Trump joins town hall with only women in audience; Harris campaigns in Pennsylvania: Election live updates
Donald Trump’s pre-recorded town hall with group of supporters aired on Fox News hours before unedited interview with Kamala Harris to be shown
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Donald Trump will receive a further boost on the campaign trail from tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has announced he will speak at a series of events on behalf of the Republican ticket in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania.
Musk previously appeared with Trump on his return to Butler in the same state, the site of the first attempt on his life earlier this summer.
Kamala Harris is meanwhile gearing up for an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, which will be broadcast on Wednesday evening.
On Tuesday, the Democrat joined Charlamagne Tha God for an hour-long sitdown in Detroit in which she declared she is going to win in November and agreed with the host when he called Trump’s policy platform “fascist”.
Also on Tuesday, Trump took part in a freewheeling Bloomberg Q&A with the Economic Club of Chicago and told a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, that he considers illegal immigration a greater problem than inflation.
This morning Fox News aired a town hall with Donald Trump centered on women voters and hosted by Harris Faulkner that was recorded on Tuesday in front of a friendly crowd of supporters.
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Doug Emhoff and Julia Roberts send message to early voters in Georgia
Kamala Harris set to make surprise appearance on Joe Rogan podcast
Former president Jimmy Carter, 100, voted by mail today
Former president Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 this month, voted by mail today in Georgia.
His family said he was looking forward to voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Georgia smashes records on first day of early voting
A record number of Georgia voters submitted their ballots on Tuesday, the first day of early voting in the state, just as a superior court judge blocked a rule that would have required poll workers to count ballots by hand.
Approximately 320,000 people went to the polls to vote early in Georgia, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. Another 24,000 people have already submitted their absentee ballot.
The previous early voting first-day record was in 2020 when approximately 136,000 ballots were submitted.
Ariana Baio reports.
Georgia smashes records on first day of early voting as hand-counting rule blocked
Election integrity is a point of contention in Georgia, where Trump claimed fraudulent votes cost him the 2020 presidential election
Trump bears responsibility for Jan 6, Jack Smith says in latest election interference filing
Special counsel Jack Smith has responded to Donald Trump’s latest attempt to have his federal election interference case dismissed, shredding the former president’s contention that he bears no responsibility for the events at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The latest filing from Smith states:
Contrary to the defendant’s claim … that he bears no factual or legal responsibility for the “events on January 6,” the superseding indictment plainly alleges that the defendant willfully caused his supporters to obstruct and attempt to obstruct the proceeding by summoning them to Washington, D.C., and then directing them to march to the Capitol to pressure the Vice President and legislators to reject the legitimate certificates and instead rely on the fraudulent electoral certificates. … [A] defendant is criminally liable when he “willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be” a federal offense.
Further:
The defendant also claims that absent an allegation that he engaged in incitement … which in the defendant’s view the superseding indictment “does not come close to alleging,” he can bear no legal “responsibility for events on January 6.” That is incorrect. As described above, the superseding indictment alleges that the defendant willfully caused others to violate Section 1512(c)(2) when he “repeated false claims of election fraud, gave false hope that the Vice President might change the election outcome, and directed the crowd in front of him to go to the Capitol as a means to obstruct the certification,” … by pressuring the Vice President and legislators to accept the fraudulent certificates for certain states in lieu of those states’ legitimate certificates. Those allegations link the defendant’s actions on January 6 directly to his efforts to corruptly obstruct the certification proceeding and establish the elements of a violation of Section 1512(c)(2), which suffices to resolve the defendant’s motion to dismiss on statutory grounds.
Watch: Harris responds to Trump claiming to be ‘father of IVF’
As his campaign gets more chaotic, Republicans think Trump needs to stop focusing on his ‘obsessions’
Republicans are becoming increasingly concerned that Donald Trump is spending more time airing personal grievances and obsessions than talking about Kamala Harris’s policies.
Polling suggests that Trump has an advantage over Harris in many key policy areas, such as the economy, but Marc Short, former chief of staff to Mike Pence during his time as vice president, said he needs to remind voters of his positions.
“[Trump] can make an appeal that gets away from personality and appeals to people who may not like him but do like his policies,” he told the Washington Post.
Gustaf Kilander has the full story.
Republicans think Trump needs to stop focusing on his ‘obsessions’
Trump’s campaign is coming to a free-wheeling, often bizarre, endgame
Armed suspect arrested at Trump rally suing police for defamation
Vem Miller, who was detained and released on bail after being stopped outside Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella at the weekend, is suing police for defamation, among other things, over “deliberate and wrongful conduct and compromised police protocol violating Miller’s constitutional rights for the purpose of promoting and engaging in a meritless and gratuitous sensational story.”
Miller was found with a shotgun, handgun, and fake event passes, police said on Sunday, with the local sheriff going as far as to say a possible assassination attempt on the former president had been thwarted.
He insists he’s absolutely not a would-be assassin, as he toldThe Independent’s Justin Rohrlich:
Armed suspect at Trump rally insists he’s ‘an artist’ — not a would-be assassin
Exclusive: “The pen is always mightier than the sword, which is what I live by,” Vem Miller told The Independent
Trump-backed crypto project sells just 3% of target
A new cryptocurrency backed by Donald Trump has sold just 3 per cent of its allocated tokens following its launch on Tuesday.
The Republican presidential candidate, who claims he will be the first “crypto president”, publicly supported the World Liberty Financial project on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after its WLFI token went on sale.
Despite the endorsement, only $11 million of the $300 million sales target has been reached at the time of writing – 24 hours after the project launched to the public. The website also crashed soon after going live, though it has since been restored.
Anthony Cuthbertson reports.
Trump-backed crypto project sells just 3% of target
World Liberty Financial website also crashed shortly after launch
Trump says he likes Zuckerberg more now
Donald Trump has said he likes Mark Zuckerberg “much better now” that he is “staying out of the election.”
He also told Barstool Sports’s podcast Bussin’ With The Boys that the founder of Facebook had called him after he was shot “and he said ‘that was so brave,’ which was nice.”
Rhian Lubin has the story.
Trump says he likes Zuckerberg more now that he’s ‘staying out of the election’
Trump, who has referred to Facebook as an ‘enemy of the people,’ appears to be warming to Zuckerberg
Watch: Awkward moment where Trump rant is interrupted for commercial break
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