Election live updates: Trump sues CBS for $10bn over Harris interview as candidates sweep western swing states
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.Former President Donald Trump urged a New Mexico rally on Thursday to not make him “waste a whole damn half a day here,” by voting for his Democratic opponent.
The state hasn’t voted for a Republican on the presidential level since 2004. Trump suggested that he would win a number of Democratic states as long as the vote was “honest” as he continues to make his false election fraud claims.
With less than a week to go in the US presidential election race, Kamala Harris and Trump are making their final pitches to voters.
The Democratic presidential nominee has 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 his 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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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.
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Watch: LeBron James endorses Kamala Harris
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
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
His long-shot complaint accuses the network of deceptively editing an interview in an ‘attempt to tip the scales’
MAGA fans keep calling Trump’s top team The Avengers. Here’s how the actual Avengers are voting
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
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Trump demands dance break as medics tend to incident at New Mexico rally
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
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
The billionaire posted on X while he was scheduled to be in court over a lawsuit targeting his prize scheme
Republican Larry Hogan believes he can convince Democrats to vote for him as Election Day draws near
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”.
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Michael Bloomberg announces vote for Harris
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.”
Trump claims he doesn’t want to ‘end Obamacare’
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.
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