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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Kamala Harris leads Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan in latest polling
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.
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Trump vows to ‘protect’ women ‘whether the women like it or not’
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’
While there were cheers at Trump’s rally, reaction online was less enthusiastic
In pictures: Trump’s preposterous garbage man stunt in rainy Wisconsin
Donald Trump prolongs uproar over Puerto Rico slur by posing in garbage truck
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
Stunt intended to troll Biden and Harris underlines original source of garbage comments as Trump answers reporters’ questions leaning out of vehicle
Musk ordered to court over potentially illegal $1m election giveaway
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.
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Harris boosted by major union voter drives in final election push
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
Union canvassing efforts reach millions of voters as Trump’s populist veneer fades
‘Puerto Rico deserves respect’: Reggaeton singer Nicky Jam retracts Trump endorsement
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
The ‘Hasta el Amanecer’ singer explained that he had originally supported Trump because he ‘believed it was what’s best for the economy’
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Who have Trump and Harris promised jobs to?
Former President Trump has floated some high profile names that could join his administration, like anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and billionaire Tesla and X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk. “Focus on health”, Trump said during an interview with Joe Rogan, while referring to Robert F. Kennedy Jr, alluding to the potential appointment. While Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t named specific individuals, she is promising to appoint a Republican to her cabinet. Here’s who is speculated to join either candidate’s future administration.
Woman told by doctors they couldn’t treat her miscarriage because it was a ‘crime’ died 72 hours later
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.”
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Watch: Trump claims he’ll end inflation and immigration in six days
Trump claims he will bring back ‘American Dream’ - and end immigration in six days
Donald Trump claimed he will bring back the “American Dream” - and end inflation and immigration in just six days. The former US President said he was “thrilled” to be back in North Carolina on Wednesday (30 October), but told supporters he had “one question” to ask. “Are you better off now than four years ago?”, Trump asked. “We are down to six days. In six days I will end inflation and stop the mass invasion of criminals. “I will bring back the American Dream, we’ve not had that in a long time.”
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