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Caroline Giuliani says Donald Trump ‘destroys everything he touches’ as vice presidential nominees prepare to square up at crucial showdown in New York
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Donald Trump has been attacked by the daughter of his former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who argues the Republican presidential nominee “destroys everything he touches” in an article for Vanity Fair in which she implores voters to support Democrat Kamala Harris instead.
“Watching my dad’s life crumble since he joined forces with Trump has been extraordinarily painful, both on a personal level and because his demise feels linked to a dark force that threatens to once again consume America,” Carolina Giuliani writes.
“It dawned on me that I’ve been grieving the loss of my dad to Trump. I cannot bear to lose our country to him too.”
Harris’s running mate Tim Walz will meanwhile square up to Trump’s vice presidential pick JD Vance on the debate stage on Tuesday evening in what promises to be a hugely consequential and fiery encounter in New York.
For his part, Trump has continued to try to attack Harris and Joe Biden over the federal response to Hurricane Helene, which has wrought havoc in states like Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, having visited Valdosta in the Peach State on Monday.
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‘He’s lying’: Biden hits back at Trump on storm Helene as he announces plans for surveying damage
Lincoln Project calls Vance ‘conniving liar’ who will ‘sane-wash ... Trump’s crazy and dangerous positions'
Anti-Trump conservative group The Lincoln Project has hit out at Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, calling him “a conniving liar who will sane-wash and make palatable all of Trump’s crazy and dangerous positions”.
“Vance is a misogynist who has twisted, dark plans for America to turn women’s rights back 100 years,” said Lincoln Project Chief of Staff Ryan Wiggins. She continued, “Tonight he will lie about Trump’s past, lie about his own support for Project 2025, and deny that he ever believed Trump was ‘America’s Hitler’. The only thing Vance can be counted on is to defend Trump and wear terrible makeup.”
Watch the group’s latest ad here:
Walz and Vance go head-to-head in VP debate tonight, but who will win – and what buzzwords will we hear?
The bets are on ahead of tonight’s vice presidential debate, with bookies rounding up the odds on who will win the showdown: Democrat Tim Walz or Republican JD Vance?
Alicja Hagopian looks at the numbers.
Betting odds as Walz and Vance go head to head in VP debate
Betting websites show stronger odds for Tim Walz winning the debate against JD Vance, while gamblers are also staking money on buzzwords like ‘weird’, ‘cats’ and ‘tampons’ cropping up
Trump claims US election debates against Harris and Walz are ‘rigged’
Donald Trump claimed US election debates against Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are “rigged”. The Republican presidential candidate made his claim to his former 2016 campaign manager Kellyanne Conway in an interview on Fox Nation on Monday (30 September). Trump said: “I would love to have two or three more debates, I like it, I enjoyed it. “But they’re so rigged and so stacked. You’ll see it tomorrow with JD, it’ll be stacked.” Trump also launched into a personal attack on Walz ahead of Tuesday’s VP debate. “He’s going up against a moron, a total moron,” he said.
McMaster ‘doesn’t buy’ Trump’s claims that he can end Ukraine war
Trump's former military guru has pooh-poohed the former president’s campaign trail refrain that he could broker a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia “in one day”.
“I don’t really buy it,” said HR McMaster, who was appointed as a national security adviser by Trump in 2017 and was forced out in 2018, in an interview with CBS News anchor Robert Costa.
“I think it’s a real myth, a real misunderstanding of war, to assume that you can get a favourable political outcome without a favourable military outcome. That’s never really happened in war.
“And so I think the right course of action, if you want to accelerate progress toward a settlement, is to convince [Vladimir] Putin that he’s losing the war. I think that’s the only way you get a favourable settlement.
“How do you do that? You demonstrate our resolve to continue to support the Ukrainians as they defend themselves against this continued onslaught by the Russians.”
Io Dodds has more.
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Walz’s debate spin room surrogates announced
According to the Harris-Walz campaign, these are the Democrats that will be stumping for Tim Walz in the spin room at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City tonight:
- Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
- Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona
- Governor Jared Polis of Colorado
- Governor JB Pritzker of Illinois
- US Representative Jasmine Crockett
- Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison
- Senator Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico
And here’s your reminder of who is in Vance’s corner:
- Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller
- Donald Trump Jr
- Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas
- Senator Katie Britt of Alabama
- US Representative Elise Stefanik
- US Representative Byron Donalds
- Howard Lutnick
Trump GoFundMe for Hurricane Helene victims raises $1.8m
As part of his frankly opportunistic attacks on Biden and Harris over the federal response to the deadly storm that has claimed at least 133 lives in America’s southeastern states, the Republican presidential nominee has set up a GoFundMe page that is already well past its $1m goal.
This gentleman raises a valid point, however.
Trump’s volunteer army struggling to swing election in their candidate’s favour
Republican organizers in battleground states are worried that the Trump campaign isn’t doing enough to drive GOP turnout, as Kamala Harris maintains a roughly three per cent lead in national polls and similar margins in battleground states.
GOP operatives told Politico that the Trump campaign’s tactics to reach voters, relying heavily on super PACs and an army of “Trump Force 47” volunteers to knock on doors and get out the vote, hasn’t made as much of a dent as they would’ve wished in key toss-up states like Michigan and Nevada.
“There’s really no organization,” a Republican operative in Nevada told the outlet.
“He comes out, they scramble to do a rally… but after that, there’s just really nothing else.”
Josh Marcus reports.
Trump’s volunteer army struggling to swing election - and it’s worrying Republicans
The Trump campaign is relying on super PACs and volunteers to drive turnout efforts, an unorthodox tactic
Republicans condemn Trump’s false claims on Harris’ mental fitness
Several prominent GOP members have sought to distance themselves from “insulting” comments made by Trump in which he claimed Kamala Harris is “mentally disabled.”
Many Republicans have urged the former president to “stick to the issues” of his campaign, rather than reverting time and time again to personal attacks on his Democratic rival.
During a rally in Wisconsin on Saturday, Trump claimed Harris was “mentally disabled” and “mentally impaired.”
Here’s more from Mike Bedigan.
Republicans condemn Trump’s ‘insulting’ and false claims on Harris’s mental fitness
Many have urged the former president to ‘stick to the issues’ of his campaign, rather than reverting time and time again to personal attacks on Harris
Harris plotting ad blitz attacking Trump’s ‘concepts of a plan’ on healthcare
Here’s how Kamala is plotting to take the fight to her rival over his inability to offer a coherent policy on one of the most fundamental concerns of American voters.
VP debate could change the course of the election, according to the data
As Republicans and Democrats gear up for the vice presidential debate tonight, exclusive polling reveals the upcoming encounter between Walz and Vance has the potential to change everything.
Two-thirds of Democrats believe the VP candidate has a significant impact on the overall presidential ticket, according to polling from Prolific for The Independent, and three in four Americans say they will be tuning in.
Alicja Hagopian has the details.
Numbers show Vance-Walz debate could change the course of the election
Exclusive: New poll shows the choice of VP has a ‘significant impact’ on two-thirds of Democrats, and 75 per cent of Americans will be tuning in to watch Vance and Walz debate on Tuesday
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