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

Kamala Harris agrees Trump’s vision is about ‘fascism’

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.

Key Points

• Trump sits for edited town hall before friendly audience, while Harris interview will be unedited and ‘live to tape'
• Donald Trump to receive further campaign support from Elon Musk in Pennsylvania
• Kamala Harris agrees with Charlamagne Tha God that Trump’s platform is ‘fascist'
• Fox News’s Bret Baier shuts down MAGA supporters fuming over his upcoming Harris interview
• Trump claims illegal immigration is bigger issue than inflation
• Campaign schedule: Who is doing what and where on Wednesday?

[16 October 2024 14:00 · Joe Sommerlad]

Exclusive: Half of Latino voters say immigration will be crucial to their vote

A majority of Hispanic voters believe there is a crisis at the US southern border and the candidates’ stances on immigration will be key in how they decide to cast their vote.

Alicja Hagopian has more.

[16 October 2024 13:40 · Joe Sommerlad]

Nancy Pelosi compares saying Trump’s name to swearing

The former Houser speaker says she considers Donald Trump’s name a swear word and, because she is Catholic, refuses to let it cross her lips.

Katie Hawkinson reports.

[16 October 2024 13:20 · Joe Sommerlad]

The grift continues...

I mean, what can you say at this point?

[16 October 2024 13:00 · Joe Sommerlad]

Stephen Colbert channels inner Biden as he mocks Trump’s dancing town hall

Trump’s weird playlist session in Pennsylvania on Monday night was always going to provide a field day for the late-night comics and Colbert certainly enjoyed himself immensely reliving the run from “Ave Maria” to “Memory” by way of James Brown, Sinead O’Connor and The Village People.

Katie Hawkinson was watching.

[16 October 2024 12:40 · Joe Sommerlad]

MAGA billionaire donates $95m to pro-Trump super PAC

Miriam Adelson, one of Forbes’s top 10 richest women in the world, becomes the largest individual donor to a presidential super PAC this cycle with this giant cash dump to support the Republican cause.

This statement is hard to disagree with:

[16 October 2024 12:20 · Joe Sommerlad]

Watch: Doug Emhoff and Julia Roberts send message to early voters in Georgia

Yesterday saw early voting get underway in the Peach State with a massive, record-breaking turnout, according to secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, and the 100-year-old former president Jimmy Carter living long enough to realise his goal of voting for Kamala Harris.

Here’s what the Second Gentleman and the Hollywood star had to say to encourage the locals.

[16 October 2024 12:00 · Joe Sommerlad]

Colin Allred roasts Ted Cruz at Texas Senate debate

The Democratic Representative running to oust “Cancun Cruz” might just be his party’s best shot at pinching a majority in the upper chamber of Congress this fall.

He certainly did his utmost to portray the chuckling incumbent as a desperate fool peddling “angertainment”.

[16 October 2024 11:40 · Joe Sommerlad]

Elon Musk to return to the campaign trail for Trump

The tech billionaire has said he will give “a series of talks from tomorrow night through Monday” in Pennsylvania on behalf of the Republican ticket, according to Reuters.

This comes less than two weeks after Musk made a fool of himself leaping about like a child and proclaiming himself “dark MAGA” during Trump’s return to Butler.

Musk’s appearances will reportedly be connected to his America PAC political action committee.

Here’s Trump blowing smoke on the subject of his new pal just yesterday:

Rhian Lubin has more.

[16 October 2024 11:20 · Joe Sommerlad]

Trump can’t stop obsessing over Harris’s McDonald’s job. So now he’s off to work the fryer at the fast-food joint

Remember when Tim Walz said this in August?

We may now finally get to see it for real as Trump is set to make a campaign stop at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s on Sunday to prove that it is he, not Kamala, that loves the Golden Arches more.

Instead of chowing down on his 2,400-calorie order of choice – two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish and a chocolate milkshake – the GOP presidential nominee is expected to “work the fry cooker” in a Philadelphia branch, a source familiar with the plan told CNN.

James Liddell has more on a delicious prospect.

[16 October 2024 11:00 · Oliver O'Connell]

Campaign schedule: Who is doing what and where on Wednesday?

Here’s a look at where the main players will be today:

• Kamala Harris is back in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania and recording her interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, which will air on his show this evening.
• Donald Trump is doing another Fox town hall, this time with Harris Faulkner, before taking part in a Univision town hall at Doral in Florida in the hope of cementing his appeal to Latino voters. Harris took part in an equivalent event last week.
• JD Vance has rallies planned in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, North Carolina.
• Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy at a memorial service for Ethel Kennedy at the Cathedral of St Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC, before he and the first lady speak at an Italian American Heritage Month Reception at the White House.