala is simple: you can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans.”

Full story: Lebron James shares presidential endorsement

Thursday 31 October 2024 23:55 , Oliver O’Connell

In a message posted to his X/Twitter account, LeBron James wrote: “What are we even talking about here?? When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me.”

Kevin E G Perry reports.

Lebron James shares presidential endorsement with 2024 election just days away

Both Trump and Harris will campaign in Milwaukee tomorrow night

Thursday 31 October 2024 23:51 , Oliver O’Connell

As the 2024 election campaign narrows to just a few battleground states and the clock ticks down to November 5, it is perhaps not entirely surprising to see both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will be campaigning in Milwaukee in the crucial state of Wisconsin on Friday night.

Former President Trump will be back the FiServ Forum, the site of the Republican National Convention in July, with the program starting at 8pm CT (doors at 4pm).

The “When We Vote We Win Rally” with Vice President Harris features special guest Cardi B featuring performances by DJ GEMINI GILLY, Flo Milli, GloRilla, The Isley Brothers, and MC Lyte. That will take place at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center from 6pm to 10pm CT.

Another milestone in Georgia early voting

Thursday 31 October 2024 23:40 , Oliver O’Connell

“On Thursday, Georgia voters exceeded 50% statewide turnout among active voters, with 3,653,333 Georgians having cast ballots, 3,426,851 of those voting early,” says a press release from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.

Trump speaking in Henderson, Nevada

Thursday 31 October 2024 23:24 , Oliver O’Connell

Taking to the stage 40 minutes late after an extended playlist of his Broadway favorites, Donald Trump begins his rally: “Five days!… We’re doing great in Nevada.”

“I’d like to start with a very simple question: are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

The crowd responds loudly: “No!”

After accusing Kamala Harris of lying every time she gets on stage, Trump then says: “I feel like I’m the father of IVF.”

Watch: Trump acts out mock Harris and Biden ‘phone call’

Thursday 31 October 2024 23:20 , Oliver O’Connell

Trump acts out mock Harris and Biden ‘phone call’ in new ‘garbage’ dig

Biden calls Democrat leaders and candidates

Thursday 31 October 2024 23:02 , Oliver O’Connell

Per the White House:

This afternoon, President Biden called DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison, DCCC Chairwoman Suzan DelBene, and DGA Chair Laura Kelly to discuss the state of races across the country. The President also called North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein to wish him luck in his gubernatorial race.

Madonna shares presidential endorsement as she flies home from Paris to vote

Thursday 31 October 2024 23:00 , Meredith Clark

Madonna has revealed who she’s voting for in the 2024 US presidential election.

The pop superstar, 66, took to Instagram on Thursday (October 31) to share her endorsement just days before the election. In her post, the “Like a Virgin” singer shared snaps from her recent trip to Paris, France. However, Madonna explained that she promptly returned home to cast her vote for president.

“Paris was so FUN! It was hard to leave, but I had to come home to V.O.T.E,” she captioned her post, along with two American flag emojis.

Madonna shares presidential endorsement as she flies home from Paris to vote

Trump ‘devalues’ women making own choices, says Harris

Thursday 31 October 2024 22:50 , Oliver O’Connell

Commenting on Donald Trump’s statement on Wednesday night that he would be a protector of women whether they like it or not, Kamala Harris told Yamiche Alcindor of NBC News: “Well, I’ll just speak on behalf of myself, but also the Americans that I speak with every day around our country, regardless of their gender, which is the majority of Americans, believe that women are intelligent enough and should have and be respected for their agency to make decisions for themselves about what is in their best interest, and not have their government, and certainly not Donald Trump telling them what to do.

“And his latest comment is just the most recent in a series of examples that we have seen from him, in his words and deeds, about he de- how he devalues the ability of women to have the choice and the freedom to make decisions about their own body.”

WATCH: Data analyst reveals three obvious signs that Trump could beat Harris

Thursday 31 October 2024 22:40 , Gustaf Kilander

Harris promises ‘package of bills’ to bring down cost of living on day one

Thursday 31 October 2024 22:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Speaking to Yamiche Alcindor of NBC News, Kamala Harris was asked about her day one priorities for executive action.

Harris replied: “Well, my first priority, which will be probably the package of bills, is about bringing down the cost of living. So it’s about housing, it’s about child care, it’s about what we need to do to deal with grocery prices. So it’s not one, it’s a package that is with one singular purpose, bringing down the cost of living.”

Watch LIVE: Trump holds rally in Henderson, Nevada

Thursday 31 October 2024 22:28 , Oliver O’Connell

Kamala Harris has a closing argument. Donald Trump has something else

Thursday 31 October 2024 22:20 , John Bowden

The last full week of the 2024 campaign is finally, mercifully, almost over.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are neck-and-neck in national polling, as they’ve been for months. In more than a half-dozen swing states, the margins separating the candidates are very close — and either candidate could clearly pull ahead by Monday.

There are signs, however, of which way this thing may be going. Harris is closing, by any honest account, with a show of strength. Her thousands-strong crowd on the Ellipse on Wednesday, not to mention the thousands more turned away for lack of space, was a shot directly across the bow of Trump, whose own crowd began abandoning him once again last week in Michigan. The former president kept his supporters waiting for hours while he talked to Joe Rogan.

Kamala Harris has a closing argument. Donald Trump has… something else

Harris: ‘Most Americans ‘exhausted’ by Trump’s rhetoric, ‘ready to turn the page’

Thursday 31 October 2024 22:10 , Oliver O’Connell

In an exclusive interview, Yamiche Alcindor of NBC News asked Kamala Harris about Donald Trump riding around on a garbage truck in an attempt to draw attention to Joe Biden’s comments on Tuesday night and whether the president’s comments may have undermined her own messaging about being a president for all Americans.

Vice President Harris responded: “Well, I’ve addressed how I feel about those comments. One, that the President explained what he meant, but two, I do not believe, and I will speak for myself, that we should ever criticize people based on who they vote for.

“But let’s understand again, where we are in this election. On the one hand, you have Donald Trump, who refers to people by the most demeaning words, who attempts to really take from them the dignity that they so rightly deserve. He is someone who talks full-time about the enemy within. He speaks ill of America. He refers to us as a garbage can, and he does not understand that most people are exhausted with his rhetoric, exhausted with that approach, exhausted with an approach that Donald Trump has is trying to divide our country and have Americans point fingers at each other.

“They’re done with it, and they’re ready to turn the page and accept and receive a new generation of leadership, which I offer.”

When will we know who won the 2024 presidential election? Experts weigh in on how it could play out

Thursday 31 October 2024 22:03 , Oliver O’Connell

It’s been a dramatic, high-stakes presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

The polls are neck-and-neck and analysts are reluctant to make a solid prediction for which candidate will win.

Now, the question many are asking is: When will the race be called?

The result is called by the media in the days or week(s) after November 5 but this is only ever a projection, with the election officially certified on January 6 by Congress.

Experts said that the timeline for calling the race largely depends on two things: how close the election is in individual states and the specific laws of those states regarding counting votes and potential recounts, which all vary.

When will we know who won the 2024 presidential election? Experts weigh in

Watch: LeBron James endorses Kamala Harris

Thursday 31 October 2024 21:58 , Oliver O’Connell

LeBron James has endorsed Kamala Harris posting a video excoriating Donald Trump and his campaign — notably including racist remarks about Black people made by a comedian at his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.

The basketball legend writes: “What are we even talking about here?? When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!”

BREAKING: Trump files $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News over Kamala Harris interview

Thursday 31 October 2024 21:50 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump is suing CBS News for $10 billion, alleging that the network deceptively edited an interview with his rival Kamala Harris to unlawfully influence the 2024 presidential election.

The lawsuit, filed in Texas, accuses CBS of “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion calculated to … confuse, deceive, and mislead the public” and “attempt to tip the scales” in favor of the Democratic nominee.

Alex Woodward reports.

Trump files $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News over Kamala Harris interview

MAGA fans keep calling Trump’s top team The Avengers. Here’s how the actual Avengers are voting

Thursday 31 October 2024 21:40 , Kevin E G Perry

Voters assemble! The United States presidential election is now just a week away, and the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump still looks too close to call.

Yesterday, actor Zachary Levi appeared on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show to weigh in with the political wisdom he’s gained as the star of Shazam and Harold and the Purple Crayon. The 44-year-old told the former Fox News presenter that his vote for Trump will actually be a vote for: “Donald Trump and Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk and JD Vance.” Levi went on to describe this line-up as: “this team – this Avengers, this Voltron, whatever you want to call it.”

It’s a bold comparison that Trump fans like to make, even though their candidate once compared himself to the supervillain Thanos, but it seems unlikely to be welcomed by the people who actually play the Avengers.

Here’s how the likes of Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth and Samuel L Jackson will really be casting their vote:

MAGA fans call Trump’s team The Avengers. Here’s how the actual Avengers are voting

Trump demands dance break as medics tend to incident at New Mexico rally

Thursday 31 October 2024 21:20 , Lucy Leeson

Donald Trump demanded a dance break as medics tended to an incident at his New Mexico rally.

The former US president was addressing the crowd at his rally on Thursday (31 October), when he noticed someone appeared to have been taken ill.

“Are they OK?”, he asked.

A doctor then appeared to tend to the person.

Trump said: “Thank you, doctor, take your time. We always have good doctors.”

Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America.

“Put it on and my people can move on.”

Elon Musk blows off court hearing on $1 million voter sweepstakes

Thursday 31 October 2024 21:00 , Alex Woodward

Elon Musk was a no-show at a mandatory court appearance in Philadelphia on Thursday, after a judge ordered the billionaire and representatives of his Donald Trump-supporting political action committee to a hearing over a lawsuit targeting his $1 million sweepstakes to Pennsylvania voters.

On Wednesday, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner — who is trying to block the world’s wealthiest man and his America PAC from an “illegal lottery scheme” to influence voters — warned a judge that Musk’s X posts against the lawsuit have inspired an “avalanche” of attacks, including antisemitic abuse and calls for masked intruders to invade the DA’s home.

Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas Judge Angelo Foglietta moved an upcoming hearing on the lawsuit to Thursday morning. The judge ordered that all parties must be present.

Elon Musk blows off court hearing on $1 million voter sweepstakes

Republican Larry Hogan believes he can convince Democrats to vote for him as Election Day draws near

Thursday 31 October 2024 20:40 , John Bowden

Thursday was the perfect weather to do some last-minute voter canvassing. Larry Hogan said he might just do that.

Maryland’s former two-term governor is in the home stretch of a Senate campaign which began only in February — a run, he says, that was born out of frustration over the inaction just a short drive away in Washington, particularly as the Senate this year failed to reach a compromise (once again) on border security and immigration reform.

He was outside of the Odenton library on Thursday with less than a week to go in the election, revving up a small crowd of volunteers who were greeting early voters. Hogan spoke to a handful of supporters and journalists on scene and projected confidence, remarking that in every race he’d run, “everyone has always counted us out, and we’ve always come out on top”.

The Senate race where Democrats are voting for a Republican

Michael Bloomberg announces vote for Harris

Thursday 31 October 2024 20:20 , Gustaf Kilander

Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, announced on Thursday that he voted for Kamala Harris.

“I voted for @KamalaHarris without hesitation. When it comes to policy and personal integrity, the contrast could not be clearer, and I hope undecided voters with a history of supporting candidates in both parties join me,” he wrote on X.

He added in an op-ed that he’s been “impressed” with Harris and her outreach efforts to “independents and Republicans and rallying voters of all parties by offering a positive vision of the country.”

Live: Kamala Harris campaigns in Phoenix

Thursday 31 October 2024 20:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump claims he doesn’t want to ‘end Obamacare’

Thursday 31 October 2024 19:46 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump lambasted Harris for saying that he wants to “end Obamacare,” which he and Congressional Republicans attempted to do several times during his presidency.

“We’ve come up with something better that will be great, and everybody wants that because Obamacare sort of sucks. It’s too expensive for the people,” Trump said.

Trump calls electric vehicle initiatives ‘gestapo stuff’

Thursday 31 October 2024 19:39 , Gustaf Kilander

Jack Smith responds to Trump’s latest motion to dismiss election interference case

Thursday 31 October 2024 19:35 , Alex Woodward

Just in: Jack Smith responds to Trump’s latest motion to dismiss his election interference case on grounds that the special counsel is illegally appointed/funded.

Smith argues that Trump failed to make a timely request — he could’ve argued this ages ago — and that he’s relying on “deeply flawed” arguments that aren’t backed by case law or precedent.

Trump blasts Biden for ‘garbage’ comments

Thursday 31 October 2024 19:27 , Gustaf Kilander

The former president responded to Biden seemingly calling Trump supporters “garbage.”

“Two days ago, Joe Biden called our supporters garbage, you’re garbage. He called you garbage. He called all of us garbage,” Trump said in New Mexico. “I remember the word ‘deplorable.’ You remember the word. How did that work out Hillary? Not too good. But they mean it, even though, without question, my supporters are of far higher quality, and I think much smarter than crooked Joe or lyin’ Kamala.”

“For the past nine years, Kamala and her party have called us racist bigots, fascists, deplorables, irredeemable Nazis, and they called me Hitler. I’m Hitler. That’s what they say,” he added. “They bullied you, they’ve demeaned you, they’ve demonized us. They’ve censored us, de-platformed us, and weaponized the power of our government against their political opponent – me.”

VIDEO: Trump mocks Harris and Biden phone call in new ‘garbage’ dig

Thursday 31 October 2024 19:20 , Noopur Jambhekar

Trump says US is ‘picking up’ China’s ‘garbage’

Thursday 31 October 2024 19:20 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump claimed that the US is “picking up” China’s “garbage” as he blasted green policies.

“We’re out there nice clean air, but the air from China blows over our country every three and a half to four days, and when they dump their garbage into the ocean, it floats on by in the Pacific, it floats on by Los Angeles. It’s a lovely sight to see,” Trump said.

Crowd chants ‘God bless Trump’ amid apparent medical emergency

Thursday 31 October 2024 19:00 , Gustaf Kilander

As a doctor appeared to deal with a medical emergency in the crowd, the audience chanted “USA” and “God Bless Trump.”

The former president then requested that his team play God Bless America, but the team played Trump’s intro song God Bless the USA instead.

Trump plays video of mother blaming Harris for death of 12-year-old daughter

Thursday 31 October 2024 18:57 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump played a video showing a mother speaking about the murder of her 12-year-old daughter, blaming Kamala Harris and Democratic border policies.

“There are hundreds and even thousands of cases like that, and it’s people coming into this country that are horrible people, horrible people, I don’t like saying that, but they’re horrible people,” Trump said. “And they come in totally unvetted, totally unchecked through this ridiculous open border policy that she and the radical left have.”

Trump claims about winning New Mexico twice fact checked: ‘Just so much wild lying’

Thursday 31 October 2024 18:52 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump conducts impromptu ‘poll’

Thursday 31 October 2024 18:47 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump conducted an impromptu “poll” during his New Mexico rally about whether Hispanic people prefer the term Latino.

The crowd at the rally strongly showed their preference for the term Hispanic.

Trump appeared to attempt to improve his relationship with Hispanic voters, showering them with praise, after several speakers at his Sunday event at Madison Square Garden made denigrating comments about the group, including one calling Puerto Rico an “island of floating garbage.”

‘At least, Hillary was intelligent’

Thursday 31 October 2024 18:41 , Gustaf Kilander

As Trump lambasted Kamala Harris during his rally in New Mexico on Thursday, he said, “She’s worse than crooked Hillary. At least, Hillary was intelligent. She was a very intelligent one. This one is a total stiff. You can’t have her as your president.”

“She’s talking about, ‘we’re going to have unity.’ And then she calls me a fascist, just in the next sentence,” Trump added.

“Hillary was a liar and a scoundrel and a horrible human being, but she didn’t lie as much as Kamala,” he claimed, before adding that he would expand fracking operations.

‘Your votes are rigged, we can win New Mexico’

Thursday 31 October 2024 18:37 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump opened his New Mexico rally by claiming that he could win the state which has not voted for a Republican for president since 2004.

“They all said, ‘Don’t come. I said, why? You can’t win New Mexico. I said, Look, your votes are rigged.’ We can win New Mexico,” Trump told the Halloween audience.

“Why they don’t want to stop the people pouring across the border that are murderers. They’re killers, they’re drug addicts, they’re drug dealers, they’re gang members. Why do Mexico want to keep it going like it is? So you know, we almost won it twice,” he added.

Trump suggested that he could win heavily Democratic states like California as long as the votes are “honest.”

Harris campaign publishes ad referencing Trump comedian’s ‘island of garbage’ joke

Thursday 31 October 2024 18:20 , Gustaf Kilander

Live: Trump holds New Mexico rally on Halloween

Thursday 31 October 2024 18:01 , Gustaf Kilander

Former Trump attorney has law license suspended for 2020 plot

Thursday 31 October 2024 18:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Kenneth Chesebro’s law license in New York has been suspended over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

The attorney, who helped put together the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot, pleaded guilty in October last year to being part of a conspiracy in the Georgia election subversion case.

In June of this year, Chesebro was charged with forgery in Wisconsin by the state’s attorney general.

Jesse Watters tells his wife that secretly voting for Kamala Harris would be like ‘having an affair’

Thursday 31 October 2024 17:40 , Gustaf Kilander

Fox News host Jesse Watters said during a segment of The Five that if his wife secretly voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, it would be “like having an affair.”

The panel was discussing a recent Harris campaign ad voiced by actress Jessica Roberts, suggesting to women that they can vote for the VP without telling their Trump-backing husbands.

Watters admitted in 2018 that his relationship with his now-wife Emma DiGiovine began as an affair during his first marriage. DiGiovine was a producer on his show at the time, according to Mediaite. The affair led to Watters’s first wife filing for divorce.

Jesse Watters says secretly voting for Kamala Harris would be like ‘having an affair’

Walz says women voters will ‘send a loud and clear message to Donald Trump’

Thursday 31 October 2024 17:20 , Gustaf Kilander

Tim Walz said on Thursday that women voters will “send a loud and clear message to Donald Trump … whether he likes it or not.”

The Harris campaign has seized on comments from Trump on Wednesday night saying that he would protect women whether they “like it or not.”

Liz Cheney calls Charlie Kirk a ‘twit’ as he slams Harris campaign over ad aimed at women

Thursday 31 October 2024 17:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who has endorsed Harris, called rightwing activist Charlie Kirk a “twit as he lambasted the Democrat’s campaign for urging women to vote for the vice president without telling their husbands.

Two-thirds of Americans are anxious about the election, new poll finds

Thursday 31 October 2024 16:40 , Joe Sommerlad

Most Americans are anxious and frustrated right now but also gripped by the campaign for the White House as it enters its final days, according to a new poll.

While Democrats and Republicans largely have similar emotions about the upcoming showdown, the former are more likely to be anxious compared to their conservative counterparts, according to the AP-NORC poll.

Gustaf Kilander has more.

Two-thirds of Americans are anxious about the election, new poll finds

‘I went trick-or-treating with the Bidens. The scariest thing there was the president’

Thursday 31 October 2024 16:25 , Joe Sommerlad

Our White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg just returned from a Halloween visit at the White House – and a tough talk with some anxious Democratic operatives.

I went trick-or-treating with the Bidens. The scariest thing there was the president

Jake Paul endorses Trump

Thursday 31 October 2024 16:10 , Joe Sommerlad

You probably already know whether this matters to you but, if not, here’s the social media personality and boxer explaining himself – and admitting to being nervous about what his decision might mean for his career if it doesn’t pay off.

Jake Paul admits he’s ‘nervous’ as he reveals presidential endorsement in new video

Mike Johnson denies saying what he was caught on camera saying

Thursday 31 October 2024 15:55 , Joe Sommerlad

“They” are always “taking things out of context” aren’t they?

I think this reading from Harris’s spokesperson is a lot closer to the truth.

But you can judge for yourself about the House Speaker’s comments on “taking a blowtorch” to the Affordable Care Act by checking the tape below.

In the same interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo this morning, Johnson also insists that this time there really will be a “red wave” on Election Day, which emphatically did not materialise during the 2022 midterms, despite much hype.

Harris continues attack on Trump over latest comments about women

Thursday 31 October 2024 15:40 , Joe Sommerlad

The VP is up and at ‘em early in Madison, Wisconsin, and is not playing around.

Here’s Trump getting annoyed about her remarks in real-time on Truth Social.

Elon Musk fails to show up in court for $1m sweepstakes hearing

Thursday 31 October 2024 15:25 , Joe Sommerlad

A judge in Philadelphia has paused Elon Musk’s case after the billionaire filed a late-night filing to try to move a lawsuit targeting his $1 million sweepstakes into federal court.

Musk blew off his mandatory appearance in a courtroom at City Hall on Thursday morning.

“Elon Musk didn’t show,” an attorney for Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner told reporters at City Hall on Thursday.

“We are going to handle this case, and continue to handle this case… We will proceed to federal court and we will address the issues there and seek to have the matter remanded back to the state court.”

It’s a matter that involves state law, he stressed, “…and I’ll leave it at that.”

Trump loses $1.3bn in net worth after his social media stock tanks

Thursday 31 October 2024 15:10 , Joe Sommerlad

The former president lost $1.3bn in his net worth in a single day after his social media stock took a massive plunge.

The Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of Truth Social, saw its share price decrease by 22.3 percent on Wednesday. That’s the company’s worst one-day loss since it went public in March, CNN noted.

The stock closed at above $51 on Tuesday, with Trump’s stake in the company valued at $5.9bn. That figure had dropped to $4.6bn by the end of Wednesday, a drop of $1.3bn.

Gustaf Kilander has more.

Trump loses $1.3bn in net worth after his social media stock tanks

Watch: Joe Biden bites baby during White House Halloween party

Thursday 31 October 2024 14:50 , Joe Sommerlad

Don’t worry folks, it was all in good fun.

The president, a grandfather of seven, is not really a vampire but was only pretending to sink his teeth into the child, who was dressed as a turkey.

Watch: Joe Biden bites baby during White House Halloween party

Data analyst reveals three obvious signs that Trump could beat Harris

Thursday 31 October 2024 14:30 , Joe Sommerlad

Harry Enten, CNN’s senior data analyst, this week set out the scenario for a Trump victory and outlined the key indicators for if that comes true.

Polls showing voter satisfaction with the direction of the country, President Biden’s current low approval rating and Republican voter registration numbers are three crucial factors to consider in a potential Trump victory, according to Enten.

Rhian Lubin has more.

Data analyst reveals three obvious signs that Trump could beat Harris

Trump’s garbage man stunt ridiculed on social media

Thursday 31 October 2024 14:10 , Joe Sommerlad

I think it’s fair to say the Republican presidential nominee’s latest attempt to cosplay as a member of the working class has had a daily mixed reception.

Not niche enough for you?

Here’s Greg Evans with Star Trek legend George Takei’s take.

Star Trek actor roasts Trump’s garbage truck stunt with one brutal line

Joe Rogan defends pal Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist Puerto Rico joke: It came from him ‘being environmentally conscious’

Thursday 31 October 2024 13:50 , Joe Sommerlad

The influential podcaster has been defending his fellow stand-up on eco grounds, of all things.

James Liddell reports.

Joe Rogan claims Hinchcliffe’s racist joke was him ‘being environmentally conscious’

New Harris ad appeals to Latino voters after Trump comic slams Puerto Rico

Thursday 31 October 2024 13:30 , Joe Sommerlad

The Harris-Walz campaign has launched its new Spanish language advert, “Somos Más,” designed to appeal to Latino voters across the battleground states and capitalize on the anger stirred up by Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist slur against Puerto Rico at Madison Square Garden.

According to the campaign, the promo “spotlights the ambition and contributions of Puerto Ricans to our society, slams Trump’s insults to Puerto Ricans, and reminds them that Vice President Harris will always stand with them”.

You can watch it for yourself below.

Trump ‘considering withholding funds’ for police who refuse to carry out his mass deportation plans

Thursday 31 October 2024 13:10 , Joe Sommerlad

Donald Trump is considering withholding federal police grants to local agencies that refuse to carry out his mass deportation plan, a report claims.

The former president has said that, if elected, he will implement a drastic plan to remove migrants and immigrants who have come to the United States – especially via the US–Mexico border.

In order to make the plan work, members of Trump’s team have floated the idea of holding funds hostage to motivate local police to participate, three people close to his campaign told NBC News.

Here’s more from Ariana Baio.

Trump ‘considering withholding funds’ for police who refuse mass deportations plan

Longtime GOP pollster warns Biden’s ‘garbage’ comment may have cost Harris the election

Thursday 31 October 2024 12:50 , Joe Sommerlad

Top Republican strategist Frank Luntz has warned that Joe Biden’s “garbage” comment could have potentially cost Kamala Harris the election.

The GOP pollster slammed Biden for the “inappropriate” remark and predicted that it could be a “turning point” in the 2024 race.

“I can promise you, this is going to drive Trump turnout,” Luntz told CNN.

“This may be a turning point for those final three percent. That’s all it is who still need to be persuaded.”

Rhian Lubin has more.

Longtime GOP pollster warns Biden’s ‘garbage’ comment may have cost Harris election

Trump aide pushes anti-vax conspiracy live on CNN

Thursday 31 October 2024 12:30 , Joe Sommerlad

Howard Lutnick, co-chair of the prospective Trump-Vance transition team, spoke to Kaitlan Collins on CNN last night and questioned the effectiveness of vaccines in shockingly frank fashion, as though the last four years – or four centuries – had never happened.

On the same network, social media personality Leigh McGowan took the media to task for holding Kamala Harris to account for a remark Joe Biden made while Trump gets away with it yet again, also rebuking the Republican for behaving like a fascist.

She was backed up on that point by Abby Phillip, who duly ran a montage of the candidate referring to people as “scum”.

Kamala HQ turns Trump’s latest sinister declaration into hard-hitting meme

Thursday 31 October 2024 12:10 , Joe Sommerlad

The X account that describes itself as “the official rapid response page of Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign” has wasted no time in going after the Republican for his disturbing pledge to protect women “whether they like it or not” by pointing out the real-life consequences of his war on reproductive rights in the starkest terms possible.

This was Harris’s own response to the same line, incidently.

Trump boasts to crowd no one leaves his rallies early – just as man gets up and walks out

Thursday 31 October 2024 11:50 , Joe Sommerlad

“Everybody watches our rallies, everybody loves our rallies, we never have an empty seat,” Trump declared at his earlier event yesterday in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

“They try and demean us like that horrible, horrible person that I debated when she said ‘and people leave early.’ Nobody leaves early.”

At that very moment, a rally-goer donning a black T-shirt featuring the Republican’s mugshot got up out of his seat and left.

Too perfect.

Here’s Rihan Lubin’s report.

Trump’s boast fails after he says no one leaves his rallies early – as man exits

Harris slams Trump for promising ‘abortion conspiracy theorist’ RFK Jr ‘control’ over public health agencies

Thursday 31 October 2024 11:30 , Joe Sommerlad

Kamala came after the former independent candidate on X late yesterday, warning that him being put in charge of anything is evidence that Trump is “more unhinged than ever”.

Here’s Gustaf Kilander with more on the Republican’s apparent quid pro quo with Kennedy.

RFK Jr, known for his anti-vax views, says Trump promised him control of the CDC

Jimmy Kimmel roasts Trump’s ‘confusing’ garbage truck stunt

Thursday 31 October 2024 11:10 , Joe Sommerlad

“Shouldn’t they have put him in the back of that?” the host quipped.

“The garbage goes in the back”.

James Liddell has more on a gift for late-night.

Jimmy Kimmel roasts Trump’s ‘confusing’ garbage truck stunt

Trump claims he could have beaten George Washington in 2020 but for Covid-19 outbreak

Thursday 31 October 2024 10:50 , Joe Sommerlad

Fox News aired more of the Republican nominee’s dungeon-shot interview with Sean Hannity last night, which found him claiming a fictional Trump-Lincoln ticket could have seen off Big George four years but for that pesky pandemic.

He also offered this flagrant lie about the reception Beyonce got in her native Houston, Texas, last Friday as she campaigned for Harris, insisting the crowd were devastated that she didn’t sing.

Where are the candidates campaigning on Thursday?

Thursday 31 October 2024 10:30 , Joe Sommerlad

Here’s where the main players will be today, with just five days to go.

• Donald Trump will spend Halloween casting his sinister shadow over Albuquerque, New Mexico, Henderson, Nevada, and Glendale, Azirona, with the even ghastlier Tucker Carlson joining him for that last one.

• Kamala Harris will be in Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada, before holding another “When We Vote, We Win” rally in Phoenix, Arizona. Her guests will be Jennifer Lopez and the Mexican pop-rock band Maná in Vegas and Los Tigres del Norte in Phoenix, pointed selections in light of garbage-gate.

• Tim Walz will meanwhile be in Harrisburg and Erie, Pennsylvania, before moving on to Detroit, Michigan.

• Byron Donalds, the Florida Representative, will be leading a Team Trump bus tour in Atlanta, Georgia.

Here’s more on J Lo joining the Harris train in response to Tony Hinchcliffe’s Puerto Rico slur from Rhian Lubin.

J Lo to speak at Harris rally after racist Puerto Rico joke at Trump’s MSG event

Harris shuts down pro-Palestinian protester

Thursday 31 October 2024 10:10 , Joe Sommerlad

The Democrat was also in Wisconsin yesterday and was interrupted during her address in Madison by an activist demanding an end to US support for Israel’s military intervention in Gaza.

Unruffled, the Vice President broke off to silence the heckler, which she did politely but firmly, winning a rapturous reception from the crowd.

Kamala Harris leads Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan in latest polling

Thursday 31 October 2024 09:50 , Joe Sommerlad

The latest swing state polling puts Harris narrowly ahead in Wisconsin and Michigan – but the two are tied in Pennsylvania.

The so-called blue wall states are Harris’s most viable, but not only, path to an Electoral College victory after Tuesday’s election.

Here’s more from Gustaf Kilander.

Harris has edge over Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan – but tied in Pennsylvania

Trump vows to ‘protect’ women ‘whether the women like it or not’

Thursday 31 October 2024 09:30 , Joe Sommerlad

When the Republican presidential nominee finally took the stage in Green Bay, he was still glorying in his garbage man stunt and wearing the vest, which made him look even more like a haunted pumpkin than usual.

But then it was all business as usual, bragging about Madison Square Garden, berating the Wisconsinites who had bothered to show up to support him, raving about BLT sandwiches and lying about immigration and American history before doing his weird double jerk dance to The Village People and heading for the exit.

There was no question what the line of the night was, however…

Trump vows to ‘protect’ women ‘whether the women like it or not’

In pictures: Trump’s preposterous garbage man stunt in rainy Wisconsin

Thursday 31 October 2024 09:10 , Joe Sommerlad

Donald Trump prolongs uproar over Puerto Rico slur by posing in garbage truck

Thursday 31 October 2024 08:50 , Joe Sommerlad

Good morning!

Donald Trump got off his private plane in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday evening and, donning a bright orange high-visibility safety vest, got into a garbage truck in a desperate attempt to troll Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

With Election Day looming, both the Republican and Democratic candidates are hoping to leverage the racist comments made against Puerto Rico at Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday, when comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called the US territory “a floating island of garbage”, potentially alienating millions of Latino voters.

Working hard to dissociate himself from the controversy, Trump has leapt on a gaffe President Biden made on Tuesday in which he responded to the bad taste joke by suggesting the only “garbage” he could see were Trump supporters trashing their fellow citizens.

Trump’s publicity stunt truck in Wisconsin – which he struggled to get into – was emblazoned with his campaign logo and the former president clearly enjoyed leaning out of its window (recalling his recent McDonald’s drive-thru photo-op) to ask the press: “How do you like my garbage truck?”

He then, inevitably, denied knowing anything about Hinchcliffe before being sped around the runway tarmac in circles for no good reason.

Vivek Ramaswamy also got in on the act on his behalf and his supporters appear to have delighted at it as a last-minute Halloween costume idea.

Here’s Oliver O’Connell’s report.

Trump prolongs uproar over Puerto Rico slur by driving garbage truck

Musk ordered to court over potentially illegal $1m election giveaway

Thursday 31 October 2024 08:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Elon Musk has been ordered to appear in a Philadelphia courtroom after the city’s top prosecutor accused the world’s wealthiest person of illegally awarding $1 million to registered voters in the state.

The same day Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner sued Musk and his political action committee this week, the billionaire shared a post on X — the social media platform he owns — that claimed Krasner “knows it’s not illegal but wants a leftist judge to stop it before Election Day.”

That post “immediately triggered an avalanche of posts from Musk’s followers,” including “antisemitic attacks” against the district attorney and threats of violence, attorneys for Krasner’s office told a judge on Wednesday in a push for additional security at an upcoming court hearing.

Alex Woodward reports.

Elon Musk ordered to court over $1 million giveaway after ‘avalanche’ of threats

Harris boosted by major union voter drives in final election push

Thursday 31 October 2024 07:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Vice President Kamala Harris is charging towards election day in full turnout mode, delivering her “closing argument” in a massive rally on the Ellipse while making last-ditch appeals in key battleground states.

As she heads to Reno, Nevada on Thursday for what is likely to be her last visit to the state as a candidate, the vice president’s campaign is leaning hard on support from organized labor in the Rust Belt to shore up her strength there.

John Bowden reports.

Kamala Harris boosted by major union voter drives in final election push

‘Puerto Rico deserves respect’: Reggaeton singer Nicky Jam retracts Trump endorsement

Thursday 31 October 2024 07:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Reggaeton star Nicky Jam has rescinded his support for Donald Trump following the racist remarks made about Puerto Rico at the former president’s recent New York City rally.

The “Hasta el Amanecer” singer, 43, who in September campaigned alongside Trump at his Nevada rally, took to Instagram to retract his endorsement.

Inga Parkel has the story.

Singer Nicky Jam retracts Trump endorsement, says Puerto Rico deserves respect

Watch: Who have Trump and Harris promised jobs to if elected?

Thursday 31 October 2024 06:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Who have Trump and Harris promised jobs to?

Woman told by doctors they couldn’t treat her miscarriage because it was a ‘crime’ died 72 hours later

Thursday 31 October 2024 06:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Josseli Barnica was suffering from a deadly infection from a miscarriage while at the hospital in Houston — but doctors had to wait to treat her due to the state’s abortion ban that limited how much care they could provide her as her baby maintained a heartbeat.

“They had to wait until there was no heartbeat,” her husband told ProPublica in Spanish. “It would be a crime to give her an abortion.”

Kelly Rissman has the story.

Texas woman’s miscarriage care was delayed due to state laws. She died 3 days later

Watch: Trump claims he’ll end inflation and immigration in six days

Thursday 31 October 2024 05:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Trump claims he will bring back ‘American Dream’ – and end immigration in six days

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of this year’s election campaign ads

Thursday 31 October 2024 05:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Eric Garcia writes:

With less than a week to go, campaigns have inundated any state or district with a competitive election with television ads to make their closing argument. This can be especially aggravating, especially after a long day of work where the average voter might just want to watch some mindless reality television or some football.

But in truth, campaigns needs to run ads there to meet voters where they are. This might be why we are seeing more ostentatious ads this election cycle than ever before.

While in her speeches, Vice President Kamala Harris has focused on the danger of Donald Trump’s rhetoric — even going so far as to call him a “petty tyrant” — most of her ads have gone all-in on the economy.

Meanwhile, Republicans, led by Trump, have done a slew of anti-transgender ads, focusing largely on the issue of transgender women in men’s sports.

Continue reading…

The best, worst and ugliest campaign ads of the 2024 election

Harris has narrow edge over Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan but tied in Pennsylvania

Thursday 31 October 2024 04:30 , Oliver O’Connell

In the latest CNN polls of several battleground states, Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin – but the two are tied in Pennsylvania.

The so-called blue wall states are Harris’s most viable, but not only, path to an Electoral College victory after Tuesday’s election.

Gustaf Kilander looks at the numbers.

Harris has edge over Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan – but tied in Pennsylvania

Giuliani bumbles through hearing with sex assault accuser that ends with personal attacks

Thursday 31 October 2024 04:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Rudy Giuliani’s sexual assault case hearing spiraled into chaos for two hours that ended with the former New York City mayor being muted by the judge.

The first oral arguments in the civil suit, brought by accuser Noelle Dunphy, unfolded on Wednesday after a series of delays in the case that was first filed in early 2023. Dunphy, who claims to be his former employee, is accusing Giuliani of wide-ranging misconduct, including sexual harassment, assault, battery and a hostile work environment. The hearing was streamed online and journalists were allowed to watch.

Kelly Rissman reports.

Rudy Giuliani bumbles through hearing with sex assault accuser

Trump vows to ‘protect’ women ‘whether the women like it or not’

Thursday 31 October 2024 03:53 , Oliver O’Connell

Dressed in a bright orange safety vest to troll Democrats in the war of words over comments in which Puerto Rico was called a “floating island of garbage” at another MAGA rally, Donald Trump told a crowd in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday that he wants to protect the women of America – whether they like it or not.

He even admitted that his campaign had told him not to say that, saying that they called it inappropriate. Online, people called it “threatening.”

Read on…

Trump vows to ‘protect’ women ‘whether the women like it or not’

Trump had quite a Wednesday, Harris campaign notes

Thursday 31 October 2024 03:49 , Oliver O’Connell

Ian Sams of the Harris campaign notes that Trump’s comments about protecting women whether they like it or not capped off quite a Wednesday for the former president’s campaign.

Watch: Trump calls Harris ‘low-IQ individual’ but claims he is ‘very nice’ to her

Thursday 31 October 2024 03:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Trump calls Harris ‘low-IQ individual’ but claims he is ‘very nice’ to her

Trump prolongs uproar over Puerto Rico slur with garbage truck stunt

Thursday 31 October 2024 03:15 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump got off his private plane in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Wednesday evening and, donning a bright orange safety vest, got into a garbage truck in an attempt to troll Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

With election day looming, both the Republican and Democratic candidates are hoping to leverage the racist comments made against Puerto Rico at Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday when a comedian called the US territory “a floating island of garbage.”

The truck was emblazoned with the Trump campaign logo and with the former president leaning out of the window similarly to his McDonald’s photo-op, he asked the press: “How do you like my garbage truck?”

Not everyone was impressed…

Trump prolongs uproar over Puerto Rico slur by driving garbage truck

Colorado blunder accidentally exposes voting machine passwords

Thursday 31 October 2024 03:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Voting system passwords were mistakenly put on the Colorado Secretary of State’s website for several months before being spotted and taken down, but the lapse did not pose an immediate threat to the upcoming election, said state election officials Tuesday.

Continue reading…

Colorado blunder accidentally exposes voting machine passwords – officials say its OK

Watch: Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnick goes full anti-vax

Thursday 31 October 2024 03:23 , Oliver O’Connell

Trump ‘considering withholding funds’ from police who won’t carry out mass deportation plan

Thursday 31 October 2024 02:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump is considering withholding federal police grants to local agencies that refuse to carry out his mass deportation plan, a report claims.

The former president has said that, if elected, he will implement a drastic plan to remove migrants and immigrants who have come to the United States – especially via the U.S.–Mexico border.

In order to make the plan work, members of Trump’s team have floated the idea of holding funds hostage to motivate local police to participate, three people close to his campaign told NBC News.

Ariana Baio reports.

Trump ‘considering withholding funds’ for police who refuse mass deportations plan

ICYMI: CNN host laughs at Vance’s explanation over Pence distancing self from Trump

Thursday 31 October 2024 02:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Jake Tapper struggled to contain his laughter when JD Vance offered up his theory for why Mike Pence has now distanced himself from Donald Trump.

In an appearance on State of the Union, the Ohio senator sought to brush off comments from former Trump administration officials who have warned about the risks of a second Trump term.

James Liddell has the story.

Tapper laughs at Vance’s claim for why Pence distanced himself from Trump

Drudge Report mocks Trump over safety vest photo

Thursday 31 October 2024 01:56 , Oliver O’Connell

Trick or Treat indeed…

Happy Halloween 🎃

Here’s the full photo from Getty Images:

Harris confronts pro-Palestinian protesters for third time today and lauds young voters impatient with change

Thursday 31 October 2024 01:49 , AP

At her campaign rally in Wisconsin tonight, Kamala Harris quickly noted her history with Madison, telling the audience that “when I was five years old my parents taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison” and she lived in the college town.

The venue, filled with young attendees, has reached its 10,000-person capacity, according to the sheriff’s department.

Harris has confronted pro-Palestinian protesters at all three of her events on Wednesday, using each interruption to fire up her supporters.

At her rallies in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, a group of people protested on behalf of Palestinians, criticizing Harris for the Biden administration’s handling of the war between Israel and Hamas.

“We all want the war in Gaza to end and to get the hostages out and I will do everything in my power to make it heard and known,” Harris said in Wisconsin. “And everyone has a right to be heard, but right now I am speaking.”

Harris’ supporters erupted at her comment, a reference to what she told then-Vice President Mike Pence during their debate in 2020. The reaction largely drowned out the protesters.

The vice president struck a conciliatory tone in Wisconsin on Wednesday, telling voters she is looking for “common ground” with people who disagree with her and “progress” on problems they face.

“Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe that people who disagree with me are the enemy,” she said in Wisconsin.

One of the loudest cheers of the night came when Harris specifically called out first-time voters and complimented the fact that young people are impatient with change.

“I see your power,” Harris told the audience, earning a roar from the young people. “I’ve lived the promise of America and today I see the promise of America in all of you,” Harris added.

Full story: Elon Musk ordered to court over potentially illegal $1 million giveaway

Thursday 31 October 2024 01:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Elon Musk has been ordered to appear in a Philadelphia courtroom after the city’s top prosecutor accused the world’s wealthiest person of illegally awarding $1 million to registered voters in the state.

The same day Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner sued Musk and his political action committee, the billionaire shared a post on X — the social media platform he owns — that claimed Krasner “knows it’s not illegal but wants a leftist judge to stop it before Election Day.”

That post “immediately triggered an avalanche of posts from Musk’s followers,” including “antisemitic attacks” against the district attorney and threats of violence, attorneys for Krasner’s office told a judge on Wednesday in a push for additional security at an upcoming court hearing.

Alex Woodward has the story.

Elon Musk ordered to court over $1 million giveaway after ‘avalanche’ of threats