Trump dunks on Detroit during speech while Obama campaigns for Harris with less than one month until election day: Live

Donald Trump managed to insult another city in a key swing state after calling Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “horrible” earlier this summer

Trump disparages Detroit in speech to city’s business leaders

Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump by four points in the latest Economist/YouGov poll, 49-45 percent, and appears to have pulled ahead with suburban voters according to a new Reuters/Ipsos survey — though one data analyst says the former president’s odds of winning have inexplicably surged.

Meanwhile, Trump has rejected Fox News’s offer to host a final presidential debate between him and his Democratic rival, having also spurned CNN’s invitation to a second contest.

“THERE WILL BE NO REMATCH,” the Republican said on Truth Social. “SO THERE IS NOTHING TO DEBATE.”

In a 2-hour speech for the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday, Trump managed to disparage the city — largest in the vital swing state of Michigan — in the same way he called Milwaukee “horrible” before the Republican National Convention.

Exclusive polling for The Independent has meanwhile indicated that Republicans are tiring of Trump and prefer his running mate, JD Vance, although they consider Democrat Tim Walz more presidential than this rival.

Former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are hitting the campaign trail for Harris, with the 44th president speaking in Pittsburgh on Thursday evening and the 42nd focusing on rural voters.

Key Points

• Trump dunks on Detroit in speech to Detroit Economic Club
• Harris overtakes Trump among suburban voters, latest polling shows
• Donald Trump rejects Fox News debate offer: ‘There will be no rematch’
• Kamala Harris passes $1bn in fundraising since entering the race in July
• Joe Biden calls Trump ‘un-American’ over hurricane relief lies

[10 October 2024 18:26 · Oliver O'Connell]

JD Vance to attend Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally

[10 October 2024 18:05 · Oliver O'Connell]

Trump offers tax breaks to US citizens overseas (but no specifics)

Donald Trump is proposing to grant a key tax break to U.S. citizens living overseas, pitching the idea as an effort to court votes from potentially millions of Americans who could benefit.

The former president and Republican nominee made the pledge in a video released by Republicans Overseas CEO Solomon Yue. Trump was expected to emphasize his idea Thursday during an appearance at the Economic Club of Detroit.

He’s also expected to say he will stop Chinese-produced autonomous vehicles from operating on American roads.

Trump will speak shortly, but for now, here’s the AP with the full report on the tax plan:

[10 October 2024 18:00 · Oliver O'Connell]

Bill Clinton to target rural voters as he joins Harris campaign trail, report says

Citing three sources familiar with the plans, CNN reports that Bill Clinton will be joining the campaign trail from this weekend in support of Kamala Harris.

The network reports:

The former president will seek to appeal to rural voters, among whom polls have shown Vice President Kamala Harris is performing worse than some of the last few Democratic nominees, particularly among younger Black men.

Clinton will start with stops in Georgia on Sunday and Monday, with a bus tour next week in North Carolina expected to follow, pending recovery from the hurricanes.

The emphasis is on counties won by former President Donald Trump. But it’s also on Clinton voters, hoping there are enough left from when he was the last Democratic presidential nominee before Biden to win Georgia in 1992 and that he can reconnect them to a coalition they’ve been steadily dropping out of over the last decade.

Clinton won’t appear at rallies. Going back to a kind of campaigning that he hasn’t done since before he became the “Comeback Kid” in the 1992 New Hampshire primary, Clinton’s schedule is for local fairs and porch rallies, talking to at most a few hundred people at a time.

[10 October 2024 17:50 · Oliver O'Connell]

Latest poll updates: Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump?

Alicja Hagopian looks at how Harris and Trump might fare in November.

[10 October 2024 17:44 · Oliver O'Connell]

As Trump refuses to debate, Harris accepts CNN town hall invitation instead

Kamala Harris will participate in a CNN-hosted live town hall on October 23 in light of Donald Trump’s continuing refusal to face the vice president again on the debate stage.

Harris-Walz campaign chair Jen O’Malley called Trump’s ducking any further debate as a “disservice to the American people” and released the following statement:

Donald Trump’s refusal to join Vice President Harris on the debate stage again is a disservice to the American people. They deserve to see the candidates side-by-side one more time before casting their ballots for one last look at their vastly different visions for America. After backing out of 60 Minutes and doing 27 straight interviews with conservative media, unfortunately it is clear Trump would rather cocoon himself in safe spaces and avoid real questions about his harmful plans and failed divisive leadership. Trump fears another debate where Vice President Harris would hold him accountable in front of tens of millions of Americans.

Trump may want to hide from the voters, but Vice President Harris welcomes the opportunity to share her vision for a New Way Forward for the country. She is happy to accept CNN’s invitation for a live, televised town hall on October 23 in Pennsylvania. This will be a unique opportunity for voters to hear directly from the Vice President on her commitment to be a President for all Americans and her plans to lower families’ costs, protect our freedoms including reproductive freedom, and keep us safe and secure. She will also use this platform to make the argument directly to Americans that Donald Trump will threaten the stability and security of hardworking families, and that a second Trump term is too big of a risk for our country.

[10 October 2024 17:30 · Oliver O'Connell]

Hillary Clinton revels in Trump’s double standard on China

Former secretary of state and Trump rival Hillary Clinton is reveling in Donald Trump’s double standard on trading with China after it emerged that his much-mocked branded Bibles are printed there.

“Perfect,” she declared on X.

Here’s the full story:

[10 October 2024 17:26 · Oliver O'Connell]

Harris leading Trump by four points in latest poll

Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump by four points among likely voters, according to an Economist/YouGov poll released today.

The vice president leads with 49% to Trump’s 45%, while four percent of voters are unsure, one percent support Jill Stein, and one percent support other candidates.

Harris also leads Trump by three percentage points among registered voters — 47% support the vice president while 44% plan to cast a ballot for the former president.

However, five percent of registered voters were still unsure of their choice, while one percent said they will vote for Jill Stein, one percent said they would not vote, and another one percent supported other candidates.

[10 October 2024 17:20 · Oliver O'Connell]

Watch: Trump tells Florida ‘we will come back stronger’ after Hurricane Milton

Donald Trump has posted a video message to the people of Florida following Hurricane Milton.

[Note the big edit at the one-minute mark — who made this? CBS?]

[10 October 2024 17:10 · Oliver O'Connell]

Ohioans know Trump’s claims about immigrants are false — but they still plan to vote for him

Most voters in Ohio do not believe Donald Trump’s racist falsehood that Haitian immigrants are “eating the pets” of Springfield.

But the Republican presidential candidate is still leading Vice President Kamala Harris by roughly six percentage points in the state, maintaining his lead from his 2016 and 2020 victories, according to polling from The Washington Post.

Alex Woodward looks at the latest polling.