Trump and Harris polls tighten with days to go as former president sues CBS News for $10bn: 2024 election live updates
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are out on the campaign trail in Nevada and Arizona this evening as the former files lawsuit against CBS News
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Your support makes all the difference.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.
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Jake Paul endorses Trump
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
Jake Paul admits he’s “nervous” as he reveals his presidential endorsement in a 20-minute video. The YouTube star and boxer posted a video on X, on Thursday (31 October), revealing who he has chosen to support in the US presidential election. The 27-year-old said: “I am nervous and scared to make this video because of what it means in terms of my career and life and people coming after me.” Paul continues: “I don’t know everything but these are my opinions. “Please vote, for the love of God, go exercise your right to vote.” Watch the video above to find out his decision.
Mike Johnson denies saying what he was caught on camera saying
“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
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
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
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.
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Watch: Joe Biden bites baby during White House Halloween party
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
Joe Biden playfully bit a baby during a Halloween event at the White House on Wednesday, 30 October. The US president, 81, pretended to sink his teeth into the child, who was dressed as a turkey. Biden, a grandfather of seven, was handing out sweets to youngsters alongside Jill Biden, who dressed up as a panda for the occasion. The event theme was “Hallo-read” in a nod to the First Lady’s teaching career. This week marks the Bidens’ last Halloween as president and First Lady.
Data analyst reveals three obvious signs that Trump could beat Harris
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.
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Trump’s garbage man stunt ridiculed on social media
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Joe Rogan defends pal Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist Puerto Rico joke: It came from him ‘being environmentally conscious’
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’
The podcaster said he had previously warned Hinchcliffe that the joke is ‘gonna get you stabbed’
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