Election 2024 live updates: Trump to appear on Joe Rogan podcast; Obama slams ‘whining’ ex-president on campaign trail
Kamala Harris is in Washington, DC, recording TV interviews and narrowly leads Donald Trump in national polling with two weeks until Election Day.
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Kamala Harris will appear on NBC Nightly News this evening in an interview recorded in Washington, DC, this afternoon. The vice president also taped an interview with Telemundo.
Donald Trump called her “lazy as hell” for what he perceived as her absence from the campaign trail during a surreal roundtable in pursuit of the Latino vote at his golf club in Miami.
The rambling, lie-filled session concluded with a group prayer during which people laid their hands on the former president before the traditional playout music, “YMCA”.
It is reported that on Friday, the former president will sit down for an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan. The Harris team is said to be in talks for her to appear on the show.
On the campaign trail, former president Barack Obama joined her vice presidential nominee Tim Walz in Wisconsin at a raucous get-out-the-vote rally in which the former president slammed Trump for his “whining”. The Minnesota governor also mocked Trump’s “running mate” Elon Musk for jumping around on stage “like a dipsh*t”.
Later this evening Obama will appear with rapper Eminem in Detroit, Michigan, and on Thursday, he will join rock legend Bruce Springsteen and Vice President Harris in Atlanta.
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Also yesterday, Fox broadcast Trump’s sitdown with Lawrence Jones and a gathering of New York barbers at which he talked about his fantasy of funding the federal government solely through tariffs, pushed his insane lie about forced sex-change operations in schools (which, again, is simply not happening) and claimed that RFK Jr would sort out clean living for Americans because he’s “big into the health food and women things”.
Harris accuses Trump of hiding from her and tells voters: ‘We cannot despair’
In Michigan, Harris appeared alongside Never Trump Republican Liz Cheney and accused her “increasingly unstable” rival of “hiding” by not debating her again, also telling voters: “We cannot despair.”
“We rise to a moment and we stand on the broad shoulders of people who have fought this fight before for our country,” she said, in a rousing moment.
Seeing an opportunity, Trump attacked Harris over her association with Cheney on Truth Social, calling the latter a “Crazed Warhawk” and saying her father’s central role in the War on Terror should deter Arab-Americans from voting Democrat.
Donald Trump loses edge over Kamala Harris on economy two weeks out from Election Day, new poll finds
Trump has lost his advantage over Harris on the economy, with a majority of voters now saying they believe the Democrat is best placed to steward the country and favor her tax and housing policies, according to a new poll.
The survey from Associated Press/NORC gives the Vice President a lead over the Republican on the issue, which the electorate consistently places as the most important of the race, putting her ahead by 46 percent to 35 percent.
However, voters are about evenly divided on whether Trump or Harris is better on prices for everyday essentials like groceries and gas and neither candidate has an edge on jobs and unemployment.
They are also slightly more likely to prefer Trump on the issue of tariffs, which were defined in the poll as taxes on imported goods.
“Do I trust Trump on the economy? No. I trust that he’ll give tax cuts to his buddies like Elon Musk,” said poll respondent Janice Tosto, a 59-year-old Philadelphia woman and self-described independent.
By contrast, poll respondent Amber Moody, 36, from Halifax, Virginia, said she trusts Trump – and Republicans in general – much more on economic matters.
“It seems to me that in my lifetime, every time a Democrat holds office, the economy suffers,” she said.
“Prices go up, taxes go up and the national debt goes up. While I don’t approve of everything Donald Trump says and does, I do believe he is the better choice.”
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